More podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Shinjini DeyTitle: Tainaron: Mail From Another City by Leena Krohn, translated by Hildi HawkinsHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx The “Post-Exotic” novels by Antoine Volodine etc- Kree, Mevlido’s Dreams, Postexoticism in 12 LessonsThe New Weird, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeerOn the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara HavelandWonderbook by Jeff VanderMeerItalo Calvino’s Invisible CitiesRenee Gladman’s Houses of Ravicka"Big Dumb Objects"Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern ReachJeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander & Casella’s review"The Look", "The Gaze"Entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre & mystic Angelus SilesiusEmmanuel Levinas & Martin BuberSofia Samatar’s A Stranger In OlondriaNghi Vo’s The City in Glass & Casella’s reviewProtagoras“Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose”Longhorn beetlesJ.R.R. Tolkien’s idea of “sub-creation”Shinjini’s website & twitterHow did I fail to mention TMBG's "Snail Shell"?