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Perhaps the most dire apocalypse is a modest one, a vision that comes quietly, amid the indignities of diaspora, the turns and traps of reason. In A Modest Apocalypse Hassan Melehy offers nothing so unreal as hope, but something better: a transfigured commonness where justice and love might find their true home. — Joseph Donahue

"Her stories are vivid, funny and surprisingly fresh...[combining] satire with surrealist situations to deftly mock the pomposity of organized religion, sexual repression or the endless forms of bureaucratic hypocrisy and ineptitude."—The New York Times

"Samina Hadi-Tabassum's lyrical debut collection, MUSLIM MELANCHOLIA, illuminates a world both personal and global. From the mountains of Hyderabad to the graffitied parks of Chicago, these poems offer powerful witness to what it means to be a woman, a Muslim, an American."—Vandana Khanna

“The playful darkness that looms over Gabriela Torres Olivares’ writing is vivid and breathtaking, both dreamlike and weirdly alive, like a bedtime story whispered in the ear. Enfermario is a miniature gem of modern Mexican gothic.  – Pola Oloixarac, author of Savage Theories

"Characterized by layers and multiplicities, [Baranda's] work communicates both the provisional and necessary." - Paul Hoover, translator