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The Rat Snipers
Ben Lasman
‘When they stand on their hind legs, arms up, wrists limp, rats can take on a beguiling sort of personhood.’
Stratford Marsh
Esther Kinsky
‘Estuary English, the tongue of the river mouth, open vowels, clipped syllables that nonetheless spilled into one: I found it hard to listen to. The words snapped at my ears: malicious fish.’
Cold Mountain: Premières esquisses
Andrée A. Michaud
Ce qui s’est passé par la suite relève de la folie, folie des vents s’entredéchirant, folie de l’homme que ces vents avaient poussé chez moi.
Cold Mountain
Andrée A. Michaud
What came after was the stuff of madness, the madness of warring winds, the madness of the man these winds had delivered up to me.
Lagomorph
Alexander MacLeod
‘It is important to establish, before this begins, that I never thought of myself as an animal person.’
The Initials
Alex Leslie
‘There was no inquiry and no report either because we all have new names now.’
The Fjord of Eternity
Lisa Moore
‘Insurance fraud of the sort Trisha investigated involved perps who were dentists with erectile malfunction, men who were scarfing anti-depressants and hit a wall.’
Blameless
Claudio Magris
‘People think they’re destroying, but it’s hard work, nearly impossible; building is easy, illusory but easy.’
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr
Tom Lee
‘As it was, this gave the impression of two different faces, two different people, welded savagely together.’
White | State of Mind
Han Kang
‘I was told that she was a girl, with a face as white as a crescent-moon rice cake.’ New writing from Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
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.’