Excerpt (Fiction)

Sisters in Yellow

Mieko Kawakami, translated by Hitomi Yoshio and Laurel Taylor -

It was a yakiniku joint in the loosest sense of the term, like no other yakiniku I’d ever seen before. Meat, vegetables, sauces so...

Under the Basilisk

Sophie Strohmeier -

Lea would talk often about nuns. Of their rituals, their self-sufficiency. Their separation from our contemporary world may have appealed to her, but more...

Our Dope Future

Tony Tulathimutte -

Waddap! So this is sort of a long one, but I figured all you good folks might help me get a couple things straight...

Why Did The Drowned Man Have Balled Fists?

Kyung-ran Jo, translated by Chi-Young Kim -

A dark object bobbed in the river. The object was not an object but a drowned man in his forties. The news anchor reported...

Flower

Nettie Jones -

Excerpted from the novel Fish Tales by Nettie Jones (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) I think we could say that I was feeling maudlin that early summer night. Six...

Death

Nadia Terranova, translated by Ann Goldstein -

Our empirical experience of death is the disappearance from the physical plane of living beings. Such is the fact of our experience from without,...

My Time, My Side

Lynne Tillman -

During college, I had to invent or reinvent myself every day, create a person who awoke, dragged herself out of bed, and went to...

The Island

Oscar d’Artois -

Excerpted from The Island (Shabby Doll House, June 2024) Translator’s Note Chania, Crete – October 1st, 2027 True, prior to translating this book, I had heard the...

The Possibilities

Yael Goldstein-Love -

I was the last one to arrive, as usual. The six other women were in their folding chairs arranged around the bright green rug...

Worry

Alexandra Tanner -

The cabin air is dry and chemical. Everyone around us is watching My 600-lb Life. Poppy’s head is back and her mouth is open...