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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.
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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.
In the Dream House
A memoir of an abusive relationship with another woman, told in short chapters that each borrow a different genre or trope, from haunted house to choose-your-own-adventure.
Biography of X
After the death of her wife, a famous and secretive artist known only as X, a journalist sets out to write her biography, in an alternate America that was split apart after World War II.
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.
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.
Speedboat
A young New York journalist narrates the 1970s in loose, dry, jumpy paragraphs about parties, assignments, and the peculiar etiquette of being alive in the city then.
Ilustrado
A young Filipino writer in New York investigates the death of his mentor, a famous exiled novelist pulled from the Hudson, and his own story tangles with fragments of the dead man's work.
Float
Twenty-two loose chapbooks in a clear slipcase, essays, lectures, librettos and poems, that can be read in any order and float against each other.
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.
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.
Autobiography of Red
A novel-in-verse reimagining of the Greek myth of Geryon as a queer red-winged boy falling in love with Herakles in the modern world.
Notes of a Crocodile
Lazi, a lesbian student at National Taiwan University in the late 1980s, keeps notes on her loves and her friends, broken up by the story of a crocodile in a human suit.