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Creative Surgery is Italian author Clelia Far­ris‘s debut collection (with translations by Rachel Cordasco and Jennifer Delare), and it’s a great start. The first story, “ A Day to Remember” is an extended meditation on living in a world that feels much smaller when circumscribed by cli­mate change. We follow an artist in a post-flood Italy as she tours her community by boat, barter­ing for what she needs while altering people’s memories to their preferences. They’re disrupted literally overnight by an extreme freak weather event, and we repeat the tour at speed as we see how ...

A group of graduates throwing graduation caps in the air Crime by Vanda Carson Premium Content Subscriber only A Pakistani student who has been living in Australia on student and bridging visas for more than eight years without barely finishing a single course has failed in his bid to stay in Australia on a third visa after a tribunal found his main aim was to live in Australia and not to study. Federal Circuit Court Judge Greg Egan last week upheld a ruling by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) that student Saqib Noor's failure to complete a sing...

Samovar, published a duet of stories. “ The Curtain Falls, The Show Must End” by Julie Nováková (translated from Czech by the author) is a historical drama set at the eve of WWII. Two backstage workers in a theater in Prague conjure up ghosts, which proceed to haunt and torment the latest production. That is combined with political pressure around the company’s pro­duction choices and staff, so tensions run high. The director casts about for an exorcist, but the best they can do is a retired playwright who knows something of exorcism techniques. This is a moving story featuring real...

Sabrina Ratté simulates extinct ecosystems with her Floralia series A series of installations, featuring sound design from Andrea-Jane Cornell, that will premiere at the Centre Pompidou as part of Hors Pistes Festival. By utilising a mixture of photography, 3D animation and analog technologies, Canada-born, Paris-based artist Sabrina Ratté investigates the interplay between surroundings and subjectivity. Her practice includes video, animation, installations, sculptures, audio-visual performances and prints, all of which function in service of a multidisciplinary exploration of space, both d...

Sea Change), and even the political-satirical side of Charles Stross ( Dead Lies Dreaming). Climate change, international business/poli­tics, and an alphabet-soup artificial-intelligence/virtual-reality computational-communications infrastructure all contribute to the environment in which Ava Arnette operates. Ava – ex-army, ex-Honolulu police department – works as a security officer for the Kahanamoku Coastal Authority (KCA), monitoring a Waikiki tourist zone rebuilt and reinforced after the massively destructive Hurricane Nolo scoured `Oahu nine years earlier. The interests served by t...