"Flames" from Territory of Light by Tsushima Yuko - Short Story Summary, Analysis, Review
Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! We are working through the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories and have arrived on "Flames" by Yuko Tsushima. We didn't realize this was a chapter in the collected novel "Territory of Light." What do you g…
Episode #3: Woman Running in the Mountains, by Yuko Tsushima
Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Yūko Tsushima's 1980 novel Woman Running in the Mountains (tr. Geraldine Harcourt) and chat about their recent reading.
For our next episode, we will discuss Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Books mentioned:
Woman Running in the Mo…
Episode #184 - Andor Anticipation & Acolyte Spoiler Zone
In this episode, we start off with our media recommendations (Star Wars stuff starts around 30 minutes in)!
Rachael’s recommendations:
Jacquot de Nantes, dir. Agnes Varda
A Man Escaped, dir. Robert Bresson
Braid, dir. Mitzi Peirone
The Man Who Haunted Himself, dir. Basil Dearden
Xan…
Episode 4 - Literary Foreground, Comics Playground, with Tana Oshima
In the comics medium's ongoing quest for respectability, the 21st century has seen a proliferation of so-called literary comics: buttoned up, digestible, "realistic" -- comic strips cosplaying as New Yorker stories.
Today's guest, Tana Oshima, explodes any ideas a reader might have about what …
Most Anticipated Reads of 2025 (January to April): Part 2
Here are some more books we are looking forward to reading in the first quarter of 2025, including long-awaited sequels, telepathic sloths, complicated sister relationships, pawnshops and more. Books mentioned on this episode: Malinalli by Veronica Chapa, The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, t…
Three Percent #181: Unraveling Women and Hard-Working Peasants
A bit of an experimental episode, Chad is joined by five indie booksellers to talk about the "new normal," fears of reopening, what booksellers are doing now, and—most importantly—actual books. The complete rundown of recommendations is below, but one note: please buy these titles from the booksell…
First Draft - Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Born in Tokyo, and raised in Texas, she is the co-translator of Ryke Akutagawa’s Kappa and the translator for Yuko Tsushima’s Wildcat Dome. She lives in New York City.
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Episode 86: Fiction (Novels by Llosa, Tsushima, Adiga)
The Feast of the Goat by Peruvian-born Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Territory of Light by Japanese author Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt
Amnesty by India-born Aravind Adiga
February Book Club with Michelle Steinbeck: Femicide, Family Estrangement & The Writer/Translator Relationship
For our February Book Club episode Hannah was joined by author Michelle Steinbeck to discuss her latest novel Favorita, which you can buy here. Favorita was translated by writer/translator Jen Calleja, you can follow her work here. In this episode, Hannah and Michelle discuss the writer/translator …
The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading
How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among the literary set? Since the English translations of Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” series were first published in the United States in 2024, they …
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