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Brief EncountersInternational Literature

31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 17: “Dead Set” by Cho Nam-Joo; Jamie Chang, trans.

May 17, 2025May 17, 2025

"Dead Set" is a story that takes direct aim at the punishments that accrue to women in an unfair society.

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 16: “Tomorrow” by William Faulkner

May 16, 2025May 16, 2025

"Tomorrow" is a voice story and its narrative approach is, typical of Faulkner, complex.

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 15: “Passing Through” by Vladimir Sorokin; Max Lawton, trans.

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025

In the Soviet Union, Sorokin implies, the government is able to act in a most atrocious manner, while the minor functionaries who work the factories and offices have to carry shit.

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 14: “The House on the Esplanade” by Anne Hébert; Norma Scott Stoddart, trans.

May 14, 2025May 15, 2025

The critic Delbert Russell referred to the story as "a mordant criticism of the artificiality and emptiness of the life of the haute bourgeoisie of Quebec."

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 13: “Survivor Type” by Stephen King

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

King's accomplishment here is in combining his three levels of fear – terror, horror, and disgust – in a surprising and highly literary manner.

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 12: “The Home Front” by Charles Ardai

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025

From Death Comes Too Late Coincidence is the lifeblood of crime fiction. Anyone familiar with the genre will be aware...

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 11: “Milk” by Anuja Varghese

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025

From Chrysalis The stories in Anuja Varghese’s debut collection inhabit the liminal space between realism and myth. In “Bhupati,” which...

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 10: “The Peacocks” by Yukio Mishima; Juliet Winters Carpenter, trans.

May 10, 2025May 10, 2025

"Peacock killing was not a rupture but the sensual intertwining of beauty and destruction."

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 9: “Burial Ground” by Carleigh Baker

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

From Last Woman In his 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, George A. Romero sets zombies and a group of...

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31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 8: “Progeny” by Philip K. Dick

May 8, 2025May 9, 2025

In the world of Dick's story, efficiency and rationality are paramount.

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