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by Ed Park
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by Kim Samek
Published Feb 2026
Read ReviewsTwelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modernity—climate change, unbridled capitalism and greed, an entertainment industry that will go to surreal lengths to stay relevant—in this debut story collection set in a slightly off-kilter version of reality.
by Kaveh Akbar
Published Dec 2024
Read ReviewsA newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in ...
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
by Kim Fu
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsA dazzling and daring debut story collection by PEN/Hemingway finalist, Kim Fu.
by Hiromi Kawakami
Published Nov 2021
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical - "fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre" (Financial Times).
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas...
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