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Holding the Skin Girdle

Ange Mlinko: On Olga Ravn, 5 February 2026

The Employees 
by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken.
Penguin, 123 pp., £9.99, November 2025, 978 1 4059 7678 7
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The Wax Child 
by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken.
Penguin, 183 pp., £14.99, November 2025, 978 0 241 75274 6
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... The Danish writer​ Olga Ravn has recently published two short novels, one set in the future and one in the past. Both concern insular societies whose members turn on one another with fatal consequences. The Employees takes place on the Six-Thousand Ship, floating through interstellar space with a crew of humans and humanoids working together on an unclarified mission for an unspecified but interminable length of time ...

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