Ana Paula Maia has once again delivered a bracing vision of our potential for violence
Future Fantasy uses the archive of Vinca Petersen spanning the 1990s to tell the story of an adolescent growing up in a world of contradictions: the traditional expectations of beauty in the modelling industry contrasted with the anarchy and freedom of the illegal rave scene and Vinca’s choice to live on the road
they went to war with institutions (and with each other) and created meaning within a society which was often indifferent to their existence
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situating it as a mode of contemporary
Olga Tokarczuk: House of Day, House of Night Camille Henrot Ana Paula Maia has onceFitzcarraldo Editions, 2025, softcover, 336 pages, 13 x 19. 6 cm A young woman settles in Nowa Ruda, a village in Lower Silesia, a few dozen metres from the Czech border. The communist regime has just collapsed, but that is not the only noticeable change: the surrounding houses, gardens and forests are full of vestiges of the time when the region belonged to another country. Together with her enigmatic neighbour Marta, the narrator accumulates the