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We Had To Remove This Post
Does what you see change who you are? Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts need to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins to shift Kayleigh’s world in alarming ways. In the glare of the screen, how long can Kayleigh hold on to her humanity? Hanna Bervoets' stunning novel We Had To Remove This Post is translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault. ‘This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today . . . Fascinating and disturbing’ - Ling Ma, author of Severance
The Dream Merchant
Josh Cope is just an average boy, so why is an international corporation calling him and insisting that he come and work for them - Josh soon finds himself caught in a nightmare world somewhere between dreams and reality.
Ivanov
'Ivanov is Hanna Bervoets op haar best: een bizar verhaal met realistische, aansprekende personages beschreven in buitengewoon scherpe zinnen. Bijna-sciencefiction wordt afgewisseld met adembenemende beschouwingen.' - HP/De Tijd Moskou, 1922: De tsaar is verdreven, de bolsjewieken hebben de macht gegrepen en de vooruitstrevende wetenschapper Ilya Ivanov heeft één droom: een hybride wezen kweken, half mens, half aap. New York, 1944: De aidsepidemie is op een hoogtepunt, de stad wordt geteisterd door bedbugs en de jonge homoseksuale Felix van der Elsken komt aan in de stad om te worden wie hij altijd wilde zijn. Het lukt Felix alleen niet zijn draai te vinden, tot hij virologe Helena Frank o...
Amsterdam Noir
This anthology of new noir fiction set in the Dutch capital “features superior writing from authors largely unknown to an American audience” (Publishers Weekly). From its numerous coffee shops where drugs are openly available, to its world-famous Red Light District where prostitutes display themselves in shop windows, Amsterdam is a city where almost anything goes in broad daylight. And yet, this serene city of canals has its dark side as well. In fifteen tales of greed, jealousy and revenge, some of the finest Dutch crime writers—including literary award-winners and international bestsellers—explore the seamy shadows of this historic city. Amsterdam Noir features brand-new stories by: Michael Berg, Anneloes Timmerije, Murat Isik, René Appel & Josh Pachter, Simon de Waal, Hanna Bervoets, Karin Amatmoekrim, Christine Otten, Mensje van Keulen, Max van Olden, Theo Capel, Loes den Hollander, Herman Koch, Abdelkader Benali, and Walter van den Berg, whose story "Get Rich Quick" won the inaugural Literatuurprijs Nieuw-West award.
HOME IS ELSEWHERE: An Anthology
The Reader Berlin presents Home is Elsewhere, an anthology showcasing ten unique writing talents. Virginia Woolf said that a room of one's own was prerequisite to producing good writing. In 2017, The Circus Hotel generously offered one author their own luxury apartment in the heart of Berlin for a one-month residency – and the 2017 Berlin Writing Prize was on! The Reader Berlin invited submissions from both published and unpublished writers resident anywhere in the world on the theme Home is Elsewhere. Our aim was to promote fresh, original writing and provide a platform for emerging writing talent. Judges included award-winning author Irenosen Okojie, author and creative director Michael Salu, SAND editor Florian Duijsens, writer and publisher Paul Scraton, and The Circus Hotel's own Katrin Schönig. This anthology brings together the ten brilliant winning pieces, chosen from the hundreds of entries submitted. Alongside competition winner Dolores Walshe, are runners up Alissa Jones Nelson, Jodie Noel Vinson, Pippa Goldschmidt, Daisy Johnson, Amy Lee Lillard, Sophie Mackintosh, Lizzie Roberts, Sharlene Teo and Lei Wang.
How Are We Going to Explain This?
There’s a new story in the making, one in which the consequences of our actions add up—and every contribution is meaningful. If climate change is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced, then why are we doing so little about it? And where do we go from here? Journalist Jelmer Mommers knows most people prefer not to talk or even think about climate change, and that is exactly why he wrote this book. Denial and despair are not the only possible responses to the current crisis. Drawing on the latest science, Mommers describes how we got here, what possible future awaits us, and how you can help make a difference. Five years in the making, How Are We Going to Explain This was an instant bestseller in the Netherlands. With this revised and updated translation, including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mommers brings his unique blend of realism and hope to the wider world.
The Heaven of Animals
A first collection by an award-winning writer features characters at relationship crossroads in such stories as "Lizard Man," in which two men race to save a sick alligator; and "The End of Aaron," in which a girl helps her boyfriend face his greatest fears.
Ivanov
Moskou 1922: de bolsjewieken hebben de macht en een wetenschapper droomt van een hybride wezen, half mens, half aap. New York anno 1994 onderzoekt een virologe naar hiv en stuit op het werk van de Rus In ‘Ivanov’ weet Hanna Bervoets op soepele wijze de bizarre maar waargebeurde geschiedenis van de Russische held Ivanov te vermengen met de memoires van Felix. Moskou, 1922: De tsaar is verdreven, de bolsjewieken hebben de macht gegrepen en de vooruitstrevende wetenschapper Ilya Ivanov heeft één droom: een hybride wezen kweken, half mens, half aap. New York, 1994: De aidsepidemie is op een hoogtepunt, de stad wordt geteisterd door bedbugs en de jonge, homoseksuele Felix van der Elsken komt aan in de stad om te worden wie hij altijd wilde zijn. Het lukt Felix alleen niet zijn draai te vinden, tot hij virologe Helena Frank ontmoet. Zij onderzoekt de oorsprong van het hiv-virus en is geobsedeerd door de fameuze kruisingsexperimenten van Ivanov. Felix is op zijn beurt gefascineerd door Helena en haar jongere assistente Lois, en raakt verstrikt in een gevaarlijke driehoeksrelatie: wat wil Helena van hem, wat wil hij eigenlijk van haar? En welk geheim verbergen de twee vrouwen?
The Days of Bluegrass Love
Tycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it – school, friends, girls, plans for the future – just kind of ... happens. Like a movie he presses play on, but doesn't direct. So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to spend his summer as a counselor at a summer camp, for international kids. It is there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway. And it is there that Tycho feels his life stop, and begin again, finally, as his. The Days of Bluegrass Love was originally published in the Netherlands in 1999. It was a groundbreaking book and has since become a beloved classic throughout Europe, but has never been translated into English. Here, for the first time, it is masterfully presented to American readers – a tender, intense, unforgettable story of first love.
Bad Island
A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerising, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.
