"The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the author of The River Always Wins and I AM A TEACHER. Every day, posits …
This memoir of one man's coming of age through the civil rights movement follows the author from his innocent childhood in the 1950s to his awakening as a full-time organizer in the Deep South, and the st…
"Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with Amer…
A new poetic form from Fiston Mwanza Mujila, lauded author of novels Tram 83 and The Villain's Dance and poetry collection The River in the Belly.
Kasala Poems are rooted in a traditional form of praise p…
"The Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as Congo-Kinshasa or DRCongo, has had a series of names since its founding. The name of Zaire best corresponds to the experience of the novel's character…
"The poems in Love Training are intimate in focus and scale: taut and contemplative, they ruminate on family, exile, romantic love, and the vagaries of human perception. Love Training, which gathers poems…
"From Scarsdale is an evocative and lyrical memoir of a haunted childhood in Scarsdale, New York. With a cancer diagnosis in his early forties, the author is compelled to revisit and resolve the mystery o…
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.
Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel fol…
Originally published under title Xilase qui riâe di' sicasi riâe nisa guiigu' / La nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los râios in 2007 by Escritores en Lenguas Indâigenas.
"A collection of poetry from acclaimed yet underrepresented Kurdish poet Farhad Pirbal. Like that of his contemporary Abdulla Pashew, Farhad Pirbal's poetry is a chronicle of exile and displacement, longi…
"From Kurdish poet and writer Farhad Pirbal, a heartbreaking collection of short stories. Each tale in The Potato Eaters underlines "otherness", or isolation and displacement in contemporary society. His …
"From the famous Mexican author, Sergio Pitol, comes his 1988 classic translated by George Henson. Taming the Divine Heron, tells the semi-autobiographical story of a novelist working on his newest master…
"A book of poetry meant to conjure the future while nourishing the present, Julie Poole's second collection is inspired by movement within a Texan cityscape. Written 2016-2017 during a taut political mome…
Sally Mara’s Intimate Diary, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous andmeaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When ‘Sally Mara’begins her …
"The poems in Because You Previously Liked or Played explore a world that is increasingly mediated through technology; the personal and political struggle for meaning, connection, and reality runs like a …
"Written with profound beauty and a clear, distinct voice, Once in the Blue Moon is a unique book presenting a young girl's point of view on a crucial turning point in her family's life in rural, World Wa…
From “one of our great artists of catastrophe” (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther—an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning…
"A novel of man's relationship with nature, power, and the vitality of storytelling, from beloved Thai author Saneh Sangsuk. The lovable, yarnspinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last…
The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Cobra (1972) recounts the tale of a tr…
"In the inner sanctum of an elite boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider. In 1960, St. Philip's School, a famously exclusive boys boarding school, grudgingly a…
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