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Anne-Marie the Beauty

Yasmina Reza

An excerpt from the playwright’s new book.

Orientation

Ben Pester

‘Graham is telling the woman that he is Orientating you. The woman in the blue cardigan looks at you and nods very solemnly.’

A story from Ben Pester’s Am I in the Right Place, available now from Boiler House Press.

Travellers Inside the Marquee

Eudris Planche Savón

‘Katherine Mansfield has just stolen my chance to begin a conversation.’

Fiction by Eudris Planche Savón, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

Days of Ruin

Aniela Rodríguez

‘From the sea you came, and into the sea you were condemned to disappear.’

Fiction by Aniela Rodríguez, translated by Sophie Hughes.

Lost Children

Irene Reyes-Noguerol

‘The Girls sees. The Girl hears. The Girl says nothing.’

Fiction by Irene Reyes-Noguerol.

Ten Thousand Steps

Rupert Tebb

Winner of the 2021 Disquiet Prize for Fiction.

The Walker

Izumi Suzuki

A newly translated story from the late Japanese writer.

I’ve Been Away for a While

Dan Shurley

‘When the world releases him from its oily grip will there still be a world?’

In Bright Light

Paul Dalla Rosa

‘The hard thing, as Alice saw it, was that something bad had happened to her and it was private and then it wasn’t.’

My Phantoms

Gwendoline Riley

‘I’m not sure I even thought of him as a person, really. He was more just this – phenomenon.’

Asylum Road

Olivia Sudjic

‘She’d blinked at me kindly and said it must be sad when your country no longer exists, then returned to pulverising her asparagus.’

One Hundred Years and a Day

Tomoka Shibasaki

‘After a while people’s faces began to fade, and they came to seem like hoards of noppera-bō, faceless spirits gliding by.’

Two stories by Tomoka Shibasaki.

A Ghost in Brazil

Kikuko Tsumura

‘I was ever so keen to visit the Aran Islands, but unfortunately, I died before ever making it out of Japan.’

Nocturne

Yūshō Takiguchi

Jesse Kirkwood’s translation of ‘Nocturne’ by Yūshō Takiguchi is the winner of the 2020 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize.