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Category: David Boyd

[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Unanswered Questions of Balance: Hiroko Oyamada’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑒” by Tyran Grillo

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Hiroko Oyamada. Hiroko Oyamada (author), David Boyd (translator), The Hole, New Directions Publishing, 2020. 112 pgs. As a…

Jul 13, 2025
[REVIEW] “A Senseless Menagerie: Hiroko Oyamada’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦” by Tyran Grillo

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Hiroko Oyamada. Hiroko Oyamada (author), David Boyd (translator), The Factory, New Directions, 2019. 128 pgs. Hiroko Oyamada’s The Factory weaves…

Mar 2, 2025
[REVIEW] “Reimagining the Void: Emi Yagi’s 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑉𝑜𝑖𝑑” by Lucy Hamilton

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Emi Yagi (author), David Boyd and Lucy North (translators), Diary of a Void, Viking, 2022. 213 pgs. Shibata works for a cardboard tube company on the fourth floor of an overheated office.…

Sep 20, 2024
[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Some Sort of Enclosed System: Hiroko Oyamada’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦” by Jane McBride

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Hiroko Oyamada. Hiroko Oyamada (author), David Boyd (translator), The Factory, New Directions, 2019. 128 pgs. The cover is what first…

Mar 19, 2024
[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Reading on Slow Quiet Days” by Joefel Bolo

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Hiroko Oyamada. I have had this feeling of being quiet and alone recently, since graduating from university, with the pressure…

Dec 7, 2023