Monthly Archives: July 2016

REVIEW: The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

By Rachel CordascoJuly 3, 2016reviewFinland, Finnish, Grove Press Black Cat, Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun

This is a guest post by Marie Cloutier. Check out her website, The Boston Bibliophile, and follow her on twitter @MarieKCloutier. translated by Lola Rogers Grove Press, Black Cat January 5, 2016 304 pages James Tiptree Jr. Award-winner Johanna Sinisalo takes us on a trip through a reimagined modern day Finland in The Core

REVIEW: Cat Country by Lao She

By Rachel CordascoJuly 1, 2016reviewChina, Chinese, Lao She, Penguin Modern Classics, William A. Lyell

translated by William A. Lyell Penguin Modern Classics orig. 1932; December 1, 2015 240 pages Prophetic and profoundly disturbing, Cat Country is Lao She’s dark speculative satire about one man’s experience with a species of cat-people living on Mars. While on the surface, the story is about the wholesale corruption of Cat society (social,