Translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley (Sheffield, UK: And Other Stories, 2020) Early in Swedish author Andrzej Tichý’s fifth novel, Wretchedness, this reader had the sinking feeling that the narrative would be a latter-day, sentimental retrospective on drug addiction and … Continued
Translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey (Los Angeles, CA: And Other Stories, 2016) A narrator who insists he is not writing the novel in your hands. A character who vehemently objects to being a character, at least in this … Continued
(High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: And Other Stories, 2015) At first glance, the eleven stories in Ivan Vladislavić’s collection 101 Detectives, recently released by And Other Stories, range so widely in style and subject matter, that the book can prove a puzzle … Continued
Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: And Other Stories, 2015) How do we survive in a world so hollowed out that it occasionally devours its own? Makina, the protagonist of Yuri Herrera’s borderlands novel, Signs Preceding the End … Continued
Translated from the Afrikaans by the author (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: And Other Stories, 2015) First signs include sudden onset of fever, fatigue and muscle pain, a sore throat that can be easily confused with the flu. The virus, not living itself … Continued
Translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry and Stefan Tobler (High Wycomb, UK: And Other Stories, 2013) Reading Rodrigo de Souza Leão’s All Dogs Are Blue is like taking an acid-fueled journey into a mystified reality. The novel is about everything … Continued