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Madeline Cash “Earth Angel” – Vanessa Onwuemezi “Dark Neighborhood” – Teffi “Other Worlds”
In Madeline Cash’s “Plagues,” God punishes 21st century Southern California with frogs and drone strikes raining down from the sky, Brita filters that turn water into blood, and cows suffering from yeast infections. But these plagues, as horrible as they are, make everyone happy, because each is proof that God is real and has returned…
Kobo Abe “Beyond the Curve” – Patrick Leigh Fermor “The Violins of Saint-Jacques” – Alexander Kluge “Temple of the Scapegoat”
In the Beyond the Curve’s final story, a man walks up a hill. At the point at which the path will turn around the edge of the hill, he stops. He knows he has walked on this road before. He knows he has seen the view from the other side of the hill. He knows…
Will Self “The Quantity Theory of Insanity” – Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights” – Matthew Rose “A World After Liberalism” – Christopher Priest “The Gradual”
“Waiting,” the final story in The Quantity Theory of Insanity, is about Jim, a man in late ’80s, early ‘90s London who is tired of waiting. Instead of sitting in traffic, he becomes a disciple of a motor-courier/prophet named Carlos who “never has to wait” and can visualize all of the city’s “the tail-backs, all…
Horacio Quiroga “The Exiles” – Guido Morselli “Dissipatio HG” – Christopher Priest “The Adjacent” – Yoko Ogawa “Revenge” – Roberto Calasso “The Ruin of Kasch” – Eugène Savitzkaya “In Life”
Thoughts on a few books: The Exiles and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga In these stories, frontiersmen carve out a life in Argentina’s brutally hot Misiones jungle. Although they spend most of their hours hard at work, their mental life is consumed by the dull mid-afternoon hours when heat makes it impossible to do anything…
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Ted Hayden 