Astra House
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The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
$21.00 Add to cartA Variety best music book of 2024
“In a career and life full of fictions, the truth–as this excellent, de
A FLOOD best music book of 2024
A Clash best music book of 2024
A Mother Jones best book of 2024- Author: Fernando, S. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 166260324X
- Language: English
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Galapagos
$22.00 Add to cart“V?lez stuns with her corporeal descriptions and baroque literary allusions. This is a knockout.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From NYC-based Colombian writer F?tima V?lez comes debut novel Gala… [more below]- Author: Vélez, Fátima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 166260226X
- Language: English
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The Sex Lives of African Women: Self Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
$18.00 Read moreNow in paperback and with journaling prompts, an Economist Best Book of the Year hailed as “Touching, joyful, defiant–and honest,” celebrating African women’s unique journeys toward sexual pleasure a… [more below]
- Author: Sekyiamah, Nana Darkoa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601980
- Language: English
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Dad Had a Bad Day
$21.00 Read moreHeadshot meets John Cheever in this darkly funny, deeply moving portrait of what happens when a “sad dad” reconnects with a passion from his past.
When Ned finds his old Slazenger tennis racquet burie- Author: Politanoff, Ashton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603436
- Language: English
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Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body
$30.00 Read moreA vibrant history of women’s bodies, expertise, and work from a major new writer–stylish, revelatory, and liberating.
Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercise- Author: Maglaque, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603347
- Language: English
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Superstars
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a tender and combative portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the 90s — for fans of Virginie Despentes and Gary Indiana.
Louise is a w- Author: Scott, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603479
- Language: English
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Offseason
$28.00 Add to cart“Obscenely good and very funny.”
“To let us see the world reinvented through the eyes of a narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar,
–Catherine Lacey, author of The M?bius Book- Author: Sharp, Avigayl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603509
- Language: English
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Technology and Barbarism: Or: How Billionaires Will Save Us from the End of the World
$20.00 Add to cartThought-provoking pieces of nonfiction exploring the crossroads of technology with art and science, as well as how hard science fiction has inspired the craziest ideas of our times, for the good and t… [more below]
- Author: Nieva, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603185
- Language: English
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The Oldest Bitch Alive
$28.00 Add to cartFor fans of Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend and Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, a polyphonic debut following an aging French bulldog and the parasitic worms that send her toward death — a singular, sly no… [more below]
- Author: Day, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603371
- Language: English
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Dream Facades: Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV
$28.00 Add to cartFor fans of Jia Tolentino and Amanda Montell, a probing and lively exploration of the unlikely dwellings we regard on reality TV — and what they say about American history, modern life, and the archi… [more below]
- Author: Morley, Jack Balderrama
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1662602928
- Language: English
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Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team
$30.00 Add to cart“Metropolitans expertly unpacks the ‘cruel optimism’ linking the yearning of a fanbase whose suffering is alleviated by sporadic miracles to the genuine dissident legacies that surrounded the team’s c… [more below]
- Author: Gittlitz, A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603002
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$18.00 Add to cart“Enlightening and enthusiastic.” –Ed Simon, The New York Times Book Review
Now in paperback, a highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603401
- Language: English
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Another Bone-Swapping Event
$29.00 Add to cartBrad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru.
“Brad Fox has traveled to the center- Author: Fox, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603169
- Language: English
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The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
$21.00 Add to cartA Variety best music book of 2024
“In a career and life full of fictions, the truth–as this excellent, de
A FLOOD best music book of 2024
A Clash best music book of 2024
A Mother Jones best book of 2024- Author: Fernando, S. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 166260324X
- Language: English
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Galapagos
$22.00 Add to cart“V?lez stuns with her corporeal descriptions and baroque literary allusions. This is a knockout.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From NYC-based Colombian writer F?tima V?lez comes debut novel Gala… [more below]- Author: Vélez, Fátima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 166260226X
- Language: English
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The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Award
A Washington Post top 10 best book of 2023 A Publishers Weekly best nonfiction book of 2023 “Hypnotic . . . Beautifully written- Author: Fox, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603258
- Language: English
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Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
$18.00 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of 2024
“A powerful case for limitarianism–the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-r
A History Today Book of the Year- Author: Robeyns, Ingrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603363
- Language: English
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Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia
$29.00 Add to cartIn his first book, award-winning investigative journalist Brian Barth takes us on an immersive journey deep into Silicon Valley’s homeless encampments, challenging everything we thought we knew about … [more below]
- Author: Barth, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1662601611
- Language: English
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Happy Bad
$26.00 Add to cart“Delaney Nolan has written a brutal, joyful, surprising, and gorgeous novel of human contradictions. It’s a stunner.”–Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
Hernan Diaz meets Ottessa M- Author: Nolan, Delaney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603282
- Language: English
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Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
$30.00 Add to cart“A charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the ‘aerial view’ . . . McPherson makes an elliptical and enchanting case for reinserting … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1662602952
- Language: English
