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Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his life's work - a book that will stand as a towering cathedral to Michel de Montaigne, reframing the inventor of the essay for the modern age. The challenge is the litany of intrusions that bar his way - from memories of his past to the nattering of smartphones to his son's relentless desire to make an electronic dance album. As he sifts through the contents of his de...

These are stories about attempting to outrun time, about trying to remember transfemme pasts, about magic touching everything except the possibility of lasting love." From the beaches of Cyprus to forbidden gardens of discovery to a small town in West Texas, Aurora Mattia weaves dreams of paradises shot through with rot. Her ecstatic, sensuous prose crystallizes into moments of longing and loss, magic and multiplicity-bringing together a cast ...

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Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up another person. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up not a person at all." From the "master of literary horror" (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and "post-human" relationships. Populated by twins stepping into worlds of absence, bears who lick their cubs into creation, and artificial beings haunted by their less-than-human nature, each page sketches...

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The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money’s gone. In 2019, Justin Phillip Reed’s romantic maiden voyage through the waters of American poetry and its communities ran aground in the barrens of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when he found himself with two years of writing time on the horizon and no social context to keep him afloat. In anxiety and estrangement soon deepened by global ...

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In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts, a private school where students disappear and girls give birth to strange creatures. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads to a job offer and launches an inner conflict full of holes and missteps. Ultimatel...

The Romanian-born NPR commentator renews the tradition of the poet as social critic.

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A lavishly illustrated, fun-filled history of the Minnesota State Fair complete with Blue Ribbon recipes!

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Gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction-Henry Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America. Championed by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley, Dumas's fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on real, magical, and mythic quests. Humming wit...

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior: HOMES. Moheb Soliman traces the coasts of the Great Lakes region with poems, exploring the nature of belonging in relation to land and the formation of identity along borders. Moheb Soliman's HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky cliffs of Duluth, Minnesota, to the spray of Niagara Falls and back again. This poetic travelogue offers an intimate perspective on an immigrant experienc...

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These stories confront feminist and anti-imperial subjects such as female friendship and desire, women's relationships to their bodies and those of others, political insurgency, heteronormativity, state violence, and the strictures of economic and social class. Author teaches at Wesleyan and lives in CT, available for interviews and book events Stories are linked together by various characters, making a compelling. throughline/narrative arc th...