A catalog of such stuff as dreams are made on

Dung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China.

And the walls came down

A troubled Delia Ellis returns to her old neighbourhood, Don Mount Court, to retrieve a beloved childhood diary. While the entries uncover significant revelations around her mother’s past, it is Delia’s return home that leads to a true understanding of the circumstances that forged her identity.

Atomik aztex

A fantastical gonzo Aztlan mythology, where modern Aztecs and immigrant ghosts uncover blood sacrifice in Los Angeles.

Beijing sprawl

Stories of friendship, failure, and survival from Xu Zechen, author of “some of the most exciting and energized writing coming out of China now.” (Paul French)Muyu, a seventeen-year-old from a small village, came to Beijing for his piece of the dream: money, love, a good life. But in the city, da...

Empty pockets

Easy Rider short fiction—gritty, unsparing snapshots of just getting by in barrooms and diners on the margins of 1970s America.

Fu ping

Fu Ping is a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People’s Republic of China. Wang Anyi, one of contemporary China’s most acclaimed authors, explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban l...

Girls fall down

Selected as the 2012 Title for One Book Toronto A girl faints in the Toronto subway. Her friends are taken to the hospital with unexplained rashes; they complain about a funny smell in the subway. Swarms of police arrive, and then the hazmat team. Panic ripples through the city, and words like p...

Light lifting

A suite of dark, unflinching elegies for a working-class city and community driven to the brink.

Like a woman

Madame victoria

Remains of a woman are discovered in Montréal: who was this “Victoria” and why can she not be identified?

Sugar kids

A coming-of-age novel set in the iconic nineties rave scene.

The baltimore atrocities

A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances.The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafus—each wit...

Transparent city

A gripping portrait of contemporary urban Africa—by turns magic realist, deeply emotional, and savagely satirical.