Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
Fiction
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Opposite House
In 1970s Antwerp, Ria fights to find her place—in architecture school, in a divided house, and in a world haunted by history and patriarchy.
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Worm Salt
A Beijing pianist finds revelation and ruin in a Brooklyn bar, as worm salt, mezcal, and music unravel his illusions about women and humanity.
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The Religion of Trees
A mythic tale of ancestral magic, colonial prophecy, and spiritual healing in the forests of precolonial Gabon.
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Donald and His Dreamcoat
A British diplomat buys a strange cloak in 1960s Morocco—and undergoes a haunting transformation in the desert that changes everything.
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A Lot in a Little
A Dutch engineer reflects on power, complicity, and reputation in 1950s America during the rise of the interstate system and the corporate-state machine.
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The Usurpation of Picu Monde
A six-year-old boy discovers the word “usurp” and proceeds to overthrow the government of his hometown in a whimsically absurd political fairy tale. “‘Usurp — to take power wrongfully or…