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The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas S nchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology... Read More about How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank)

A tender fable about overcoming loneliness and welcoming new possibilities. A giant stands on the shore of a secluded city: a place where no trains pass through, where you can hear the sound of birds, and the air smells of bread. What would happen if the giant entered the city? Would the people wel... Read More about Giant on the Shore

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s debut novel If We’re Being Honest is the snappy, smart, heartwarming story of the Williams family, and the sweltering summer that rewrote their history.When Gerry, the beloved Williams patriarch, dies sud... Read More about If We're Being Honest: A Novel

A concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought.Pragmatism, America’s homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns a... Read More about Pragmatism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Mario Bellatin's complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly infectious disease begins to spread, afflicting its victims with an excru... Read More about Beauty Salon

WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS--ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST No Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from S o Tom to appear in English, is grounded in the lush islands' history of slavery, colonialism, and independence. A career-spanning ... Read More about No Gods Live Here: Poems