A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.”
You are safest when you forget.
In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined.
Jack Aldren was a loyal bureaucrat until the cracks appeared.
Erased records. Fractured memories. Forbidden messages.
And Eva, a woman who remembers too much in a world built to forget.
Together, they uncover something colder than surveillance itself:
Even rebellion may be part of the design.
As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.
“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.” .—Publishers Weekly
A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” —Ilya Kaminsky
Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Kossman. “The sea is a postcard,” writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and—iron-tough.”
—Ilya Kaminsky
A collection of nonsense poetry for readers who love Edward Lear, Dr. Seuss, Hilaire Belloc, and all things delightfully peculiar.
A hybrid scholarly and literary volume of popular Russian-language Soviet children’s texts alongside essays that outline the significance and meanings behind these popular texts.
