Equivocality

(English translation by Natasha Wimmer)
This is a truly dirty book, in that almost every one of its short vignettes contains some sort of sweaty, often grotesque sex. The author is a pervert, and not a terribly creative one, really – there’s far more illuminating writing on sex elsewhere. That’s fine. The sex is merely […]

I just had mint tea with an old Berber woman.
She wore a deep blue blouse, and a black velvet skirt. Around her head was a dark shawl with gold threads woven through it. The palms of her hands and the soles of her feet were almost black with henna. There were ornate rings on her […]