Durian Sukegawa

pancakes for his dorayaki

‘Ah, I think…No, I’m afraid it won’t work. I hope you understand.’

‘My name’s Tokue Yoshii.’

coarse sweet bean paste

gong-shaped spoon from which dorayaki took their name: dora for gong, and yaki for grilled.

‘I don’t want to disappoint you, but Toku herself said at the time that she couldn’t actually hear the voices of beans. But if you live in the belief that they can be heard, then someday you might be able to hear them. She said that was the only way for us to live, to be like the poets. That’s what she said. If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.’

Heine and Hakushu Kitahara

ung Kim

The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron (Hebrew)
Translated by Steven Cohen

nslated by Liedewy Hawke

Three Envelopes by Nir Hezroni (Hebrew)

Umami by Laia Jufresa

Cohen

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Spanish)
Translated by Megan McDowell