Non-fictionFor the past thirty-odd years, Hideo has worked exclusively in Japanese, publishing several novels and collections of criticism and essays. Why Japanese? is a question he is often asked. It harbours a kind of suspicion: why would a native speaker of the English language, the language of power and prestige and capital ... give it all up in favour of a comparatively minor language, a marked and ethnicised tongue?

PoetryWe pause in front of a fallen eucalypt blackened trunk glistening with charcoal grids decode species-information: the time of its seeding and the intensity of the fire which consumed it.

FictionI FIRST MET Sal in the winter of 2019. I was in Sicily. He was sitting at a café. Spoke to me in English. Hey buddy, could you spare thirty cents? New York accent. Maybe habit, addressing people in English. Yeah, I said. What...