Apparitions

Mar 19, 2023 | 0 comments

Metadata: Publication date: February 7, 2023 Print edition: 5″ x 8″ perfect bound trade paperback Page count: 168 ISBN: 978-1-915531-02-5 Price (paper): US$18.95 E-book formats: ePub, Kindle, PDF Word count: 46,000 eISBN: 978-1-915531-03-2 Price (e-book):...

When Your City Vanishes

Aug 29, 2022 | 0 comments

Since July 2020, the city of Hong Kong has gone through what can best be called a political and cultural reboot, erasing (or at least reconfiguring) its former hard drive. Two years on, It seems an appropriate moment to reflect on what the city of Hong Kong was and...

Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations

May 4, 2022 | 0 comments

Synopsis: Observations of contemporary life that make monkeys of us: this existential disbelief thrums through speculative stories and essays in Xu Xi’s latest collection. These 16 short pieces, evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction, are in turn elegiac,...

Laila

Oct 21, 2020 | 1 comment

Synopsis: Although the Arabic world is as diverse as any other region, customs and traditions endure. Injustices continue. And then there is Laila. Trapped in a marriage to a man she finds physically revolting, Laila begins to realize secret truths about her...

This City is a Minefield

Aug 14, 2019 | 0 comments

Synopsis: This City is a Minefield is a collection of reflective memoir and personal essays told from a genuine and unique voice about growing up and coming of age as a young gay Chinese man in Vancouver. Thoughtful and honest, the stories and essays recounted are...

Intimate Strangers

Jun 2, 2019 | 0 comments

Intimate Strangers: True Stories from Queer Asia Edited by Carmen Ho and Gregg Schroeder Family, love, friendship, acceptance—none of these pillars of happiness are certainties for LGBTQ+ people. Yet, despite social and legal conventions, the fifteen writers collected...