Prose and Cons

Letters to Milena Is Less Romantic Than You Think
Letters to Milena Is Less Romantic Than You Think
Kafka and Milena wrote to each other for years, and yet they spent only five days together, the rest of their relationship existing solely on paper. Letters to Milena is... Read more...
Hatching a Heroine — A Review of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Hatching a Heroine — A Review of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
It feels almost ridiculous, at first, to be so emotionally undone by a hen, and yet, that is exactly what happened to me here. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could... Read more...
When Life Gives You Apples — A Review of Three Apples Fell From The Sky
When Life Gives You Apples — A Review of Three Apples Fell From The Sky
And three apples fell from heaven: One for the storyteller, One for the listener, And one for the eavesdropper   Before Three Apples Fell From The Sky has even begun,... Read more...
The Glass Ceiling Is Dripping In Blood — A Review of Blood Over Bright Haven
The Glass Ceiling Is Dripping In Blood — A Review of Blood Over Bright Haven
words by Millie Harris   What do we mean when we say a city is advanced? Do we mean that its machines run, its scholars are knowledgeable, the lights are... Read more...
What Is a Woman Without Men?
What Is a Woman Without Men?
In Sharnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men, a woman becomes a tree, another dies twice, and a third finds herself looking at men without heads. It is an utterly bizarre and... Read more...
When the past does not stay in the past — Celeste Mohammed’s Ever Since We Small
When the past does not stay in the past — Celeste Mohammed’s Ever Since We Small
Celeste Mohammed’s Ever Since We Small begins with a woman who refuses to die in the way she has been told she must. Jayanti is a young widow in India, expected... Read more...
A Mess-merising Story: Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje
A Mess-merising Story: Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje
What does it mean to have a ‘once in a lifetime’ love and still walk away from it? Lidija Hilje tackles this question in her debut novel Slanting Towards the... Read more...
Ghassan Kanafani’s 'Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories'
Ghassan Kanafani’s 'Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories'
To read these stories is to recognise how sharply Kanafani articulates a long stream of violence that has been felt for years, and how personally he renders it on a... Read more...
Can a file ever hold a person? On Lea Ypi’s Indignity
Can a file ever hold a person? On Lea Ypi’s Indignity
words by Millie Harris   When a photograph of Lea Ypi’s grandmother, Leman, was posted on social media by a total stranger, she becomes determined to discover who her grandmother... Read more...
Hamnet wants to break your heart. Does it earn it?
Hamnet wants to break your heart. Does it earn it?
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Reading Isabel Cañas’s The Possession of Alba Díaz
Reading Isabel Cañas’s The Possession of Alba Díaz
Isabel Cañas' third novel, The Possession of Alba Díaz, is a half psychological thriller, half body horror gothic novel that draws inspiration on the violent history of the land. Read more...