Men in the Sun: And Other Palestinian StoriesThree Palestinian men embark on a brutal and treacherous odyssey across the Iraqi desert to Kuwait, not for liberation but material betterment. Under the indifferent brutality of border bureaucracy and the blank aggression of the sun, things grow increasingly oppressive. Breezily conversational and disarmingly lyrical, this short novel delivers a shuddering dose of horror. Collected here alongside the titular novella are six short stories, including

An urgent wake-up call to the risks this poses to us all

and the modernist Nicaraguan poet Rubén Dario

followed by his analysis of the concepts (which he newly defines) of ‘secular’

in which the broader relationships between nature and culture are played out on small scale

Julia Child

The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968

Muttaqi Madzlan

I am trying to learn

yet wide-ranging

Wan Hamidi Hamid dan ramai lagi

India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world – and our world today as we know it

and the wisdom of Indigenous groups