The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine Gu Qian

The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine Gu QianLevreros writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher like grammatical maze of The Boarding House to the Lewis Carroll esque The Basement, this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re inventing narrative possibility. Stories that play with space, an absurd space when looked at with logic. And that is exactly

but there is no standing aside

Viktor is angry about the injustices he sees around him

but massive population growth in the middle years of the nineteenth century brought with it many problems

and grew up in Manchester

Natiq Khaloosy

purposing contingency as a major mechanism of racialisation but also as a source of resistance and refusal

often inspired by her travels abroad

messily bound together in the unique

Sage blends meditations on animals familiar and strange

Is she exploiting her privileges as a white writer when she tells stories about Black people

First published in Chile in 1943

Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time