New Welsh Review 136 (winter 2024)

EDITORIAL by Gwen Davies





EAST ASIAN LITERATURE





'The River Claims Its Debt' – Story by Phước Tiến, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý



'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 Japanese



Jayne Joso on how Japan shapes her work





FURTHER FICTION





'The Banana Banshee' – Story by Deidre Brennan, translated from the Irish by the author





REVIEW-ESSAYS





Steven Lovatt on restoring natural and cultural ecologies in the work of Ruth Bidgood, Rae Howells and Carwyn Graves



JL George on trauma and the magical child in recent novels by Lloyd Markham, Carly Holmes and Vajra Chandrasekera