Today’s Fall Fiction Preview features As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson, translated by Anita Anand! Caroline is seven when her family flees Pinochet’s regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won’t find them on the plane but wakes to find a new Barbie at her side, her mother preserving […]
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Today’s Fall Poetry Preview features She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner! In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist icon’s friend and former student, Synesius of Cyrene, and scribing Hypatia’s replies in […]
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Happy Women in Translation Month! To celebrate all of the incredible translated works written and translated by women, we’re having a 25% off sale. The sale applies to all titles in our Literature in Translation Series (excluding all forthcoming Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 titles). We’ve also put together a list of some brilliant translated […]
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Today’s Fall Poetry Preview features Vixen by Sandra Ridley! Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence. Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, […]
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Today’s Fall Poetry Previews features Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares […]
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