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The last days of May are flitting away, with (one hopes) a glorious summer ahead. A new season is an excellent opportunity to reflect on all that has been, all that is, and what you hope the time to come will bring. And what better companion for such reflecting than a charming new book? Below, you’ll find nineteen new ones to consider, including stories from the acclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao; an apparently sexy and soulful queer roadtrip of a novel from Emma Copley Eisenberg; a collection of essays from the brilliant-yet-little-known Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel; a look at the wide influence of Judith Jones; a blend of memoir and critique by Michael Andor Brodeur that explores muscle culture, gender, and, yes, the complications of swole-ness; Michael Bérubé on sci-fi; wide-roving poems from John Balaban; and more.

I hope you’ll find much to delight in, mull, and marvel at below. Let those to-be-read piles grow! * “From acclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao comes her first collection of short stories , a fabulist retelling of the nine-tailed fo x spirit of Asian folklore. From a fox spirit avenging a teen girl by seducing her abuser to an assassination plot against the Queen of Korea known as Operation Fox Hunt, each story glimmers with captivating premises and glistens with undeniable lyricism.



Sally Wen Mao has built entire worlds in each short entry, making this a prose debut that you don’t want to miss.” – “The brilliant, queer, abundant, art-drunk, soulful, sexy A.

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