Anthologies: general Books

Mapping the Futureoffers new work by all 30 writers supported byThe Complete Works project, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode...

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. 'For the first time since creation,' he predicted, 'man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem - how to occupy the...

Not all dreams come true! While history is written by the winners, the full story of humanity is built on the moments when things went completely sideways; the spectacular screw-ups, monumental mistakes, and explosive errors that paved the way for the...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction. This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish...

We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away?We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as...

The New Year's Eve is more precious than a thousand pieces of gold. It is the Great Divide between winter and spring, which none can pass over without copper and silver.Ihara Saikaku is regarded as Japan's first popular writer. The...

Golden Lotus tells the story of Ximen Qing, a wealthy, unscrupulous merchant who takes the beautiful and ambitious widow Pan Jinlian as his fifth wife. Jinlian is not content to accept her position and schemes to dominate her husband and improve her...

The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Awardwinning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction...

"Literature at the highest level: heartrending, disquieting, fascinating."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Drawing together the best of his short fiction published over the last four decades, Burn Man: Selected Stories showcases Mark Anthony Jarman's...

A lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art.In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in the months before her death in November 2021, Etel...

A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito - part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy.Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear...

The Smut Peddler library of high-end erotic anthologies is a critically acclaimed collection of impeccable pornoglyphics, but where did it all begin? The very first Smut Peddler mini-comics and anthology absolutely revolutionized erotica in comics,...

A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences, gender, and the nature of stories. The Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson's speculative fiction from...

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub...

Vanguard continues their trademark Definitive Reference series with Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist, a sister book to 2022's hit, Frazetta Book Cover Art.While the prior book by illustration and cartooning historian J. David...

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authors.A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she...

Too often, science fiction and fantasy stories erase - or cure - characters with disabilities. Soul Jar, edited by author and bookstore owner Annie Carl, features thirty-one stories by disabled authors, imagining such wonders as a shapeshifter on a first...

The capacity to tell stories - along with language and the ability to create art - is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we've forged narratives of our origins, our journeys and our dreams as a means of...

An August 2023 Indie Next Pick, selected by booksellers A Vogue Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A WBUR Summer Reading Recommendation A Next Big Idea Club's August 2023 Must-Read BookAn astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and...

This is thefirst-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-gardemovement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 19211927. Zenithism'sfounder Ljubomir Mici envisioned the movement as a fusion of futurism, dada,constructivism,...

An elevated, gifty anthology of love letters from history's most passionate romantics. This beautiful volume features love letters from a variety of people throughout history, including Heloise and Abelard, Henry VIII, Margaret of Valois, Napoleon...

Once every generation there is a Chosen One, who will stand between humanity and darkness.But why is the Chosen One so often a teenager? Why do only children get swept through portals to save the fantastic world on the other side? Whose idea was it to...

In this anthology of microliterature over forty writers explore the theme of play - from carefree diversions to fateful games of chance. Here you will find talented writers playing seriously with words, revelling in irreverence and debunking received...

From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists, many anonymously. Most of these pornographers...

The Havah's Journey trilogy-Please Say Kaddish for Me, From Silt and Ashes, As One Must, One Can-abridged into one illustrated volume with bonus stories.No one can forget the bravery and perseverance of Havah Cohen Gitterman, the Jewish heroine of...

Edited by Rebecca Brewer, formerly of Ace/Roc (Penguin Random House), Giving the Devil His Due features sixteen major names and rising stars in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror today. 'In Giving the Devil His Due, sixteen of speculative...

In Drawing/Breath: Inhales and Exhales on Body and Word, PEN/Bellwether Prize-winning writer Gayle Brandeis' essays explore both the writing life and the embodied life, along with potent intersection between the two. From the title essay investigating...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential modern Japanese writers. He is known as 'the father of the Japanese short story' and 'Rashmon is his best-known work. Presented with a new...

The most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature, the KonjakuMonogatari Shu is as integral a part of its nation's culture as Canterbury Talesand The Inferno are of ours. In Japanese Tales from Times Past, the editors andtranslators have...

First published in 1686, Five Women Who Loved Love was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan. And the novel's popularity has, if anything, increased with the years, making it today a classic like Boccaccio's...

This modern classic, written in 1913, was the source for the highly acclaimed film, The Mistress In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against the background of the...

Through the lens of horror - from Halloween to Hereditary - queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community:...

Inspirational Wisdom for Every Day in a Classic Daybook-"An excellent gift . . . A fine inspirational" (Midwest Book Review)During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and...

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, "CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and...

From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For...

Tales of tentacles, terror, and madness from the publisher who brought youWastelands, The Living Dead, andBrave New WorldsFirst described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhumythos encompass a pantheon of truly existential cosmic...

Spirits surround us in the latest Illuminated Edition: a tome of all the Japanese ghost stories and strange tales collected and translated by author Lafcadio Hearn and depicted by the majestic brushwork of artist Kent Williams.Brimming with over sixty...

We are surrounded. A wealthy man hunts the kaiju that killed his daughter on an island inhabited by mega-fauna. They are everywhere. By the light of a campfire a young girl shares the true story of the epic brawl that caused Hurricane Irene. There is no...

In her opening, Amy Wright explains: "This essay anchors a central thread of dialogue over a dizzying divide. It weaves a decades-plus-worth of questions and answers from a range of discussions I've had with artists, activists, scientists, philosophers,...

Including 2022 Caine Prize winning story "Five Years Next Sunday" by Idza Luhumyo, 2022 Nommo Award shortlisted story "Shelter" by Mzobi Haimbe and 2023 O'Henry Prize for Short Fiction winner "Mother" by Jacob M'hangoThis genre-spanning anthology...

Age range 12+In this collection of evocative, unnerving slice-of-life horror, five stories explore what happens when one is desperate enough to seek solace in the unnatural, and what might be waiting for us at the Crossroads at Midnight.An old woman...

"Embraces death as a concept with due complexity." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review Death - the one aspect of life we all have in common - is waiting for everyone, yet our practices, beliefs, myths, and stories about it are as diverse as we are. YOU...

"Emotive, thoughtful, and revealing." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (Starred Review)A comics anthology about an Earth where anyone and everyone has access to the stars!Six months from now, detailed schematics anonymously uploaded to the Internet will...

Winner of the PEN Translation Prize"Pondering revolutionary Cuba, the Berlin Wall, and the caves of Cappadocia, these essays explore themes of memory, war, movement, and home."-The New Yorker"A thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and...

Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in...

Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an over-the-top, transcendental psychedelic thriller ride of pulpy goodness in THE OBAMA INHERITANCE, a collection of fifteen stories of conspiracy noir curated by editor and award-winning...

A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and...

This long overdue anthology of New Narrative includes both classic New Narrative texts and rare supplementary materials, allowing the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to bound back to life, ripe with dramatic...