Books like Apeirogon
A Palestinian father and an Israeli father, both of whom have lost daughters to the conflict, drive the territory of their shared loss across a thousand numbered fragments.
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Blackouts
A young queer man keeps vigil at the deathbed of an older one, and together they rewrite the redacted margins of a 1940s study of sexual deviance.
Lost Children Archive
A family drives from New York to the Arizona borderlands, the mother to document children caught at the border, the father to record the echoes of the Apache, as their marriage comes apart.
The White Book
A Korean writer living in Warsaw meditates on white things, snow, swaddling cloth, salt, blank pages, as a way to grieve the sister her mother lost two hours after birth.
No One Is Talking About This
A poet's life is split between a pre-internet childhood and the social media hellscape of the present, told in fragments that capture the vertigo of the timeline.
Just Us: An American Conversation
A hybrid of poems, essays, and images documenting Rankine's attempts to hold everyday conversations about whiteness with friends, strangers, and herself.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Linked narratives enter the interior lives of 20th-century scientists and mathematicians at the edge of what knowledge can bear.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Weeks after his wife's sudden death, a Ted Hughes scholar in a London flat is visited by Crow, who says he will stay with him and his two young sons until they no longer need him.
NW
Four Londoners' lives intersect in the northwest neighbourhood of Kilburn, spanning three decades of British class, race, and the stories we tell about our futures.
We Do Not Part
A writer crosses a snowstorm to her injured friend's empty house on Jeju Island to save a pet bird, and finds herself among the ghosts of the 1948 massacre her friend's family survived.
Building Stories
A box containing fourteen pamphlets, books, broadsheets, and foldouts that together form the life of an unnamed woman in a small Chicago apartment building.
DMZ Colony
National Book Award-winning hybrid of poetry, prose, photos, and drawings that confronts the ongoing American war in Korea through translation and witness.
Flights
A constellation of short pieces on travel and the human body, from a woman obsessed with anatomical specimens to Chopin's heart being smuggled home to Warsaw and a man whose wife and child vanish on a Croatian island.