Monthly Archives: January 2023

This is a really odd novel, hovering between realist critique and surreal symbolism. The premise is that the protagonist, Shibata, fakes pregnancy out of frustration with her colleagues at work and their sexist demands. Although there is initially some attention paid to the logistics of such a hoax, as the novel progresses, it fades intoContinueContinue reading “Diary of a Void, by Emi Yagi, tr. David Boyd and Lucy North”