Today’s Fall Poetry Preview features People You Know, Places You’ve Been by Hana Shafi! The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the everyday connections we make to the people and places we encounter. Despite the infinite variations of our lives, every urban dweller has sparred with a neighbour they disliked, seen beautiful […]
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Today’s Fall Fiction Preview features Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency, translated by Aimee Wall! Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she […]
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Today’s Fall Fiction Preview features Moez Surani’s The Legend of Baraffo! In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a boy named Mazzu grapples to understand the motivations of Babello, a man imprisoned for an act of arson. When Babello begins a hunger strike and another building is set ablaze, tensions mount among the citizens […]
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Today’s Fall 2023 Fiction Preview features Paola Ferrante’s Her Body Among Animals! In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture, and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world “among animals,” where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions. A sentient sex robot goes against her programming; […]
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Today, we are thrilled to reveal our Fall 2023 lineup. Our upcoming season features ten incredible works of fiction and poetry! Read on for all the details, including publication dates, pre-order info, and more. Fall 2023 Fiction My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith Literature in Translation Series | […]
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Our final Preview for the Fall 2022 Season features Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated from Danish by Marina Allemano. Hunger Heart is a sensual, profound book about love, relationships, mental illness, and recovery by one of Denmark’s most celebrated literary writers. In 2009, we published Fastrup’s beautiful novel, Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses (translated by […]
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Today’s Fall 2022 Preview highlights David Dowker’s new, multilayered poetry collection, Dissonance Engine. Amidst poems about loss, melancholy, love, connection, longing and the natural world, Dowker scours the dissonance engine of the media spectacle, to stare into gnostic estrangement and question the “time-sensitive material” of language. “Dissonance Engine is a fantastic machine: part gears, part […]
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For today’s Fall 2022 Preview, we are sharing an excerpt from Tree Abraham’s genre bending non-fiction work, Cyclettes! Part travelogue, part philosophical musing, Tree Abraham’s work probes the millennial experience, asking what a young life can be when unshackled from traditional role expectations yet still living in consistent economic and environmental uncertainty. Text is interspersed between […]
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Today’s Fall 2022 Preview features Participation by Anna Moschovakis! In this latest novel from Moschovakis, acclaimed writer, and winning translator of the 2020 International Booker Prize, two reading groups, Love and Anti-Love, convene digitally amidst political upheaval and undefined environmental catastrophe. Participation offers a prescient look at remote communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants […]
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Next in our Fall 2022 Preview Series is Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato. This collection of lyrical essays—the latest addition to our Essais Series—traces the veins of harm, memory, and meaning amongst ecosystems, and invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. “A […]
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