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Brief reviews of What You Are Looking for Is in the Library; The Love of Singular Men; Hostages of Memory; You, Bleeding Childhood; A Little Luck; and Mild Vertigo

Natsumi lives in a modern flat in Tokyo with her husband and two young sons, her life comfortable but circumscribed by the tedium of household chores. Washing dishes in the sink, she finds herself transfixed, gazing at the ‘rope of water’ falling from the tap, twisting like a snake: ‘There was something Sisyphean in the

In Mieko Kanai’s 1997 novel, newly translated into English, a wife and mother’s monotonous days are punctured by quiet revelations.

Stream-of-consciousness sounds so easy, but there is something more spatial happening here.