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Category Archives: book
We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)
A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)
Contemporary short stories from Ukraine
Claudine’s House by Colette (France)
Colette’s evocative memoir of a rural, animal-laden and loving French childhood
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)
Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)
Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)
Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon)
Page-turning novel about the often false promises of the American Dream for an immigrant family from Cameroon and a US family with a senior Lehman Bros executive as breadwinner.
My 20 Books of Summer 2022
I’ve chosen my 20 books of summer.
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 