Young Kim

Young Kim is a writer who works in art, fashion, film, music, and literature while managing the estate of Malcolm McLaren, her late boyfriend and creative/business partner. Her first book, A Year On Earth With Mr. Hell, is distributed by Omnibus Press.

Rock and Troll

“Dear Dickhead” by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne

Dear Dickhead is the new novel by one of France’s most celebrated contemporary writers, the so-called punk Virginie Despentes, who came to literary fame as a twenty-three-year-old in 1993 with her first novel Baise-moi (usually translated as “fuck me”). Despentes is a Gen-X French version of Diablo Cody. Since creating

VOLUME 3: ISSUE 2
WINTER 2025

Familiarity

‘Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop’ By Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan

Bloomsbury, February 2024, 320 pp. Like all first signs, it was easy to dismiss. Even more so since it came from an English teenage model. I was hanging out with her godmother during Paris fashion week about five years ago. As we left an event and passed a scrum on

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 4
WINTER 2024

This Bad Girl

‘Hit Parade of Tears: Stories’ By Izumi Suzuki

VERSO, APRIL 2023, 288 PP. THIS NEWLY TRANSLATED collection of Izumi Suzuki’s short stories first published more than forty years ago is jaunty, odd, violent, femme-centric, funny—but what strikes me most is its freshness. A few charming period details (the presence of a Walkman, cassette tapes, a rotary phone, the

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 2
SUMMER 2023