Nominada a los Premios Eisner 2009, con un diseño atrevido e innovador, Body World es una mezcla alucinante entre la ciencia ficción, el drama y la literatura futurista. Dash Shaw ofrece, con una imaginación asombrosa, una novela gráfica divertida y valiente, preparada en coedición con Apa Apa Comics. Es el año 2060 y una devastadora guerra civil ha dejado el país en ruinas. El profesor Paulie Panther, botánico, escritor y romántico empedernido, llega a la ciudad para investigar una extraña planta que crece detrás de la escuela secundaria. Mientras lleva a cabo su investigación, se hace amigo de algunos de los residentes locales: Miss Jem, la seductora profesora de ciencias; Billy Borg, el atleta estrella de Boney, y Pearl Peach, la estudiante rebelde. Paulie pronto descubre que la planta, cuando se fuma, confiere poderes telepáticos. Pero cuando comparte esta droga con sus nuevos amigos, encuentra que no está interesado en una mente de expansión. De hecho, parece que el individualismo insolente de Paulie no puede dar a todos la bienvenida en un pueblo que prefiere la conformidad a la excentricidad.

Nominada a los Premios Eisner 2009, con un diseño atrevido e innovador, Body World es una mezcla alucinante entre la ciencia ficción, el drama y la literatura futurista. Dash Shaw ofrece, con una imaginación asombrosa, una novela gráfica divertida y valiente, preparada en coedición con Apa Apa Comics. Es el año 2060 y una devastadora guerra civil ha dejado el país en ruinas. El profesor Paulie Panther, botánico, escritor y romántico empedernido, llega a la ciudad para investigar una extraña planta que crece detrás de la escuela secundaria. Mientras lleva a cabo su investigación, se hace amigo de algunos de los residentes locales: Miss Jem, la seductora profesora de ciencias; Billy Borg, el atleta estrella de Boney, y Pearl Peach, la estudiante rebelde. Paulie pronto descubre que la planta, cuando se fuma, confiere poderes telepáticos. Pero cuando comparte esta droga con sus nuevos amigos, encuentra que no está interesado en una mente de expansión. De hecho, parece que el individualismo insolente de Paulie no puede dar a todos la bienvenida en un pueblo que prefiere la conformidad a la excentricidad.

A cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice. A bold and vulnerable collection from a new, young voice, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a daring mash-up of pillow book, grimoire, and manifesto by writer Vera Blossom. From hooking up to trans witchcraft, petty crime, capitalism, friendships, divorce, and survival, Blossom brings wit and melancholy, grandeur and smarts, debuting a bright literary voice as raunchy as it is heartfelt. A cheeky how-to guide that earnestly asks if it is possible to fuck oneself into girlhood, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a cult classic in the making.

Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood. In this quartet of tales, Torrey Peters' keen eye for the rough edges of desire reveals fresh possibilities. Acidly funny, boldly inventive and breathtaking in scope, Stag Dance provokes and unsettles, inspires and delights.

Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood. In this quartet of tales, Torrey Peters' keen eye for the rough edges of desire reveals fresh possibilities. Acidly funny, boldly inventive and breathtaking in scope, Stag Dance provokes and unsettles, inspires and delights.

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.