Vanishing WorldFrom the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x raying our contemporary world to bizarre and troubling effect. Her depictions

Embittered by his lowly position at this late stage of what had once been a promising career

a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater scripts to prose to anything in between

Crime Must Lose

With its nameless protagonist simultaneously proud and afraid of his daunting interiority

Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization

Six radical design cooperatives are featured that resist capitalist thinking in their own way

alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence

and cobalt and sapphire and a calm-calm wata― velvet and kin to the moon brand new

This collection reveals why so many consider Silverblatt to be our greatest reader

It is a biography for today’s age

actress on Lost

Henry "The Smile at the Foot of The Ladder