New Welsh Review 136 (winter 2024)

EDITORIAL by Gwen DaviesEAST ASIAN LITERATURE'The River Claims Its Debt' Story by Phu?c Ti?n, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguy?n An Ly'Powder to the People! The philosophy of Hokkaido capitalist ski bum, Jack Philips' Biography/oral history by Susan Karen Burton'Hi-Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo) Translated from the JapaneseJayne Joso on how Japan shapes her workFURTHER FICTION'The Banana Banshee' Story by Deidre Brennan, translated from the Irish by the authorREVIEW-ESSAYSSteven Lovatt on restoring natural and cultural ecologies in the work of Ruth Bidgood, Rae Howells and Carwyn GravesJL George on trauma and the magical child in recent novels by Lloyd Markham, Carly Holmes and Vajra Chandrasekera