Anthologies

Every day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we’re somewhere new, and somewhere we’ve been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark, save and share. Today it seems, that most of the time, despite all this mapping, we actually don't have a clear sense of where we are. Where You Are, a collection of new work, explores the shift from our classic understanding of map as geography to a more personal, human map. This collection of new writings, photographs, drawings, thinking looks to explode the map as we know it. A book of maps that puts people, not destinations at the centre, hoping to leave readers feeling completely lost. A collection of work, edited by Visual Editions, made with help by our friends at Google Creative Lab, published as a book and on the screen.

Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world’s response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily unequal circumstances. Through fiction and reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side by side with people of starkly different means. They shed light on the subterranean lives of homeless people who must find a bed in the city’s tunnels; the stresses that gentrification can bring to neighbors in a Brooklyn apartment block; the shenanigans of seriously alienated night-shift paralegals; the trials of a housing defendant standing up for tenants’ rights; and the humanity that survives in the midst of a deeply divided city. Tales of Two Cities is a brilliant, moving, and ultimately galvanizing clarion call for a city—and a nation—in crisis.

'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.' - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay Festival have selected twelve contemporary international authors to each write an original and previously unpublished story as their tribute to these giants of world literature. In order to celebrate the international influence of both writers and offer us new and intriguing perspectives on them, six English-speaking authors have taken inspiration from Cervantes and his work, while six Spanish-language authors have written stories inspired by Shakespeare. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the liberating legacy of Cervantes and Shakespeare for contemporary fiction. The authors are Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Yuri Herrera, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Vicente Molina Foix, Soledad Puértolas, Hisham Matar, Nell Leyshon, Rhidian Brook and Valeria Luiselli. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the liberating legacy of Cervantes and Shakespeare for contemporary fiction.

MAKE X collects memorable work published throughout the last ten years by beloved Chicago literary magazine MAKE. Through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, alongside new visual art portfolios, interviews, and stories from the editors, MAKE X honors a decade of storytelling and literary rabble-rousing in Chicago.

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers Excerpts: Peter Parsons No One There, No One to Talk to, Nothing to Say I feel I have to bless everyone else I know who has died, and I start naming grandparents, relatives, friends, and how about those who haven't died. Alicia Oltuski Let's Take It from the Top "Don't call Dom," my father said to me. I wished he hadn't. Dom had known what to do the time Dad forgot how to swallow for two days, and I suspected she would have known what to do here. George Makana Clark Pluto Some people complain that snoring keeps them awake, but there's a rhythm to it, a repetition that says, I trust you, I trust you with my life. Tori Malcangio Donna of Mesker Park Zoo Brokaw knows his parents went to bed on November 1 and didn't wake up on November 2. They both stopped breathing because sometimes the gorillas won't mate and sometimes the turnstiles don't work and that's that. Katherine Easer Parade of Cats Before he met me, Brandon thought Taiwanese people spoke Thai, and all Asians looked alike. He had never dated anyone who wasn't Aryan, though this wasn't by design. Courtney Knowlton Mean Blonde Ponytail Girl I hoped that I could one day do something so generous for my children, but there was a good chance that we'd never be able to. We were teachers, and I was a spender. Cady Vishniac Remainders Our shul was a permissive environment, so reasonable and rule free we had trouble thinking up ways to rebel. Dan Murphy In Miniature Let's warp speed to feeling okay, okay ? Let's get straight back to feeling ... anything other than this. Jennifer Wortman Love You. Bye. But it could happen, I say. By your own admission, you never know. She stares at me, her dark eyes darkening. I'm her longtime depressive friend. Why am I on the side of hope? Nikole Beckwith The Beginning And then the emergency siren stopped. It was meant to sound three short bursts to punctuate safety, as if to say "The End," but the bursts never came. Just silence. Valeria Luiselli Interview by David Naimon That is what it means, in fact, to translate . It comes from the Latin translatio , which means to move something, to carry it over, to transfer it, to take it on a trip from A to B. I think of translation in those terms. I think of many practices as forms of translation. Eric Boehling Lewis Blue Ridge Years ago your grandmother told you that the happiest period in her life had slid by, disguised as tedium. Only after the Soviet police killed her husband did she realize she'd been living in a kind of heaven. Oguz Dinc The Hurricane We are way behind Americans when it comes to disaster preparation, maybe because we are ahead in fatalism.