Tattoo: The Iconography of Japan is a collection of ukiyo-e tattoo designs and motifs from our favourite Japanese publisher, Pie Books. The first half of the book presents designs and artworks by different Japanese artists, while the second half is a selection of designs grouped by motif, including Shinto and Buddhist deities, animals, plants, yokai monsters, caricatures, and more. This is a bilingual book with both Japanese and English text included.
In Limbo is a debut YA graphic memoir from Korean-American illustrator Deb JJ Lee. When Lee was 3 years old, their family emigrated to America from Seoul, South Korea; but this story mainly focuses on Lee’s 4 years in a New Jersey high school. In Limbo is a story about living in the spaces in-between: the stretch between two cultures, the gap between a child and parent, the lagging between childhood and adulthood, the time between crisis and recovery. All these feelings are set around some stunning illustrations. It’s perfect for any teenager or young adult who feels they’re floating in-between, too.
The first complete publication of Robert Walser’s poems translated into English.
Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed unforgettable, heart-rending by J. M. Coetzee, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) remains one of the most influential authors of modern literature. Walser left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence while producing poems, stories, essays, and novels. In 1933, he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium, where he remained for the rest of his life. I am not here to write, Walser said, but to be mad.
This first collection of Walser’s poems in English translation allows English-speaking readers to experience the author as he saw himself at the beginning and the end of his literary career–as a poet. The book also includes notes on dates of composition, draft versions of the printed poems, and brief biographical information on characters and locations that appear in the poems and may not be known to readers. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Walser has seen in recent years, and this collection of his poems will help readers discover a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era.
Paris, 1775: Celine’s husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. Meanwhile men are inventing stories about her – about her affairs, her sexuality, and addictions…
All these stories are lies, but the public loves them – spreading them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in this society ruled by men high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, and crimes against women. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth and beauty.
Fantastical, funny and blindingly bright, The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.
A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro.