Soft Skull

A woman suffering from anorexia struggles to understand the cause of her eating disorder and, more importantly, becomes determined to stop starving and start living. I haven't tasted chocolate for...

A formidable, uncanny, and utterly unique new work from accomplished novelist and poet, Anna Moschovakis, whose translation of David Diop's Fr?re d'?me (At Night All Blood Is Black, Pushkin and FSG)...

From a Wired technology journalist: an "astute" and "easy-to-read" primer on the vast technological and cultural changes shaping tomorrow's world (Financial Times). In Approaching the Future,...

A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks--featuring both new voices and those from the not-so-recent past Black Punk...

"Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate. These stories are magic and you must enter them as if you, too, are wondrous." --Dionne Brand, author of Nomenclature, Theory, and Map to...

In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power...

The chilling autobiography of Aileen Wuornos, the notorious female serial killer who was the subject of an Investigation Discovery special and the Oscar-winning film starring Charlize Theron, Monster...

From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of ?fan nonfiction? about living and writing in the age of extinction In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of...

Passion engulfs all in these wildly imaginative stories filled with "a textured beauty" (Aimee Bender). Two lovers accidentally create a love potion while making a batch of Jell-O. An apartment is...

In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in...

"elseship is a kaleidoscopic exploration of all that can exist between two people caught in the middle of friendship and unrequited love. It's a gorgeous and delicately rendered tapestry of...

"A Generation X call-to-arms about facing mid-life on our own terms with the unique heart that beats inside us all . . . Poignant, honest, and funny as hell." --The Huffington Post When his bicycle...

Growing up, Mason Dubisee had a hundred future selves: Jedi. Cowboy. Jedi-cowboy. Explorer. Rock star. Sandinista-Gandhi-Hemingway-Indiana-Jones type thing. But at thirty, he must finally face the...

Aristophanes is inconsolable--his rival playwrights are hogging all the local attention, a pesky young wannabe poet won't leave him alone, his actors can't remember their lines, and his own festival...

The literary equivalent of a great dive bar jukebox--inspiring, provocative, irresistible, and the perfect gift for all music lovers. At the heart of all music fetishes, there are lists: ten...

High-Risk Homosexual : A MemoirAuthor: Edgar GomezPublisher: Soft SkullPublication Date: Jan 11, 2022Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1593767056ISBN-13:...

An eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really work "Arguably the most important intellectual...

Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman?s quest for self-discovery?one that pulls her away from the safety of home and into her...

What is a jaded rock journalist doing dodging landmines to talk to mercenaries and terrorists? And what kind of conversation can a man who prefers hunting for perfect three-minute pop songs and tubes...

This thrilling debut novel--equal parts satire and morality play--shines a sharp light on the dark and radical underbelly of the floundering American Midwest. Clyde Twitty could use a break, a...

A "must read" debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life (Los Angeles...

For nearly 30 years, Madonna has been at the center of the media spotlight. She has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, launched her own record label, headlined an Oscar-award-winning film,...

This "tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society" (The New York Times) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of...

From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and emotional margins Negative Money follows...

Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this "shattering and beautiful" time travel novel (Entertainment Weekly). Oh...

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a...

People from My Neighborhood: StoriesAuthor: Hiromi KawakamiPublisher: Soft SkullPublication Date: Nov 30, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1593767110ISBN-13:...

Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up...

Something Bright, Then Holes: PoemsAuthor: Maggie NelsonPublisher: Soft SkullPublication Date: Jun 12, 2018Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1593762305ISBN-13:...

A debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform--across oceans and within relationships--told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens At times surreal, at times...