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The Membranes
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021
Chi Ta-wei
Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors
A Novel
Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies—into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for selfunderstanding. $17.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19571-3 $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19570-6 2021 168 pages
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In “The Plague Year,” Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (New Yorker). Lizzie Presser reports on “The Black American Amputation Epidemic” (ProPublica). The novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband’s death against the backdrop of the pandemic and antiracist uprisings (Vanity Fair), and the poet Elizabeth Alexander considers “The Trayvon Generation” (New Yorker). $19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19803-5 December 2021 544 pages
Earthlings
The Long Year
Imaginative Encounters with
A 2020 Reader
the Natural World Adrian Parr
Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. $22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1
December 2021 560 pages PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES
Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life. We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years. Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of life. She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that make up life on Earth. $22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-20549-8 $90.00 / £72.00 cloth 978-0-231-20548-1
May 2022 224 pages 19 illus.
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