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        Grand Rapids

        Grand Rapids

        Grand Rapids

        by Natasha Stagg

        ISBN: 9781635902570

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: September 30, 2025

        A new novel from the celebrated author of Surveys, set in the Michigan suburbs of the early 2000s.
        Schrodinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities)

        Schrodinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities)

        Schrodinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities)

        by Pippa Goldschmidt

        ISBN: 9781915983183

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: August 27, 2024

        The lives of people (mostly women) who help to produce science or who are affected by it.
        Another Love Discourse

        Another Love Discourse

        Another Love Discourse

        by Edie Meidav

        ISBN: 9781949597202

        Publisher: Terra Nova Press

        Pub Date: June 21, 2022

        A lyric novel about the play of grief, empathy, new and old love, and the quest to overcome blindness in human relations.
        A World of Women

        A World of Women

        A World of Women

        by J. D. Beresford

        Introduction by Astra Taylor

        ISBN: 9780262543354

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 15, 2022

        When a plague wipes out most of the world's male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.
        The Letters of Mina Harker

        The Letters of Mina Harker

        The Letters of Mina Harker

        by Dodie Bellamy

        Introduction by Emily Gould

        ISBN: 9781635901597

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 19, 2021

        Bellamy's debut novel revives a minor character from Bram Stoker's Dracula and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s.
        Little Joy

        Little Joy

        Little Joy

        Selected Stories

        by Cecilia Pavón

        Translated by Jacob Steinberg

        ISBN: 9781635901405

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: April 20, 2021

        The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón's short stories.
        The Superrationals

        The Superrationals

        The Superrationals

        by Stephanie LaCava

        ISBN: 9781635901320

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 13, 2020

        An erotic and darkly comic novel about female friendship, set at the intersection between counterculture and the multimillion dollar art industry.
        Surveys

        Surveys

        Surveys

        A Novel

        by Natasha Stagg

        ISBN: 9781584351788

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: February 12, 2016

        A bored twenty-three-year-old woman suddenly leaves her dull suburban job for L.A., becomes Internet-famous, and falls in love—Zelda to a semi-famous Scott.
        Aliens & Anorexia

        Aliens & Anorexia, new edition

        Aliens & Anorexia

        by Chris Kraus

        Foreword by Palle Yourgrau

        ISBN: 9781584351269

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: August 16, 2013

        A novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself.
        The Sad Passions

        The Sad Passions

        The Sad Passions

        by Veronica Gonzalez Peña

        ISBN: 9781584351207

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: May 17, 2013

        The lyrical story of a Mexican family torn apart by the fragility and madness of one of its members.
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