action books

  • ​We Live in Hiromi Itō’s Wasteland

    Hiromi Itō's first book to be translated into English, ​Killing Kanoko, takes its title from a poem in which the author, having recently given birth to a daughter, imagines killing the child numerous times.

  • Fatty XXL Meets the Little Mermaid High on X and Texting

    For almost a decade now Action Books has been filling a gap in American publishing by translating works that are considered avant-garde masterpieces in other parts of the world into English. They published Tao Lin in the US before you knew who he was...

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