Book of Mutter

Author	Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
ISBN	0544944607

A feisty heroine’s quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature—even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love.
 
Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn’t fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in...

Author	Ross Gay
ISBN	1616207922

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...

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Anne Boyer

Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed...

Author	Alexander Chee
ISBN	1328764524

From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.

As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...

Author	Renee Gladman
ISBN	1940696275

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." —Eileen Myles

A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original...

Author	Nathalie Léger
ISBN	0993009301

First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. Loden’s 1970 film Wanda is a masterpiece of early cinema vérité, an anti-Bonnie-and-Clyde road movie about a young woman, adrift in rust-belt...

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Joanna Walsh

In this “novel in essays,” Joanna Walsh simultaneously flees and pursues an ambiguous partner in an affair conducted mostly online. Traversing Europe, she awaits emails and texts and PMs, awash in her dreams, offering succinct meditations on connection and communication. If Marguerite Duras...

Author	Cristina Rivera Garza
ISBN	6074213585

¿Es cierto que el desamor, como el amor, un buen día se va? ¿Qué hacen las fauces de un lobo en la historia de un hombre, una mujer y un bosque? Una detective reconvertida en escritora vuelve, después de mucho tiempo y bastantes fracasos, a aceptar un caso que puede resarcirla y que, en el fondo, la seduce:...