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As formally inventive as readers have come to expect from one of the most daring writers around, and as wild and tricky as its subject matter requires, Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode presents us with a series of essays and poems that playfully, artfully propound Jen Calleja's theory of ‘goblin hood’—a theory that takes in all aspects of pop culture from film, literature and art as well as the author’s personal and original examinations of grief, lust, family histories and the physical fact of living in the world as it is.

A young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur Jaeggy.

Filled to the brim with memorable stories and poignant observations, this memoir is as original and brilliant as the man himself.

In 1519, Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his troops ride into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan – today’s Mexico City – in this hallucinatory, hilarious, colonial revenge story.

A bold and filthy novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico.

A stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation's foremost cultural chroniclers.

A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 - and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media. But beyond the images, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon.

The first volume of the poetic, page-turning masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time.

A small bomb of a novel. Part 3 of Catalonian writer Eva Baltasar's exceptional trilogy.

Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.