Subscribe now to get our 2025 list at a discounted price! This powerful assemblage includes some incredible heavyweight authors and translators; Park Seolyeon’s sophomore English translation by International Booker Prize nominee Anton Hur, and interdisciplinary practice-based researcher and artist Khairani Barokka publishing a project a decade in the making. Closing out the year is one of India’s most hard-hitting writers, Kalyani Thakur Charal, translated by Asit Biswas. 

The list also includes classics from our catalogue that will now be available in North America for the first time: a delicate and arresting queer novel from one of Korea’s most celebrated contemporary writers Hwang Jungeun translated by e. yaewon; Jeremy Tiang’s translation of Hai Fan’s collection of short stories based on his thirteen years in the Malaysian rainforest as a guerrilla communist soldier; and Prabda Yoon’s witty postmodern stories translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul.

Our 2025 North American subscription includes:

• dd's Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun, translated from Korean by e. yaewon 15 April

  As people across Korea come together to protest the government’s handling of the Sewol Ferry Disaster, and to impeach the right-wing president in office, the novel examines how progressive movements coexist with social exclusion, particularly of women and sexual minorities, invisibilised in service of the ‘greater cause’. This is a meditative and off-centre novel about mourning and revolution.

• Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang 10 June

  This book is about the moments in and between warfare, when hunger is so palpable it can be tasted, and the natural world becomes an extension of the body. Deftly translated by Jeremy Tiang, Hai Fan's stories are about a group of people who chose to fight for a better world and, in the process, built their own

• The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon, translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul 12 Aug

  Prabda Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his position as an omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work.

• Annah Infinite by Khairani Barokka 11 Nov

  An incisive look at how colonial ableism, racism, and sexism have kept violent legacies on museum walls, it shows empathetic possibilities for imagining otherwise and charts histories of resilience and disabled people’s longstanding activism. Interspersed with the author’s own poetry, fiction, and visual art on the painting’s subject, this is a book of emotional heft.

• Capitalists Must Starve by Park Seolyeon, translated from Korean by Anton Hur 9 Sept

  Winner of 2018 Hankyoreh Literature Award, this work is a fictional account of real-life labour activist, Kang Juryoung, who led a strike at the Pyongwon rubber factory in 1930s Pyongyang to protest working conditions. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, this hard-hitting historical fiction reimagines the unwritten story of a female working-class hero who loved and fought through Japanese-occupied Korea. 

• Andhar Bil by Kalyani Thakur Charal, translated from Bengali by Asit Biswas 7 Oct

  Kalyani Thakur’s beautiful and evocative novel tells the story of her people, Dalits belonging to the Matua sect, who settled around a local water body – Andhar Bil – in the new nation. Reminiscing about the beloved bil they left behind at home, the refugees begin, slowly and painfully, to rebuild their lives.

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