Results for “art”

Adult

Kaveh Akbar

Cyrus Shams, an Iranian American poet in recovery, hunts for meaning in death, family, and a painting that may be his mother. Orphaned, addicted, and allergic to easy transcendence, he turns martyrdom into a question instead of a costume.

Adult

Saou Ichikawa

Translated from Japanese by Polly Barton. Shaka lives in a care home outside Tokyo, uses a ventilator, and writes erotica under a pen name. A dare involving a nurse and a large sum of money detonates her claim on sex, money, and the right to be outrageous.

Adult

N.K. Jemisin

The Stillness is ending, again. Orogenes — people who can still earthquakes, and who are hated for it — survive as a controlled caste. Three braided narratives open a broken world that still has love, geology, and a system that calls oppression safety.

Adult

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Incarcerated people fight to the death on national television for a shot at freedom. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are partners and rivals inside a spectacle that sells Black pain as entertainment — with footnotes that will not let you watch from the couch.