All stills from The Hedgehog (2024). Images courtesy of Zheng Zhi. The author Zheng Zhi’s first novel, Floating, was printed in China in 2007, when he was nineteen years outdated. Since then, he has printed three extra—a fifth will come out this yr—in addition to quite a few volumes of quick fiction, all whereas writing […]

Augusto Monterroso (1921–2003) was an writer immersed within the Western literary custom. His first readings had been of classical authors and the Spanish Golden Age. When he lastly determined to write down, he confronted the problem of being unique in an period when every part appeared to have been written. He fought with the weapons […]