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A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s — his final decade — Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a uniqu

Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.

Stories and legends of a medicine woman banished from her village for being accused of being a witch are told around the campfires.

The first collection of short stories from award-winning author Tim Bowling, exploring childhood, work, and aging.

“One of the best collections I’ve ever read.

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature — a wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. "[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange." — Roxane Gay.

"Ruiz Zafón's visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself."—USA Today.

These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory.

I shall refer to her as Lizard here, but not because of the small lizard tattoo that I discovered on her inner thigh.

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings.

Faulkner examines the changing relationship of black to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.