文化人类学、政治经济学、后殖民和全球化论述诸领域的集大成之作
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本书作者埃里克·沃尔夫是著名的人类学家和社会学家，不同于同等领域的一般学者，他擅长将人类学的微观分析与宏观的历史研究结合起来，体现出了一名人类学家并不多见的历史视野，在具体的历史研究中印证人类学 的理论。再加上他在求学期间深刻地受到马克思理论的影响，对此这本书也多有体现。
这本书运用马克思理论，以欧洲的扩张和征服为主线，通过三种不同的生产方式的演变，展示了期间多个族群的遭遇，强调了“人”在历史中的作用，并且努力发展一种全球文化史，即人类是在相互联系中发展的。本书对欧洲与非欧洲社会之间的关系进行的全球性历史分析，以及他对后者在参与和塑造世界历史进程中所处地位的肯定，为我们客观全面地理解世界历史提供了一个重要的视角，值得我们一读。
◎ 内容简介
本书作者选取公元1400年作为历史的参照点，详细阐明了那个时段的欧洲和欧洲以外的世界的面貌；之后从马克思主义的“生产方式”概念切入，提出亲属关系、附属纳贡和资本主义这三种生产方式，始终以生产方式的分合、冲突与重组为核心贯穿全球人类的历史；结合丰富的史料，对于15至18世纪下半叶工业革命出现之前的殖民帝国时代，以及18世纪下半叶工业革命发生以后至今的资本主义时代的全球性扩张及其主宰关系的发展，进行了深刻的分析和论证，并叙述了世界上不同人群在遭遇这一系列巨变时所经历的不同变化。
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一本既富于智慧又具有生动的社会现实感的理论杰作。
——《泰晤士报文学增刊》
沃尔夫的意图在于指出，欧洲的扩张不仅改变了非欧洲社会的历史轨迹，还重组了它们在欧洲介入之前的社会历史叙述……他具备的历史理论的广度令人震惊，而且他对历史上的“胜利者”与“失败者”给予同等重视。
——《美国社会学期刊》
在这本宏大而重要的书中，埃里克·沃尔夫在开头和结尾都强调，人类学必须要更加关注历史……想必，大家读到这样的评论分析会感到惬意的，它否定伪历史的异议，同时又重视挖掘原住民和农民的历史进程，而正是这些历史进程，才根本性地改变了原住民、农民和无产阶级的现状。
——《辩证人类学期刊》
沃尔夫提出历史是相互联系的，不是隔离开来的……这本富于吸引力和启发性的书……我敢说，提供了一个令人信服又新颖的观点……通过强调一个共同的过去，沃尔夫远离了令人厌倦的“白人”中心论和“非白人”边缘论，相反提议欧洲和世界的其他部分之间存在一种更为复杂、更有见识的关系。
——《欧洲动态》
沃尔夫的经验性知识非常丰富……他依靠对时间和空间现象进行技巧性的选择，挑选出来的现象能够适当地代表全体……这本书写得很不错，具有人文关怀。
——《民族报》

【本书看点】
★理想国外文纪实002，普利策奖最佳非虚构图书，牛津大学项飙教授专文导读，理解贫穷、住房问题的必读之作。
★《扫地出门》聚焦愈演愈烈的住房危机。来自美国底层的真实故事，也是我们亲历的现实——社会学人沉寂数年卧底贫困社区，用掷地有声的访谈资料和田野笔记，掀开 那个千疮百 孔的世界——有一方屋檐能遮风避雨已不再是天经地义；一旦被扫地出门，许多家庭的下一站就是收容所、废弃的空屋，甚至有人流落街头。
★直击被驱逐者的生存状态，为一瓦栖身，在苦与乐中斗争——不找有钱的亲友帮忙（保留这些人脉以备不时之需），却常常与陌生人互通有无；拿一个月的食品券换吃一顿龙虾大餐，剩余时日要饿肚子也在所不惜——精打细算的理性于他们毫无意义，被驱逐者自有统筹安排的策略，为下一个随时会出现的危机留一口气。
★对驱逐现象的系统性反思，向贫穷、住房问题发起终极拷问——因为驱逐，房客的生存底线不断被突破，为房东的“烂房”带去了数额不菲的租金收入；因为驱逐，一些人的困顿贫穷，转眼成了另一些人暴利的源泉——在房东、房客、国家政策、私人住房市场的关系蛛网中，究竟谁在获利？谁又该为贫穷负责？
★打破学术著作的金科玉律，以非虚构的面貌走向更广大的读者群——这里没有理论假设、没有结构框架，甚至鲜有概念；学术作品中常见的内容，比如文献回顾和数据陈列，也都隐身于脚注间——相反，这是一部深度的纪录片，从一个场景推移至另一个场景，将人物的表情语气、所感所思直接呈现在读者眼前。
【内容简介】
《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴利》聚焦美国愈演愈烈的住房问题——房价持续上涨、生活成本不断上升，收入却停滞不前、甚至不增反减——马修·德斯蒙德决意深入贫困社区，一探问题的核心。
2008年5月，德斯蒙德住进了密尔沃基南部的一个拖车营。同年9月，他搬至北部旧城区的一处出租房。当时还是社会学专业研究生的德斯蒙德笔耕不辍，记录濒临被驱逐群体的日常生活：他们与蛇虫鼠蚁比邻，家中的水槽长年堵塞，暖气电力说停就停。房客们使尽浑身解数、把绝大部分收入用于交租，却依旧阻止不了跌至绝境的命运。
在这本精彩却令人心碎的作品中，德斯蒙德带领读者走访了密尔沃基的贫困社区，娓娓道来八个在绝境边缘的美国家庭的故事：阿琳是一位单身妈妈，在为一间破败公寓缴纳房租后，每个月只剩二十美元养活自己和两个儿子。拉马尔是个失去双腿的残疾人，肩负照顾整个社区的男孩的任务同时，还要替房东打工偿还债务。司科特则是一名心地善良的男护士，药物成瘾让他丢了工作，也失去了栖身之所……
读者将直面贫穷带来的流离失所，见证匮乏者拒绝屈从的优雅身影。这是一本关于贫穷和驱逐的启蒙之书，也是一部呼吁行动与改变的作品。
【名人推荐】
若想了解导致贫穷的问题是如何盘根错节的，不妨读一读这本关于密尔沃基驱逐危机的作品。德斯蒙德形象描绘了美国贫困人口的生活群像。相较我读过的其他书籍，《扫地出门》使我更清楚地理解在美国做穷人是什么滋味。
——比尔·盖茨（微软创始人）
这部敏感细腻、壮美到令人心痛的民族志作品让我们重新审视美国的贫困问题——连有个栖身之所都成了一件难事。
——罗伯特·帕特南（哈佛大学马尔金公共政策讲席教授，美国国家科学院院士）
《扫地出门》论述了一场迅速卷席美国的严重经济困境。马修·德斯蒙德对威斯康星州密尔沃基市居民的生存境况和被驱逐经历的描写不仅会让普通读者目瞪口呆，还为城市贫困问题方面的专家拓宽了研究视角。
——威廉·朱利叶斯·威尔逊（哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院教授，美国社会学协会前主席）
《扫地出门》凭借其深度的研究，揭示了2008年美国经济危机以来大规模的驱逐现象与贫穷之间的关联：贫穷，不意味着会被驱逐；而一旦被驱逐，人就会越变越穷。
——2017年普利策奖最佳非虚构图书颁奖辞

◆ “当代奥古斯丁政治神学研究中非常重要的一部著作”
◆ 英国科学院院士、爱丁堡大学荣休教授 奥利弗·奥多诺万
弗吉尼亚大学教授 查尔斯·马修斯
芝加哥大学教授 简·贝斯克·爱尔希坦
杜克大学教授 斯坦利·侯活士
——推荐阅读
◆《选择》《政治神学》《现代神学》《政治思想史》《基督教世纪》《圣母大学哲学评论》
——多本专业期刊好评
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【内容简介】
奥古斯丁并不是自由主义者，但他是最早明确提出自由意志理论的哲学家。本书中，普林斯顿大学教授埃里克·格雷戈里分别以神学、女性主义和政治哲学为切入点，提出了对奥古斯丁主义思想、自由主义公民伦理的全新解读。通过分析以莱茵霍尔德·尼布尔为代表的现实主义、以约翰·罗尔斯为代表的程序主义和以小马丁·路德·金为代表的公民自由主义这三种不同类型的奥古斯丁主义及其与如何构想和施行政治间的相互作用，格雷戈里合理重构了奥古斯丁式自由主义。
通过广泛检视奥古斯丁的著述，以及不同立场的学者对这些著述的接受，格雷戈里确立了两个经典的主题：爱——及与爱有关的关怀、团结、同情等概念；罪——及与罪有关的残忍、邪恶和褊狭的利己。通过详实的论述，本书既拓展了当代奥古斯丁主义者对自由主义的想象，又丰富了自由主义者对奥古斯丁主义的认识。对于关注基督教伦理学、道德心理学和宗教在自由主义社会中的作用的人来说，格雷戈里的这部作品可以激发全新的讨论。
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【媒体及名人推荐】
◆ 作为当代奥古斯丁主义复兴潮流中的力作，本书为人们呈现出了奥古斯丁关于爱的秩序这一独特观念所蕴含的深刻哲理与公共价值。奥古斯丁所代表的伦理传统，对那些关心人文精神与价值的读者而言，将是弥足珍贵的智慧启迪。奥古斯丁所阐发的公民德行，对那些虽活在国家与民粹主义夹缝中，却仍对公义与仁爱心怀理想的读者而言，将是不可多得的实践指南。
——路加，爱丁堡大学伦理学博士，旅英学者
◆ 埃里克·格雷戈里突破学科限制，从不同的学术之井中汲取水源。他对基督教思想的巨人们有非常充分的理解，而且，他对奥古斯丁的解读也是精准的，有望成为更大的神学主题的一部分。这让这部作品成为一部典范，向我们展示在包括政治学和社会理论的各种主题上，要如何解读伟大的基督教思想家。
——《政治思想史》（History of Political Thought）

From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.
On 23 January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown. The city of eleven million – the centre of China’s coronavirus outbreak – was cut off from the world. As cherry blossoms fell on silent streets, people were left anxious and afraid, struggling to find medicine, food or information about the virus that had trapped them in their homes.
In April 2020, Murong Xuecun bravely travelled to the locked-down city, covertly interviewing people from all walks of life on their experiences as the catastrophe unfolded. An exhausted doctor in a small hospital, battling the virus while sick. An illegal motorcycle taxi driver, ferrying people around the empty city. A citizen journalist fighting to reveal the truth of what happened during that endless spring.
The result is eight stories that capture the voices and griefs of a city, and that Murong had to leave China in order to publish. Vivid and haunting, Deadly Quiet City is a unique piece of literary history that reveals so much about the lives of people, the pandemic and China today.
Includes editor’s note from Professor Clive Hamilton, author of Hidden Hand

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★ 一份自我分析的行动纲领
“人们需要得到科学的凝视，这种凝视既是对象化的，又是理解性的，当它转向某人自己时，这个人就可能会接受自己，甚至提出自己的主张、要求获得做自己的权利。”
★一座面向非专业人士的社会学智识“武器库”
在本书收录的文章中，布迪厄直言“拒绝‘向已信教者传教’”，毅然将目光转向非专业读者、被支配群体，殚精竭虑地向他们传授社会学的思想方法:“我们必须将问题掌握在自己手中……你们可以获得理解这些事情的智识资源，不要让你们的义愤、盲目剥夺了自己使用理解工具的可能，做一个知识分子不是一种病。”
★概览布迪厄研究方法和主题的实用读本
布迪厄用一种简明扼要而不失严谨的语言阐明了其典型研究主题、理论方法和分析路径，坦诚地剖析了他与社会学家自身根深蒂固的预设的种种斗争。
★在这本书中，皮埃尔·布迪厄试图满足两个通常被视为矛盾的要求：说一种科学、自制的语言（这是与日常语言所携带的自发的社会哲学决裂的条件之一），同时将这种语言传递给那些处于被支配地位、被剥夺了智识武器的人们……在这里，布迪厄的工作绝非反智主义的，而是基于对知识分子责任的敏锐（也许是虚幻的）认识。“所有在对必然性的认识上的进步，都是潜在的自由的进步”：位于知识生产位置上的知识分子可以用可能使他们对统治效果的抵抗更加自觉、对社会世界的理解更加顺畅的分析工具来武装被剥夺者。——罗杰·夏蒂埃
★布迪厄简明扼要地介绍了他那些对普遍社会理论产生了深远影响的思想和著作……与他的其他著作一样，这本书直击社会科学理论领域的核心要素。它邀请读者一同去探索一种险象环生，但富于人文关怀的、乐观的社会学。——《人类学季刊》
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“……在认识社会世界的规律这件事情上的所有进步，都会提高人们对必然性的认识程度……从而给予人们更多的自由。”就此而言，作为读者，更普遍地说，作为社会大众的一员，了解社会学，了解社会学家如何认识和分析我们自身，便是一项自我解放的事业。
本书是著名社会学家皮埃尔·布迪厄的一本文集，收录了21篇访谈、讲座文稿和会议论文。在本书中，布迪厄不仅用自己的社会学方法和基本概念（场域、惯习、资本、投资等）分析了流行文化的各个领域（体育、文学、时尚、音乐等），还在这些趣味盎然的分析中穿插了他对社会科学的认识论、方法论的哲学反思。
布迪厄力图将自身所学公之于众，展示社会学家的思考和分析历程，带领读者走进社会科学的“后厨”，并且告诫我们：不要认同一种思想，而要成为一种思想方法的主人。

OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times , USA Today , and Self , and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. Jen Gunter now delivers the definitive book on vaginal health, answering the questions you've always had but were afraid to ask--or couldn't find the right answers to. She has been called Twitter's resident gynecologist, the Internet's OB/GYN, and one of the fiercest advocates for women's health...and she's here to give you the straight talk on the topics she knows best.

Does eating sugar cause yeast infections? Does pubic hair have a function?
Should you have a vulvovaginal care regimen?
Will your vagina shrivel up if you go without sex?
What's the truth about the HPV vaccine?

So many important questions, so much convincing, confusing, contradictory mis information! In this age of click bait, pseudoscience, and celebrity-endorsed products, it's easy to be overwhelmed--whether it's websites, advice from well-meaning friends, uneducated partners, and even healthcare providers. So how do you separate facts from fiction? OB-GYN Jen Gunter, an expert on women's health--and the internet's most popular go-to doc -- comes to the rescue with a book that debunks the myths and educates and empowers women. From reproductive health to the impact of antibiotics and probiotics, and the latest trends, including vaginal steaming, vaginal marijuana products, and jade eggs, Gunter takes us on a factual, fun-filled journey. Discover the truth about:

- The vaginal microbiome
- Genital hygiene, lubricants, and hormone myths and fallacies
- How diet impacts vaginal health
- Stem cells and the vagina
- Cosmetic vaginal surgery
- What changes to expect during pregnancy, after childbirth, and through menopause
- How medicine fails women by dismissing symptoms
Plus:
- Thongs vs. lace: the best underwear for vaginal health
- How to select a tampon
- The full glory of the clitoris and the myth of the G Spot

... And so much more. Whether you're a twenty-six-year-old worried that her labia are "uncool" or a sixty-six-year-old dealing with painful sex, this comprehensive guide is sure to become a lifelong trusted resource.

Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon. His girlfriend has just left him. Can he really go on living in a poky flat surrounded by vinyl and CDs or should he get a real home, a real family and a real job? Perhaps most difficult of all, will he ever be able to stop thinking about life in terms of the All Time Top Five bands, books, films, songs – even now that he’s been dumped again, the top five break-ups? Memorable, sad and very, very funny, this is the truest book you will ever read about the things that really matter.

《厄瓜多尔》是米肖穿越厄瓜多尔群山并在一年后到达亚马逊河出口处的旅行日记。当时作者还不到三十岁，而且身体虚弱，尤其是心脏有病，但在这部作品中，已经出现了米肖著名的“内在世界”，以及对这一世界的探索。这部日记引发了一大批后来为人们所熟知的、令人惊叹的作品，而且其中已经出现了几首最美的诗。

旅途生活的真实瞬间
车厢内外的人生百态
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☆ 从人性的角度出发，呈现人在火车这个特殊空间里的生存状态和精神状态。
☆ 记录20世纪90年代的时代特征：大哥大、烫发、印有电影明星照片的T恤、便携电视机等等，勾起令人难忘的记忆。
☆ 摄影师在混乱中寻找趣 味，用幽默化解现实压力，一个眼神、一个小动作看似平常，实则令人回味无穷。
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王福春乘坐火车上千次，行程十多万公里，拍摄万余张底片。《火车上的中国人》精选其中114张，包括37张以往画册中都未出现的作品。这些黑白纪实摄影反映了20世纪90年代中国人旅途生活的真实瞬间，有些场景在现在看来有些不可思议：打麻将、集体做广播体操、带宠物上车；有些场景似乎从来不曾改变：孩子送别亲人时的哭闹、站台上小贩的叫卖、情侣间的含情脉脉、车厢里的拥挤不堪……来自天南海北的人迅速熟络起来，生活临时交织在一起。丰富的影像呈现一种久违的浓烈的人际关系，展示一个流动的中国。
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《火车上的中国人》展示的是流动的社会缩影，是社会历史发展的生动写照。也可以说这是他在用人类的第三只眼睛透视社会和人生。正因为它生动、真实，甚至很准确，所以它不仅很吸引读者，能够引起人们的欣赏和共鸣，而且具有无可争议的历史价值。
——杨绍明，世界华人摄影学会会长
王福春的生活是坎坷的，当它在他的影像表达中沉淀下来的时候，却结晶为温情与幽默。这是一种很值得尊重的性格特点与影像品质。因为这种品质，他的摄影在中国纪实摄影里独树一帜，耐人寻味。
——王诗戈，《中国摄影家》2012年第7期

谁是薇薇安·迈尔？这个隐没于公众视野之外近60年的神秘摄影师，自曝光以来，总被人们这样问起。
这本自拍摄影集《我与这个世界的距离》，精选近100张薇薇安·迈尔的黑白和彩色自拍照片，拍摄年代从1950s到1986年，记录了迈尔从20多岁到60岁的年华。这些自拍里的她，常常 出现在反光物体表面或者玻璃上，大多形单影只，寥寥几张里，和孩子在一起，想必是她在工作时拍下的。看这些自拍，她眼中的自己，你会全面深入地认识一个更丰满的薇薇安·迈尔。
本摄影集为中文版首次独家引进。

How do you love a place that doesn’t love you back?

Emmy Quinn is West Texas through and her roots run deep in the sleepy small town of Steinbeck, where God sees all and football is king. She loves her community, but she knows that when she comes out as a lesbian, she may not be able to call Steinbeck—which is steeped in the Southern Baptist tradition—home anymore.

After a disastrous conversation with her dad, Emmy meets Cameron, a charismatic, whip-smart grad student from Massachusetts who hates everything Texas. But Texas is in Emmy's blood. Can she build a future with a woman who can't accept the things that make Emmy who she is?

Steve Quinn has just been offered his dream job as head coach of the struggling high school football team, the Steinbeck 'Stangs. The board thinks he can win them a state championship for the first time—but they tell him he can’t accept the position if he's got any skeletons in his closet. Steve is still wrestling with Emmy's he loves his daughter, but he’s a man of faith, raised in the Baptist community. How can God ask him to choose between his dreams and his own daughter?

This lush, gorgeously written debut is a love letter to the places we call home and asks how we grapple with a complicated love for people and places that might not love us back—at least, not for who we really are. The Golden Season is a powerful examination of faith, queerness and the deep-seated bonds of family, and heralds the arrival of a striking new voice in fiction.

Don't miss Madeline Kay Sneed's next riveting novel, Today Tonight Forever , where one wedding weekend results in a dramatic reunion with layers of love, grief, and moving on...

In the aftermath of World War I, a naive woman is swept into a glittering world filled with dark magic, romance, and murder in this lush and decadent debut.

On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below the surface. 

Neither real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice, who fled their dreary lives for a more glamorous one. 

Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the biggest one may be her enigmatic new neighbor. 

Mysterious and alluring, Emmeline Delacroix is a figure shadowed by rumors of witchcraft. And when Annie witnesses a confrontation between Bea and Emmeline at one of the island's extravagant parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where the boundaries of wickedness are tested, and the cost of illicit magic might be death.

The memoir of a refugee caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she owes her mother.

When Putsata Reang was 11 months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending 23 days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby in her arms, Ma resisted the captain's orders to throw her bundle overboard. Instead, on landing, Ma rushed her baby into the arms of American military nurses and doctors, who saved the child's life. "I had hope, just a little, you were still alive," Ma would tell Put in an oft-repeated story that became family legend.

Over the years, Put lived to please Ma and make her proud, hustling to repay her life debt by becoming the consummate good Cambodian daughter, working steadfastly by Ma's side in the berry fields each summer and eventually building a successful career as an award-winning journalist. But Put's adoration and efforts are no match for Ma's expectations. When she comes out to Ma in her twenties, it's just a phase. When she fails to bring home a Khmer boyfriend, it's because she's not trying hard enough. When, at the age of forty, Put tells Ma she is finally getting married--to a woman--it breaks their bond in two.

In her startling memoir, Reang explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight of cultural and filial duty. With rare clarity and lyric wisdom, Ma and Me is a stunning, deeply moving memoir about love, debt, and duty.

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women, from the National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary

In “Auntland,” a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for citizenship tests, and hatching plans to name their daughter “Dog.” In “The Chorus of Dead Cousins,” ghost-cousins cross space, seas, and skies to haunt their live-cousin, wife to a storm-chaser. In “Xífù,” a mother-in-law tortures a wife in increasingly unsuccessful attempts to rid the house of her. In “Mariela,” two girls explore one another’s bodies for the first time in the belly of a plastic shark while in “Virginia Slims,” a woman from a cigarette ad comes to life. And in “Resident Aliens,” a former slaughterhouse serves as a residence to a series of widows, each harboring her own calamitous secrets.

With each tale, K-Ming Chang gives us her own take on a surrealism that mixes myth and migration, corporeality and ghostliness, queerness and the quotidian. Stunningly told in her feminist fabulist style, these are uncanny stories peeling back greater questions of power and memory.

A gleefully dark and entertaining debut for fans of Kevin Wilson and Karen Russell, about one young woman’s sensational summer at a Floridian wildlife center for exotic monkeys

Jamie is a Florida Woman. She grew up on the beach, thrives in humidity, has weathered more hurricanes than she can count, and now, after going viral for an outrageous crime she never meant to commit in the first place, she has the requisite headline to her name. But when the chance comes for her to escape viral infamy and imminent jail time by taking a community service placement at Atlas, a shelter for rescued monkeys, it seems like just the fresh start Jamie needs to finally get her life back on track — until it’s not.

Something sinister stirs in the palmetto woods surrounding her cabin, and secrets lurk among the three beguiling women who run the shelter and affectionately take Jamie under their wing for the summer. She hears the distant screams of monkeys each night; the staff perform cryptic, lakeside sacrifices to honor Atlas; and the land, which has long been abandoned by citrus farmers and theme park developers alike, now proves to be dangerously, relentlessly untamed.

As Jamie ventures deeper into the offbeat world and rituals of Atlas, her summer is soon set to inspire an even stranger Florida headline than she ever could’ve imagined.

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis.


In “The Changeling,” two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In “Endangered Animals,” Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In “Take Only What Belongs to You,” a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in “Fiddler, Fool, Pair,” an anthropologist is drawn into a magical—and dangerous—gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes’s body—until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home.


Audacious, striking, and wholly original, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction.

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi , Narcos , and Bel-Air .

Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl “Trey” Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death.

Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning.

Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn’t buy the too-convenient explanation of suicide, and launches an investigation of his own.

But everything goes awry when Jamie discovers that he was the last person who saw Simon alive. Not only do the police suspect him, Jamie himself has no memory of that night. Alarmingly, his memory loss may have to do with how he became Sleepless: not naturally, like other Sleepless people, but through a risky and illegal biohacking process.

As Jamie delves deeper into Simon’s final days, he tangles with extremist organizations and powerful corporate interests, all while confronting past traumas and unforeseen consequences of his medical experimentation. But Jamie soon faces the most dangerous decision of all as he uncovers a terrifying truth about Sleeplessness that imperils him—and all of humanity.

In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things announces the arrival of a daring new voice in fiction.

A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn’t understand then. A young musician rises to fame at the price of pieces of himself, and the man who loves him. Arinze Ifeakandu explores with tenderness and grace the fundamental question of the heart: can deep love and hope be sustained in spite of the dominant expectations of society, and great adversity.

In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.

Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—the impossible love of a teenage ghost for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involves an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).

Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this is a surprisingly touching story about romantic fixation and a powerful meditation on creativity.