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“In all the time I was struggling to nurture my babies, the key to understanding true nourishment lay in satisfying my own body.” Yamini Pathak on motherhood and acts of care. | Lit Hub Food
“When I had extricated myself, and my money, from the villain’s clutches, I turned to find my wife gone from the bench on the platform where she had sat down to wait for me.” Read from John Banville’s new novel, Venetian Vespers. | Lit Hub Fiction
A NOVEL IN GHOST STORIES
From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it’s disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they’re running from are their own…
Daedalus is searching for his son, Icarus, in the Underworld. Along the way, he’s confronted by the ghosts of King Minos, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. The memories they bring and the truth within them, might be too monstrous for him to bear.
“Life has been reduced to an endless cycle of loss and suffering in a system that spares nothing—neither human, stone, nor tree.” Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi reflects on enduring two years of genocide in Gaza. | The Nation
