A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for. At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.

Współczesnym więzieniem wierzącego człowieka, katolika nie jest Watykan, ale cały kościelny system, który niemal od zarania służy interesom spasionej hierarchii - dowodzą Stanisław Obirek i Artur Nowak w swojej nowej książce, kontynuacji bestsellerowej Gomory. Perfidia tego systemu polega na tym, że żywi się człowiekiem. Nie chodzi tylko o wyzysk i pazerność. Kościół żywi się poczuciem winy jednostki zazdrośnie strzegąc jedynej recepty na życie. Ma nią być ślepe posłuszeństwo - by odwołać się do języka wiecznie aktualnego Boya Żeleńskiego – wobec "naszych okupantów". O ile Sodoma i Gomora to miasta zepsucia i moralnej degrengolady, Babilon to symbol zniewolenia. Na kartach tej książki, trzymając się przerażających faktów, autorzy kreślą kryminalną historię kościoła, który łupił i mordował ofiary kolonialnej opresji w Kanadzie. Który przyuczał kobiety w Irlandii do kultury gwałtu. Który cynicznie wmawiał ustami "świętej" Matki Teresy, że cierpienie uświęca więc nie należy go uśmierzać. Który prześladował gejów dehumanizującym ich głosem uciekających często przed własną tożsamością seksualną kościelnych liderów. Babilon pokazuje też kościół stojący po stronie latyfundystów, kościół, który przerażała prosta prawda głoszona przez teologię wyzwolenia, kościół skorumpowany przez władców, uwikłany w wojny polityczne, kościół zalękniony wizją synodu, w którym wierni na równi z kapłanami będą decydować o jego kształcie. Wreszcie Kościół, który nienawidzi kobiet. Jednak to nie jest książka antykościelna ani antyreligijna. Podobnie jak Frederic Martel w Sodomie, a wcześniej Obirek i Nowak w Gomorze, autorzy piętnują przede wszystkim zakłamanie kościelnych urzędników w przekonaniu, że pomoże to oczyścić sam kościół i pozwoli mu odzyskać wiarygodność

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese woman―who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name―is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the “something” is. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for. At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."

Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it? We like to believe we’re moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities—they’re deepening them. In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny is being coded into the very fabric of our future. From the biases embedded in artificial intelligence to the alarming rise of sex robots and the toxic dynamics of the metaverse, Bates takes readers on a shocking journey into a world where technology is weaponized against women. This isn’t a dystopian warning about what might happen. It’s a harrowing account of what’s happening now and the dangers we face if we don’t act. With clarity and urgency, Bates reveals how these advancements are dragging society backward, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and jeopardizing decades of progress in the fight for gender equality. Eye-opening and empowering, The New Age of Sexism is a rallying cry for awareness and action in a world where the battle for equality has entered a dangerous new frontier.