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Editor and translator Katy Derbyshire poses the question to ten practitioners and stresses why we need to be talking about it.

As the year comes to an end, our staff, contributors, and board members look back on their favorite international reads from 2021.   Eric M. B. Becker Editor One of my most thought-provoking reads this year came rather late in the year: Natassja Martin's memoir of a harrowing

The new novel from Breasts and Eggs author Mieko Kawakami is relentless in reminding us of the claustrophobia of adolescence

"Heaven" by Mieko Kawakami; Europa Editions (190 pages, $23) ——— For the teenage protagonist of "Heaven," life is hell. We never learn his name, only the cruel nickname he’s been given by his classmates in middle school: Eyes. His “lazy eye” has minor effects on his vision but a major effect on his life, making him the target of vicious bullies. Endlessly taunted and pranked, beaten and kicked, 14-year-old Eyes feels alone in the world until the day he finds a tiny note tucked into his desk: “We should be friends.” That note propels the action of Mieko ...

"Heaven" by Mieko Kawakami; Europa Editions (190 pages, $23) ——— For the teenage protagonist of "Heaven," life is hell. We never learn his name, only the cruel nickname he’s been