Kikuko Tsumura

Dec 31, 2023 | rosselliotbarkan.com | Kikuko Tsumura |Joel Selvin |John McMillan |Ross Barkan

Few technologies have endured longer than the book, and none, perhaps, feel more like an active rebellion against the world we’ve inherited. Parasitic screens are everywhere and it is increasingly impossible to be still, to experience the movement of your own thoughts. Once, the book had few rivals. Then came the radio, the film screen, the television, the personal computer, and, finally, the smartphone. The last poses, by far, the greatest threat to the book’s future.

Jul 18, 2023 | wordchristchurch.co.nz | Melody Thomas |Mélody Thomas | |Kikuko Tsumura

British writer and translator Polly Barton’s work includes translations of contemporary women’s fiction by a range of Japanese writers including the offbeat and dryly funny There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. Her 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize winning 50 Sounds  is an evocative memoir of her encounters with the Japanese language and love of the culture.