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Hye-young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell
A novel in which a family’s ordinary life begins to unravel after a small incident, turning bodily change and unstable memory into psychological horror. Its quiet style draws terror out of everyday cracks.
May-lee Chai
This short story collection moves between mainland China and the Chinese diaspora in the United States, tracing the uncertainty of immigrants and their children, family secrets, and tensions shaped by language and class. Small domestic scenes gradually reveal the pain of displacement and the possibility of renewal.
ngel Garca
Drawing on folklore, fantasy, and childhood memory, this poetry collection examines the pressures of masculinity and the vulnerability beneath them. It traces the origins of violence and silence while sketching a self shaped by fragility.
Saverio Ricci
A substantial study of Tommaso Campanella that reads his thought through apocalyptic interpretations of history and the idea of universal government. It follows imprisonment, papal and French contexts, and political conflict to show how philosophy, religion, and power converge in his work.
Uwe Johnson, Damion Searls
Set in New York in 1967, this sprawling novel cycle follows Gesine Cresspahl as she tells her daughter the family history while digging into the memory of postwar Germany. Personal and world history intersect across the flow of a single day.
Kiese Laymon
A frank memoir that uses the weight of the body, secrecy, addiction, and family ties to examine the pressures of living as a Black man. Personal pain opens outward into larger social structures.
David W. Blight
A major biography of Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became a defining orator, editor, and political activist of nineteenth-century America. It follows not only the public hero but also the family life, ideas, and political conflicts that shaped his meaning across time.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan's biography of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, follows the political path that led to the Reform Act of 1832. It combines a vivid portrait of Grey with a broad account of British parliamentary reform.
Ellen Byron
At a Louisiana plantation bed-and-breakfast, floodwaters and Mardi Gras revelry give way to the discovery of an unidentified body. Southern festivity and family-run hospitality connect past and present mysteries.
Perumal Murugan, Aniruddhan Vasudevan
Set in a village in colonial-era South India, the novel follows Kali and Ponna, a couple unable to conceive, as family and community pressure close in around them. They turn to faith and ritual, until a festival where marital rules loosen for one night emerges as a last possibility.
Tillie Walden
This graphic novel moves between a crew repairing ruined structures in space and memories of love and separation at boarding school. With soft color and spacious visual storytelling, it explores friendship, romance, loss, and the desire to find someone again.
Erich Kaestner, Horst Lemke
An autobiographical work that recounts childhood memories with humor and quiet nostalgia. Fragments of life as a city boy are told in a voice that moves between lightness and reflection.