JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
Prescient visions of the way we live now
Written in the 1970s and 1980s, the manipulation and exploitation described in Izumi Suzuki’s unsettling science fiction has acute contemporary relevance, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
DAZZLING: Izumi Suzuki
[Verso]
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
Terminal Boredom
by Izumi Suzuki
(Verso, £10.99)
IN 1986 Izumi Suzuki, whose work as a model, actor and writer made her a countercultural icon in Japan, committed suicide at the age of 36.
Remarkably, this is the first English-language collection of her fiction but Verso has acquired the rights to all her stories and will publish a second volume in 2022.
This is excellent news because Terminal Boredom is a dazzling book, packed with memorable and unsettling ideas.
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