Paperback – IDWRITERS

People from Bloomington

July 25, 2021 by

An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha. In these seven stories of The People from … [Read more...]

Not a Muse, The Inner Lives of Women

May 23, 2021 by

In Not a Muse more than 100 poets from 24 countries explore the rich and complex lives of women in a post-feminist era.The result is a richly satisfying anthology for, and about, the 21st-century woman.Vibrant verse from Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Erica Jong, Lorna Crozier, Elisabeth Harvor, Rati … [Read more...]

Tales of Two Planets

May 19, 2021 by

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five … [Read more...]

Fire Is Not a Country

May 19, 2021 by

In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism. With a voice bound and wrestled apart by multiple histories, Fire Is Not a … [Read more...]

Shadow Play: Ten Tales from the In-between

May 19, 2021 by

Shadow Play: Ten Tales from the In-between is a collection of fantastical and interconnected stories written by Asian-American writer, Sarina Dahlan. At first glance the characters may appear unrelated: A girl living with a silent grandmother in World War II-era Bangkok, a septuagenarian writing … [Read more...]