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The Keepers of the Ghost Bird Jenn Dean et al.
THE KEEPERS OF THE GHOST BIRD chronicles the astonishing rediscovery of the Bermuda Petrel, believed to be extinct since 1625. It is the story of a tenacious bird, the men who fight to save them and the unceasing destruction… More
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“Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image Bruce Laurie et al.
Chaotic Freedom is the story of two men transformed for the better through the Civil War. It is also the biography of an iconic photograph. The men are printer and newspaper publisher Henry S. Gere and currier and carpenter… More
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Table for One Yun Ko Eun et al.
In contemporary South Korea, the nuclear family has given way to individual urban living. Yun Ko Eun sharply captures the dissonance of solitary life in a culture that prizes community and family. In an effort to navigate… More
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The Bombay Liaison (is Grateful) Dinika Amaral et al.
In three interlocking stories, Dinika Amaral explores the fantasy and frustrations of post-colonial India. Weaving together the experiences of western visitors, the bustle of a contemporary Bombay marketplace,… More
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Just Another Jihadi Jane Tabish Khair et al.
JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE follows the radicalization of two young girls growing up in a working-class Muslim neighborhood in the UK. Ameena and Jamilla become close followers of a JIhadi matron deeply involved in the… More
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Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It Eduardo Halfon et al.
Eduardo Halfon’s story follows closely the departure of a well-off industrialist Jewish family from Guatemala in the early 1980s. The events are seen from the point of view of the naive, inquisitive ten-year-old… More
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The Leader Nouri Zarrugh et al.
THE LEADER follows three generations of a Libyan family during the reign of Muammar Gaddafi. Moving back and forth in time over the course of nearly forty years, the story traces the ways that violence and repression… More
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The Tombs of Guy Debord Jean-Marie Apostolidés et al.
In THE TOMBS OF GUY DEBORD, Jean-Marie Apostolidés explores the life of Guy Debord, French Marxist theorist, philosopher, and filmmaker, through his theory of “détournement,” originally a form of literary… More
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Night Hands Jen Cross et al.
Jen Cross’s Night Hands is a dark fairy tale that echoes the narrative style popularized by the Brothers Grimm. Night Hands is an exploration of female agency in a dystopian patriarchy reminiscent of Margaret… More
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The Quicksands of Toyne Michael Dahlie
In this darkly funny novella written and illustrated by Michael Dahlie, a young man finds himself in the small village of Toyne in 1974. There to oversee the semi-secret construction of a bomb shelter, he finds himself… More
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Strange Mercies Pete Duval et al.
Pete Duval’s Strange Mercies evokes a world of “plants in oversized pots” and “waxy banana leaves arched over a wrought-iron fence,” a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews,… More
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Coming Home Judith Filc et al.
In her lyric essay, translator Judith Filc brings the reader to various spaces, such as Hart Island and Skid Row, calling into these spaces various names like Jacques Derrida and Anne Carson–awhile weaving her… More
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Torture Jean Améry et al.
Almost eighty years have passed since Jean Améry was taken by the gestapo and interrogated at Fort Breendonk in Antwerp, and yet the world today may not seem much different. In Emory Klann’s new translation, Améry’s… More
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A Short Inquiry into the End of the World: A Mister Investigator Mystery David Stromberg et al.
In David Stromberg’s newest work, Mister Investigator takes on the end of the wor;d—or rather, this fraught and dangerous moment that we find ourselves in, and what it says about our future. This particular moment,… More
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Bird Girl Avital Balwit et al.
When the protagonist of BIrd Girl, whose job it is to find and salvage lost or abandoned scooters, finds a crashed rider along with her errant scooter, her life quickly proves the point of real-world privacy activists:… More
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Cape Cod, Revisited Michael Thurston et al.
“Cape Cod begins with a shipwreck.” So begins Michael Thurston’s new e-book, retracing the steps of Henry David Thoreau’s famous walk, while seeing anew the Cape as it is today. Knowing that… More