Gathering over twenty pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely, from the World Armwrestling Federation Championships in Sweden to Powell's lifelong fascination with the endangered indigo snake. Powell’s idiosyncratic playfulness brings this collection to vivid life, while his boundless curiosity and respect for the truth keep it on course. 

André Aciman returns to the essay form to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was—but could in theory still happen. Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold.

These gripping stories find inspiration in news headlines about recent events. Ordinary people negotiate their tentative paths through wildfire, mass shootings, bureaucratic incompetence, and heedless government policies with vicious impacts on the innocent and helpless. As a whole, the collection forms a troubling yet irresistible mirror of our time.

Translation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode explores translation and language in the context of US imperialism—through the eyes of a "foreigner;" a translator; a child in Timoka, the made-up city of Ingmar Bergman's The Silence; a child from a neocolony. 

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and an extended immersion in the city of Arles, showcasing Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis’ sharp literary mind and invaluable insight.  

Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic "Green Book" — the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye's family and upbringing, it also serves as an imperfect family album, tracing a black male protagonist’s attempts to navigate his many departures and returns home.

Being a quadruplet can make it hard to stand out from the crowd. Becca’s three brothers all have something that makes them...them. Becca is the only one with nothing to make her special. But when she finds a tiny, sick piglet on the side of the road, Becca knows this is it – this is her thing. She names the piglet Saucy and soon, Saucy is as big a part of the family as anyone else.

A woman describes a series of encounters in the ordinary course of her life: running into an ex at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with guests, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with cancer. The woman finds each person needs the same thing: an audience for their experiences.

In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, and the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old, these stories form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life.