Forthcoming, ships September 2026

Jiyar Jahan Fard
Translated by Chiya Parvizpur

Fiction & Literary Nonfiction

Over a single day, a family faces grief and exile and history in a surreal tale set at contested borders.

On one side of the border, Azad’s mother stands in her grief, waiting to bury her son. On the other side, his uncle and cousins wait with his body, barred by unrelenting guards from bringing him home without a passport. Borders are a thousand kinds of violence, a vicious declaration of who belongs and who does not. For generations, the Kurdish people have lived divided by these cruelties, carved out amid the ruins of war and empire. This is The Shadeless Border.

Over the next twenty-four hours at the crossing, an uncanny tale unfolds through a chorus of surprising voices: Death and the Border speak to us like old friends; a coffin and a stringed instrument, both carved from the same tree, remember Azad’s family history. Set at the contested frontier between Iran and Iraq, Jiyar Jahan Fard’s masterpiece is a work of haunting intensity, written along the delicate line between Kafka and Kundera, and tracing the man-made boundaries that define the reality of modern-day Kurdistan.

Forthcoming, ships October 2026

Seraj Assi

Fiction / Anticolonial Politics
Nonaligned

A Palestinian novel about witnessing a massacre, and worse still, surviving it.

Resurrected in Heaven, a bewildered survivor of a massacre flashes back to harrowing events unfolding in an unnamed besieged town, a camp ravished by hunger and swollen with displaced people and starving children, where a hopeful euphoria building at a breadline culminates in a tragedy and bleak dissolution. Centered on the theme of hunger, the essence of bread, and the magic of flour in a place on the brink of mass starvation, Red Flour is essentially a love story that takes place in a breadline. “But can love blossom in a place ravished by hunger?”

Languishing under an unending siege and constant bombardment, the camp soon dwindles into a necropolis where bone-thin children wither away in the arms of hapless parents, dying a most agonizing death, before being loaded hurriedly into waiting wagons and buried in haste. And beyond starvation a flour massacre unfolds, leading to the protagonist’s cry: “Even our bread is massacred, murdered before it’s leavened.”

This is a compelling story of death and survival, of bread and roses, in a world in which humanity is at a brink.

Radhika Singh

Fiction / Anticolonial Politics

Love and revolution in a crumbling world order.

Roma has a steady job, a mortgage, and a surrogate family in Queens. But as she moves through her daily routines, the powerful Empire that rules her world bares its teeth elsewhere—crushing freedom movements across the planet, including the Punjabi farmers’ uprising where her younger brother struggles on the frontlines.

Roma’s life is upended when her older brother entrusts her with a strange gift: an ordinary-looking plant that manifests a sophisticated bioengineered technology. The ‘cell’ opens a portal for an extraterrestrial spirit-body bearing news of a liberated future–and the potential to hack AI warfare—propelling Roma and her family into the core of a rising resistance.

As dreams and dialectics converge, Roma meditates on the role of faith, ruminating on mystic poetics and anticolonial legacies while yearning for a bewitching woman whose heart will only ever belong to the revolution. 

Forthcoming, ships February 2027

Stefan Christoff

Art & Culture / Anticolonial Politics

Freedom Frequencies takes the reader on a journey to the global frontlines of the Palestine solidarity movement where art and activism intersect.

Rooted in a series of conversations broadcast from Palestine on Radio AlHara, this set of interviews offers a window into the contemporary culture of the global Palestine solidarity movement.

There is both a wide geographic and political scope to these conversations; there is a root in a shared focus on supporting the Palestinian struggle for liberation, but the exchange also touches on the energy of artists finding ways to be on the streets and in the studio at once.

This series is about bringing the vitality of the contemporary wave of online radio platforms, at the frontlines of experimental culture around the world, into print. As Radio AlHara is the platform, the collection positions Palestine as the moral compass while exploring intersecting points of struggle and cultural expression, both today and in the past.

Sit with these conversations to really get a reading of the multitude of cultural expressions that thrive at intersecting grassroots levels globally and engage with the contemporary edges of the intersections of art and activism today.