The Liminal Stage: Rym Kechacha’s The Apple and the Pearl Examines the Brutal Alchemy of Art

In the landscape of contemporary speculative fiction, few novels manage to bridge the gap between the visceral physical exhaustion of professional performance and the ethereal, high-stakes danger of folklore as…

The Liminal Stage: Rym Kechacha’s The Apple and the Pearl Examines the Brutal Alchemy of Art

In the landscape of contemporary speculative fiction, few novels capture the friction between the mundane and the metaphysical quite like Rym Kechacha’s latest work, The Apple and the Pearl. The…

The Liminal Stage: Rym Kechacha’s The Apple and the Pearl Examines the Brutal Alchemy of Art

At the stroke of midnight, when the world is held in the silent suspension of the witching hour, a bell tolls thirteen times. It is not the sound of a…