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The Scream
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
‘That supremacist is the idea, in those brothers and sisters of mine, of shyness (which no one understands) being an encumbrance that they should purge as they try to find in their interaction with the world a perfect mixture of disdain, meekness and expansiveness.’
On Stage
Bandi
‘Where emotions are suppressed and actions monitored, acting only becomes ubiquitous, and so convincing that we even trick ourselves.’
Writing While Worried
Fanny Britt
‘Just as it can spur me on, worry is adept at stifling and silencing.’
Life of the Father
Alain Farah
‘Two times is a repetition. Three times is a tradition, or a curse.’ Translated from the French by Lazer Lederhendler.
Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
‘Language is a risk that a nation takes. If a language survives, its people do too.’ Translated from the French by David Homel.
The Battlefield
Dominique Fortier
‘For years, you have been passing through my life; like a comet, disappearing as quickly as you come.’ Translated by Rhonda Mullins.
Boathouse
Jon Fosse
‘It was this summer that the restlessness came over me.’ Translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt.
You Okay for Time?
Kaori Fujino
‘She wants to talk, she wants to unburden herself, but there’s nothing left so all she can do is cry.’ Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Language In Exile
Mireille Gansel
One summer’s day, for the first time, Mitzi broached the past. Past in the present, so present, with everything it had deposited in this room that suddenly seemed so vast. Everything that the grim tide deposits on the shores of a life.
Golgotha
Benoit Jutras
‘Our nation is a spell of nerves and gas. We say yes to monsters, to elegies etched in our palms.’ Translated by Daniel Canty.
From the Left Bank of the Flu
Misumi Kubo
‘The big road looked to me like a river, the cars rushing by as if carried along on its current.’
