a catalogue of upcoming books = sketches of future reading routes
- Dorothy Tse, Owlish, translated by Natascha Bruce.
- Fitzcarraldo Editions, 23 February 2023.
- Graywolf Press, 6 June 2023.
- Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Tordotcom, 11 July 2023.
- Djuna, Counterweight, translated by Anton Hur, Pantheon, 11 July 2023.
Conceived by Djuna as a low-budget science fiction film, with literary references as wide-ranging as Joseph Conrad and the Marquis de Sade, Counterweight is part cyberpunk, part hardboiled detective fiction, and part parable of South Korea’s neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects.
- Dong Li, The Orange Tree, The University of Chicago Press, March 2023.
Dong Li’s The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and political upheavals into a cinematic account of Chinese history as experienced by one family.