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In a novel capturing an era that seems at once familiar and grotesque, a New York writer lands in Los Angeles in 1994.Originally published in 1997,...

A novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself. First publishe...

It's 2150, and Eddie Ryan is a prisoner on Mercury, ruled by the qompURE MERKUR: compelling future-history sci-fi by the author of Venusia.Publishe...

A novel that captures the glancing intersections of a loose group of artists and lawyers, restaurateurs, philosophers, wine-makers, and boxers.Havi...

A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the p...

The third of Gary Indiana's famed crime trilogy tells a story inspired by the virtuoso con artistry of mother-and-son criminals Sante and Kenneth K...

Tales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco.T...

In a novel set against a transforming Berlin, an artist confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer.Going to openings and parties, setting up a studio a...

An autobiographical portrait of a gay Arab man, living between cultures, seeking an identity through love and writing.I had to rediscover who I was...

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.Co...

An acidic, satiric novel in the form of a travelogue of the American northwest, complete with annotations by an outraged local."I gazed out my wind...

Sharp, acerbic, and humorous writings that approach psychoanalysis and celebrity on a first-name basis, with subjects that range from Oprah Winfrey...

A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press...

A meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformit...

A collection of stories told through the movies that revisits the lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the 1980s.Mas...

A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.Best kno...

An erotic and darkly comic novel about female friendship, set at the intersection between counterculture and the multimillion dollar art industry.O...

The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón's short stories.Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one ...

Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the ...

A love letter to Paris and a meditation on how it has changed in two decades, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analo...

A novel in essays that locates a “romance” within the mesh of electronic communication.So I didn't call you: instead I posted a new avatar of mysel...

A novel about escape and connection, class, sex, and queer intimacy in the American Midwest.The oldest story: an insider pretends to be an outsider...

An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999.Published in 1999 and awarded that year’s Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from...

The first career retrospective of activist photographer Brian Weil, whose work and practice explored insular cultures.This book offers the first ca...