Author archives: author

Infinités

by Vandana Singh
  • “Faim” ★★★
  • “Delhi” ★★★★
  • “La femme qui se croyait planète” ★★★½
  • “Infinités” ★★★½
  • “Soif” ★★★
  • “Les lois de la conservation” ★★★
  • “Trois contes de la rivière du ciel” ★★★
  • “Le tétraèdre” ★★★½
  • “L’épouse” ★★★
  • “La chambre sur le toit” ★★★½
  • “Un manifeste spéculatif” ★★★½

Real Sugar is Hard to Find

by Sim Kern

Especially in the first half the writing is not a pleasure to read, but I appreciated the imagination.

  • “Real Sugar is Hard to Find” ★★★
  • “The Listener” ★★★½
  • “The Propagator” ★★★★
  • “The New Nomad” ★★★
  • “The Night Heron” ★★★
  • “Tadpoles” ★★
  • “Unwhole” ★★★★
  • “What Can’t Be Undone” ★★★★
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Miss Muriel and Other Stories

by Ann Petry
  • “Miss Muriel” ★★★½
  • “The New Mirror” ★★★½
  • “Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?” ★★★½
  • “The Migraine Workers” ★★★½
  • “Mother Africa” ★★★
  • “The Bones of Louella Brown” ★★★★
  • “Olaf and His Girl Friend” ★★½
  • “Like a Winding Sheet” ★½
  • “The Witness” ★½
  • “Solo on the Drums” ★★
  • “The Necessary
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Eleven

by Patricia Highsmith

Beacons of unpleasantness

  • “The Snail-Watcher” ★★½
  • “The Birds Poised to Fly” ★★½
  • “The Terrapin” DNF
  • “When the Fleet was in at Mobile” ★★½
  • “The Quest for ‘Blank Claveringi'” ★★½
  • “The Cries of Love” ★★
  • “Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes” ★★
  • “The Heroine” ★★
  • “Another Bridge to Cross”
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