Beejay Silcox

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The Bookshelf · Tony Birch & Beejay Silcox review: Inga Simpson/Asako Yuzuki/Helen Bain · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

Tony, thanks so much for joining us to talk books.

Thank you very much.

Tony Birch's books include Shadowboxing, The White Girl and Pictures of You.

He also writes a very fine essay.

Don't go anywhere, though, because critic BJ Silcox is on her way.

Now it's time to welcome writer and critic BJ Silcox into the Bookshelf studio.

That's quite a pile of books you've brought with you.

Oh, hello, Kate Evans.

How are you?

Well, thank you.

Now, look, we've been talking nature writing, dystopias, climate fiction, comic books and sinkholes so far, but you're going to take us to Japanese fiction in translation and the work of Asako Yuzuki.

Now, remind us of who she is and the sort of curious shape of her popularity.

So they didn't believe that she was a big name and had a huge readership outside Japan?

It's also curious because there's been other Japanese writers whose work have been very popular in translation that also have been interested in being a woman in Japan and a sort of feminist take on it.

I mean, I'm thinking of Meiko Kawakami's Breast and Eggs.

Convenience Store Woman, the Sayaka Murata.

And Earthlings, which was another one of hers, which were sort of slightly odd.

There's often a sort of an unusual take on the world.

And so there seems to be a lot of writing about food and bodies and, I don't know, rice crackers and beauty mythology and all of that in a whole lot of these books.

But let's turn to the latest of Asaka Yuzuki's novel to be translated into English.

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