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What can the black female body be? Pulitzer Prize winner Margo Jefferson asks herself this question in Constructing a Nervous System, an intimate and intelligent account that follows up her acclaimed Negroland.

What if, at the end of your life, a clinic offered you the chance to relive the golden years of your life? This appealing but perhaps dangerous idea is at the heart of Time Shelter, the latest novel by Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize. Come and meet this ‘Proust coming from the East’ for an exceptional evening at Passa Porta.

After the formidable Women Talking, Canadian writer Miriam Toews is back with Fight Night, a defiant portrait of a family struggling to overcome its traumas.