Readings, September/October 2026

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Readings 2026

Fiction Bora Chung’s Your Utopia (translated by Anton Hur) was the first book I finished this in September. Before leaving for Canada this summer, I’d been partway into it—having gotten in signed by the author after sitting on a discussion panel with her—so after returning, I dug in again as soon as I got the chance.   I think the story that stuck with me most after finishing the book was “Seed,” though “The End of the Voyage” also hung around in my mind quite a long time afterward. They’re rather opposite stories, in some ways: “Seed” is hopeful and radical, …

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Readings, May/June 2026

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Readings 2026

May and June of 2026 were pretty good for reading! I we finished up some of those translations projects I mentioned last month, and though more have come in, with a lot more free time available I was able to finally do some serious reading! I remain stalled out on reading Sir Thomas Malory’s Complete Works (edited by Eugène Vinaver), which is funny since the RPG I was reading it for inspiration for has played out and ended. Even so, I’m trying to get back into it, one chunk at a time. In the meantime, below the cut I’ve only …

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