Inventive, dark, and absurd, the stories in The Long Swim capture Terese Svoboda's clear-eyed, wry angle on the world: a place of violence and uncertainty but also wild beauty, adventure…

Poetry. PROFESSOR HARRIMAN’S STEAM AIR-SHIP charts a contemporary landscape of violence and death while reaching for joy and aiming for flight. This courageous, powerful collection stands among Svoboda’s finest work.

A gender-bent novel of reluctant pirates, a suicidal mother, and a schoolmarm mermaid that ends in the Arctic.

What is Africa’s own ‘heart of darkness’? It is what confronts Ayane when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an ‘outsider’…