REVIEW: ‘salmonella men on planet porno’ by Yasutaka Tsutsui

No, I haven’t branched out into reviewing erotica. The title of Tsutsui’s collection is apt, however, as it features stories which are always bizarre and frequently feature sexual deviance. Of course, normality and sexual propriety are cultural constructs, and Tsutsui delights in tearing these apart to examine them. Amongst this apparently wanton destruction, the reader […]

July 26, 2020 Book Reviews, Fiction, Satire Read More →

REVIEW: ‘Bullseye’ by Yasutaka Tsutsui

“This isn’t a movie. It’s a short story.” In fact, it’s twenty of them, all written by popular Japanese author, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and selected from a career spanning over fifty years, which he admits is now coming to a close. “The ideas aren’t coming anymore,” he told Andrew Driver, translator of this rather miscellaneous, but […]

March 7, 2020 Book Reviews, Fiction Read More →