Yellowface
In Yellowface, R. F. Kuang turns plagiarism, publishing ambition and online outrage into propulsion. The novel moves quickly, even as its satire reduces people to instruments.
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Small Rain
Confined to a hospital room, the novel tests the body under illness and traces intimacy under strain.
Martyr!
A recovering addict studies martyrs and dreams of meaningful death. The novel follows the harder choice: staying alive.
What Belongs to You
A relationship shaped by money and belated knowledge exposes how shame settles in the body.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
A son writes in a language his mother cannot read. Ocean Vuong’s novel examines how trauma and desire are fixed in sentences that cannot be answered.
Giovanni’s Room
An American expatriate in 1950s Paris recounts the love he could not allow himself to live. Masculinity operates as self-policing that narrows into isolation