A searching, buoyant novel about queer love, mothers and daughters, and making a life in the face of the only constant: loss.Every story is a love story. In a Barcelona redolent with Almodóvar vibes, the love is between women: overlapping and messy attachments between friends, young lovers, mothers and daughters. As Sara’s mother dies, her daughter is in bed with a new obsession. She’s wracked with guilt, but the persistence of need, the demands of the body, refuse...

Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good – the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive, creative friends – but for all her supposed freedom, her unhappiness means she’s not living up to her side of the bargain. Why, everyone asks, is this not enough?Four hundred years earlier, formidable, irascible Deborah Moody marries...

A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times—young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault. In this home, for this young woman, your assailant is your uncle, and also a police commissioner. The people who shelter you will reject you: your mother is his sister-in-law, your beloved aunt...

**"Hair-raisingly good . . . the plot explodes." – Lily Meyer, The New York Review of Books“Elegant and forceful – I couldn’t put it down.” – Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X** ONE of THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **A pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas — now in English for the very first timeWith echoes of Edith Wharton’s

**Longlisted for the PEN Translation PrizeDiscover 25 remarkable and incandescent short stories by one of Argentina’s greatest contemporary storytellers—now in English for the very first time!**The Scent of Buenos Aires offers the first book-length English translation of Uhart’s work, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated s...

The political poster explosion of July 1936 has been highly acclaimed by critics and scholars worldwide. One of the best-known posters of the time, "Freedom!" – which has acquired near cult status – shows a peasant holding a sickle aloft, set against the anarchist red-and-black flag. The artist, Carles Fontserè, was just twenty years old when he joined the revolution along with fellow artists and comrades-in-arms, Josep Alumà, Helios Gómez, Antoni Clavé and many others who appear in this a...

In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles, Brecht, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson and, most particularly, Euripides. Set in contemporary Sydney, among a fictional underworld family, The Truth about A not only considers the issue of whether to obey the law or your conscience but delv...

'In this story it’s possible to make a beginning and end; it should be understood, though, the lines are arbitrary…' So says Gunnar Abt at the Alexanderplatz police headquarters after the murder of a young communist in 1934. His response raises one of history’s big questions: how do we make sense of the actions of ordinary people under a regime whose unspeakable deeds ensured that there were no longer any ordinary people? Lakeland is a hybrid novel, a fictional recreation told in p...