Taiwan Travelogue by Shuāng-zǐ Yáng, translated by Lin King, won the National Book Award for Translated Literature as well as the 2026 International Booker Prize, two of the largest literary prizes for books in translation. It was also my queer book club’s most recent pick, and it inspired the most passionate discussion we’ve had yet:Read More
Carmella reviews Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
Trigger warning: this review discusses suicide. What do crocodiles and lesbians have in common? Plenty of things, as I learned from Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of a Crocodile. The novel, first published in Chinese in 1994, is a fragmented, broody, and often puzzling coming-of-age tale. The main story is told through journal entries by our narrator,Read More