Set in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Throughout the story, Delgado-King interweaves the experiences of her own family, involved with Colombian politics since the 19th century and deeply afflicted, too, by the decades of violence there.

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In this sparkling anthology Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey discuss the poems that have moved and enlightened them. Their choices travel over centuries and continents, with poets ranging from Shakespeare and Juana Inés de la Cruz, through William Blake and Emily Dickinson, to Bertolt Brecht, Stevie Smith and Maya Angelou.

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Tale of Ahmed is a gripping fictional account of the dangerous journey of a teenage boy, Ahmed, who travels from Afghanistan, across the Middle East and Europe, to seek refuge in England. Written in the form of an epic poem and richly illustrated by the author, this unusual fable recounts with great sensitivity the Afghans’ sufferings and their courage and resilience in making a grueling passage.

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With Open House, Coover reminds readers that his work is as steeped in literary history as it is forward-thinking experimentation. This tension—between old and new, between a romanticized past and a future we only pretend we can predict—provides the animating tension to Coover’s latest metafiction.

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Elegantly written and charmingly illustrated, The Activist Angler shows how lessons learned from angling can guide political activism and vice versa. Patience, preparation and precision are needed to catch fish . . . and to build a movement. More

Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her funny and charming account of those years, working next to a man described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More

A Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life. More

The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison. More

In encountering Charlie’s tales in this concise and charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent and loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg points out in her introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but only enjoyed as companions.

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TESLA: All My Dreams Are True jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikolas Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker’s own restless, quixotic career.

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Conceived in response to the shocking violence observed in humankind, the project identifies people who have wrongfully died at the hands of others—whether victims of war, hate crimes, or random brutality—and attempts to compensate for the cruelty and pain they faced in life and death.The Compensation Bureau explores the power of individual and collective action, from a writer hailed by The Washington Post as “a world-novelist of the first category.”

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Since leaving her American homeland in 2003 Belén Fernández had been an inveterate traveler. Ceaselessly wandering the world, the only constant in her itinerary was a conviction never to return to the country of her childhood. Then the COVID-19 lockdown happened and Fernandez found herself stranded in a small village on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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It’s tough being an author these days, and it’s getting harder. A recent Authors Guild survey showed that the median income for all published authors in 2017, based solely on book-related activities, was just over $3,000, down more than 20% from eight years previously. Roughly 25% of authors earned nothing at all. Price cutting by retailers, notably Amazon, has forced publishers to pay their writers less. A stagnant economy, with only the rich seeing significant income increases, has hit writers along with everyone else. More

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. More

Set in the last years of the 16th century, Cautivos is a meditation on writing, writers, and creativity. More than that, this short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the body, and therefore also about liberation. More

300 years after it was first published, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe remains hugely influential and hotly debated. Since its initial release in 1719, discussions have surrounded the novel’s depiction of individual solitude and work, colonial and racial relations, and mankind’s relationship with the rest of the animal world. More

Thoughts and Prayers is a beautiful and startling volume of poetry about our political existence. With both humor and luminosity, it gets at the personal and collective emotional experience of American public life. More

Fred W. McDarrah was the ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in the 1960s and 70s, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture when he captured the community around the Stonewall uprising fifty years ago. More

In these short vignettes, Buddhist teacher Cuong Lu shares his insight into the prisoner’s mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. More

Representing the diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, Women of Resistance unites new writers, performers, and activists with established poets to take a feminist stance against the new authority. More

In a breathless cascade of poetry and prose, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. More

Metaphysical Graffiti is a provocative, inflammatory, hilarious, but ultimately serious book about not only the essential questions of rock, but also the deeper, metaphysical roots of those questions. More

This rich selection of writing by the late Mike Marqusee captures the kaleidoscopic mind of a polymath who delighted in deploying one sphere of knowledge to provide exhilarating insight into others. More

London today is embattled as rarely before in peacetime. On one side the city has flourished. On the other, poverty remains endemic. More

Short fiction interwoven with a meditation on the transformative power of the undying work of Samuel Beckett, Michael Coffey’s Samuel Beckett Is Closed is part memoir, part criticism, and part poetry.More

Brutality, corruption, infrastructure collapse, daily threats of war: what’s next? 45 speculative fiction writers share their visions of what’s to come. More

The Digital Critic brings together a diverse group of perspectives—early-adopters, Internet skeptics, bloggers, novelists, editors, and others—to address the future of literature and scholarship in a world of Facebook likes, Twitter wars, and Amazon book reviews. More

From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches across gaping chasms. Leading writers, including Roxane Gay, Lawrence Joseph, Joyce Carol Oates and Edwidge Danticat reflect. More

The first English-language anthology of Tibetan fiction, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, writing in Tibetan, English and Chinese. More

In this stunning book, Bartos’ exquisite photographs of Marker’s studio appear alongside a moving reminiscence of his friend by film theorist Colin MacCabe. More

When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. More

Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset began work on his autobiography a decade before his death in 2012. Now, at last, in his own words, we have a portrait of the man who reshaped how we think about language, literature—and sex. This is Barney Rosset, uncensored. More

Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners await their turn at the hands of their wardens. When they are not subject to unimaginable violence, the condemned tell one another stories about the city, shaded with love and humor, to pass the time. Istanbul Istanbul is a novel about creation, compassion, and the ultimate triumph of the imagination. More

In this richly packed portmanteau of traveler’s tales, we accompany Tom Lutz as he drives beyond the blacktop in Morocco, to the Saharan dunes on the Algerian border, and east of Ankara into the Hittite ruins of Boğazkale. More

Simon Critchley melds personal narratives of how David Bowie lit up a dull teenage life in England’s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way authenticity and identity are turned inside out in the artist’s work. More

In The Strangest, Michael Seidlinger tackles one of the literary classics of the 20th century literature and reimagines it for the 21st: and in Albert Camus’ anti-hero Meursault, at once apathetic and violent, unable to connect with his fellow humans, Seidlinger exhumes a perfect metaphor for the Internet Generation. More

A collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into our corrupted environment to investigate a future bereft of natural environments. More

A collection of stories that range from the very short to the merely short, the forty-four tales in True False evoke extraordinary scenes in an understated manner that’s marked Klee one of today’s most intriguing writers. More

In Watchlist, some of today’s most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. More

Glamour and books don’t often converge, but they did at Rizzoli, one of New York City’s greatest bookstores: a memoir by a writer (and Rizzoli manager) who lived the unchecked, wild life of a young gay man in pre-AIDS, post-Stonewall 1970s New York. More

The stories in Tales of Two Cities mix fiction and reportage to convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side-by-side with people who have a stupefyingly different income. More

Even if you think you don’t know him, you know him. Few in the Hollywood orbit have had greater influence; few have experienced more humiliating failure in their lifetime. Thanks in part to the biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and bearing his name, Ed Wood has become an icon of Americana.
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Sex and knife-fights, stutterers and addicts, losers and lost literary classics: welcome to a raw and genuine island universe closed to casual visitors. More

Using his captivating illustrations and no more than a handful of words, Thomas decrypts some of the most intriguing books of our day for readers of The Rumpus: now seventy-five of his favorites are collected in one volume. More

In this concise and sparkling account of the life and work of America’s most storied writer, National Book Award runner-up Clancy Sigal presents a passionate and persuasive case for the relevance of Ernest Hemingway to readers today. More

In Acorn, renowned artist and political activist Yoko Ono offers intriguing, enchanting exercises to open our eyes on better ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet we co-habit. Throughout the book are drawings by Yoko, many never before seen. More

The collector’s edition of Acorn is bound in cloth, boxed, and signed by the author in a limited edition of 285 copies. More

John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful. More

In this series of interviews with writer and radio host Jon Wiener, Vidal grapples with matters evidently close to his heart: the history of the American Empire, the rise of the National Security State, and his own life in politics, both as a commentator and candidate. More

When Salma was 13 years old her family shut her away, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and sneaking them out of the house. In this book, Salma and acclaimed documentarian Kim Longinotto portray an extraordinary life and the challenges of capturing it on film. More

“… Thornton’s Dr. Bantam is pure Americana, cinematic and idly mean. It’s lush and trashy. I guess it’s the most graphic-novelly feeling book about loss I can think of. It’s all punk heart, messily thudding.” —Eileen Myles More

Louisa May Alcott, author of the classic Little Women, consort of Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne, beloved icon of professors of American 19th-century literature and perhaps less loved by their legions of students, had a lusty side that was less academic, and more . . . transcendental than any of us knew. More

Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny. More

A washed-up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic Communist spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China. More

“Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.” —Dorothy Parker More

Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” More

In Hitler’s Girls, Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey’s wry, atmospheric prose conjures a whirlwind adventure full of international intrigue, subtle humor, and terrifying, timely, political speculation. More