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A Perfect Cemetery
Federico Falco
An excerpt from Federico Falco’s story collection A Perfect Cemetery.
The Mob and the Crowd
Noémi Lefebvre
‘The purveyors of legitimate violence are what matter above all’.
An excerpt from the novel Poetics of Work.
House of Flies
Claudia Durastanti
‘The disappointment only spread later, like an odorless gas seeping through the pipes, and the only complaints heard were from old people wandering around anxiously in the fog.’
Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris.
Clara’s Parrot
Hebe Uhart
‘He laughs with a human laugh, a sinister and forceful cackle.’
Newly translated work from the Argentine writer Hebe Uhart.
Selected
Sam Byers
‘Across the country, at any given moment lives are unravelling in rooms of crushing uniformity.’
Fat Bodies
Forsyth Harmon
‘Justine was at my lab table, pulling at the ends of her black bob, shoving her hair into her mouth.’
An excerpt from Justine, out with Tin House Books.
Permafrost
Eva Baltasar
‘This never made sense to Roxanne, whose whole life was a treat.’
Translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches.
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.’
The Scarecrow
Diaa Jubaili & Chip Rossetti
‘Just at the time of the ceasefire between Iraq and Iran in 1988, an infantry platoon discovered that they were in a minefield.’
Translated from the Arabic by Chip Rossetti.
My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
‘I’m not sure I even thought of him as a person, really. He was more just this – phenomenon.’
