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The Employees by Olga Ravn

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain …

Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin

Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

A boy goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at the face of the woman …

Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman

The People, No by Thomas Frank

How populism changed from a late 19th-century people's movement to an early 21st-century anti-people's rhetoric.

12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New …

Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin

the 5 Lives of Hilma Af Klint by Phillipp Deines

I Like You by Amy Sedaris

Wintering by Katherine May

Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break …

Letters of Note by Shaun Usher

From the editor of the New York Times bestseller Letters of Note comes this companion volume of more than 125 …

Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling

Habeas Data by Cyrus Farivar

"Until the 21st century, most of our activities were private by default, public only through effort; today anything that touches …