Soft Skull

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...

"Portrait of the artist as a broke and brilliant, hungry and funny young woman" (Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want), this hilarious and incisive coming-of-age novel about an art student from a poor...

As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka...

The End Of The Rainy Season: Discovering My Family'S Hidden Past In BrazilAuthor: Marian LindbergPublisher: Soft SkullPublication Date: Apr 14, 2015Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Baby books don't have to be boring! The Food of Love is a fresh and funny look at motherhood. Acclaimed author, cartoonist, and mother Kate Evans explores all aspects of attachment parenting,...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year that "fondly recalls John Kennedy Toole's 1980 classic A Confederacy of Dunces." Esmerelda Van Twinkle, a failed pastry chef turned obese copy shop...

Michaelo O'Dell is hit by a car, and when he doesn't die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can't seem to move, frozen in the crash position. He can't concentrate, or control his anger and grief,...

The Good Fairies of New York tells the fish-out-of-water story of two Scottish thistle fairies who find themselves in Manhattan. The fairies hook up with two humans, Kerry (complete with colostomy...

We're obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we'll never win, and which...

On June 1st, 1914, Una O'Shaughnessy sends a postcard home from a Cornish seaside town. Back in two weeks, she promises. But seven months later, she still has not returned to Ireland, and she sends...

What happens to our pop culture when it meets another culture head-on--especially one that, according to some, is completely at odds with our own? In The Sheikh's Batmobile, pop culture commentator...

Pasha Malla knows joy in all of its weird, unsettling, and wondrous forms. In their humor, warmth, and rigorous honesty, his stories clearly capture something odd and beautiful: the unmistakable...

Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She...

Finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Awards Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a...

Kevin Myers was a young, wide-eyed, and naive outsider thrust into the thick of the conflict in Northern Ireland as it teetered on the brink of civil war. Quickly absorbed into the local community...

In September 2001, a young Iranian journalist, Hossein Derakhshan, created one of the first weblogs in Farsi. When he also devised a simple how-to-blog guide for Iranians, it unleashed a torrent of...

Filmmaker Alex Cox's thoughtful autobiography examines his craft and influences, as well as providing his insights into many of his favorite films. Sometimes called a radical, Cox is a quintessential...