Our critics' picks for August include a sci-fi debut set in futuristic Melbourne, a 50s queer love story, and the latest from the author of Booker nominee Room.
The final piece, by Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun, concludes the anthology on a painful but affirmative note, reminding us that no matter how much we have lost in the past few years – to COVID, to distance, to racism, to police violence, to intergenerational pain — we still have each other.
Tao-Yi and Navin are two of the people in that queue. Their heads are shaved and they have goggles and gloves to protect them from the pollution and heat. Back home, the Neupod will take them to the safer, cleaner digital world of Gaia, where they can work, shop, eat and party – all while appearing as the avatar of their choice.
When the opportunity arrives to fully "upload" to Gaia – leaving the real world behind altogether – it drives the couple even further apart. Given the history of colonialism, the relationship we have to language is invariably complicated. As Cairo-born literary translator Nariman Youssef and researcher Gitanjali Patel write in Violent Phenomena, "many translators of colour do not have a 'heritage language', or may be estranged from it as a result of colonial legacies, conflict, or assimilation pressures".
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