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Dennis Cooper became famous in the 1980s for his transgressive fiction about marginalized men. A new biography makes a case for what his works can offer readers now, in our era of deep suffering and infuriating indifference.
David B. Hobbs
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An aging AI researcher, alone with her robot companion, must make a difficult decision when the android begins to malfunction. Short Story
Sumudu Samarawickrama
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Maaza Mengiste’s novels reject grand narratives, instead offering uncommonly intimate glimpses of what it was like to live through the century of war and dictatorship that created today’s Ethiopian diaspora.
Adom Getachew
The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.
Holly Case
In a pre-Giuliani New York where pornographic theaters create communities of dissimilar people, a young blue-collar worker and a homeless ex-con forge a connection through their shared enjoyment of public sex.
Samuel R. Delany
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“Agent Probii’s first days as undercover agent were particularly disconcerting because within the city each resident spoke a different language.”
Yuri Herrera
A radical revisioning of our creative writing programs.
“I wish you had those pills to help. Remember those?”
Zachary Tyler Vickers
Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is being celebrated as the vanguard of a new trans lit. In this interview, Lawlor talks about Paul’s origins, trans identity, and the future of queer literature.
Andrea Lawlor, Spencer Quong
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