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Johanna Hedva
JOHANNA HEDVA is the author of the novel, ON HELL. Their collection of poems and essays, MINERVA THE MISCARRIAGE OF THE BRAIN, will be published in September 2020. Their essay, ‘Sick Woman Theory,’ published in MASK in 2016, has been translated into six languages, and their writing has appeared in TRIPLE CANOPY, FRIEZE, BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, and ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW. Their work has been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Performance Space New York, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Their album, THE SUN AND THE MOON, was released in March 2019, and they’re currently touring BLACK MOON LILITH IN PISCES IN THE 4TH HOUSE, a doom metal guitar and voice performance influenced by Korean shamanist ritual. Their novel, YOUR LOVE IS NO GOOD is out in May 2023 from And Other Stories.  

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‘They’re Really Close To My Body’: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck

Essay

Issue No. 27

Johanna Hedva

Essay

Issue No. 27

‘We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say “I”. This is what we must yield up to God.’ — Simone...

Book Review

October 2019

She, Etcetera

Johanna Hedva

Book Review

October 2019

Every brainy queer of my generation, especially those born under the sign of Saturn, went through a phase where...

Vigdis Hjorth is a pretty big deal in Norway She has written thirty-seven books, the majority of them novels, but Will and Testament is the first to be published in English translation by a trade publisher in the UK, and only her second novel to be published in English translation It has just been nominated for a National Book Award It is not surprising that her long overdue breakthrough is happening with this novel, now Not only was it a bestseller in Norway, and nominated for some of the region’s biggest prizes, it also kicked off a scandal that turned into yet another nationwide discussion about truth in fiction    Hjorth’s translator Charlotte Barslund mostly maintains Hjorth’s direct, occasionally abrupt, prosaic language and skilfully conveys Hjorth’s long sentences and inner monologues, so key to an author who takes readers deep into the psyche of her protagonists Arriving in English translation, the novel comes packaged with a slight sheen of Scandi noir and is promoted with the – familiar – tagline, ‘A terrible secret’ Much of the discussion around it has centred on Hjorth’s own family story, and how it relates to the novel But whether or not Hjorth’s novels are autobiographical is one of the less interesting questions about her work Anglophone readers are finally introduced to a writer at the height of her powers, a deeply political author who combines blunt critique of the country and society she lives in with an investigation into the personal failings of its supposed intellectual elite    Both Will and Testament and Hjorth’s previous novel, A House in Norway, feature a narrator who works in the arts, has grown-up children and a partner she doesn’t live with; who drinks a lot of red wine and has a tendency towards angry nocturnal outbursts; who goes on holidays in Europe (Spain, Germany), references classic psychology, Central European and Norwegian writers, and left-wing politics Both narrators may or may not be Vigdis Hjorth; what is certain is that Hjorth always starts from a personal point,

Contributor

March 2018

Johanna Hedva

Contributor

March 2018

JOHANNA HEDVA is the author of the novel, ON HELL. Their collection of poems and essays, MINERVA THE MISCARRIAGE...

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Fiction

Issue No. 21

Johanna Hedva

Fiction

Issue No. 21

After The Eliza Battle, I went to Berlin to recuperate, to nurse my pride. I had been there many times at that point, since...

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Prize Entry

April 2017

Abu One-Eye

Rav Grewal-Kök

Prize Entry

April 2017

He left two photographs.   In the first, his eldest brother balances him on a knee. It must be...

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Issue No. 2

Gay Madonnas in Montevergine: The Feast of Mamma Schiavona

Annabel Howard

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Issue No. 2

We are crowded into the medium-sized piazza before the sanctuary of Montevergine. There is no town or village; it...

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October 2012

Crown of Thorns Starfish

Caspar Henderson

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October 2012

If you look into infinity what do you see? Your backside!  –Tristan Tzara   The drug-addict, drunk, wife-shooter and...

 

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