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A comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms’s literary reputation, which grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it. A master of formally inventive poetry and what today would be called micro-fiction, Kharms built off the legacy of Russian Futurist writers to create a uniquely deadpan style written out of and in spite of the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia.

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation. An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the reanimation process erased. With elements of science fiction, horror, political satire and romance, Chicano Frankenstein confronts our nation's bigotries and the question of what it truly means to be human.

Released to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Public Enemy’s landmark album Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black, this graphic anthology begins on the familiar backdrop of 1991 and explodes into far-flung futures with a series of speculative fiction stories by the industry's leading creators.

Responding to the unspeakable in real time, poet Fady Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens—a world filled with ordinary desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may be—and asks their reader to be changed by them. These poems of urgency and care sing powerfully through a combination of intimate clarity and great dilations of scale, sending the reader on heartrending spins through echelons of time. Joudah reminds us, “Wonder belongs to all.”

If traveling to Ireland isn’t in the cards for your summer, consider this charming romance novel about an American woman busking around Europe who finds herself stranded at a pub in Ireland with – you guessed it – a cute bartender. It’s notable for its thoughtful representation of the lead characters’ neurodiversity!

Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. Solito is Javier's story, but it's also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.