This latest title in the hugely popular Anthology series is a treasure-trove of Christmassy facts from the natural world – each with their unique story to tell – from why the traditional Christmas tree is usually a pine, spruce or fir to the Yule Goat, a lively character found throughout Scandinavia who likes to demand gifts!

Anthology of Queer Short Stories from Assam brings together powerful voices from Assamese literature that illuminate the contours of queer life—its love, longing, struggle, and resistance.

In this book, Mehrotra has put together an unusually sensitive selection of fine verse in English by some of his best contemporaries. The poets who appear in this anthology are Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, A. K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Dom Moraes, Dilip Chitre, Eunice de Souza, Adil Jussawalla, Agha Shahid Ali, Vikram Seth, and Manohar Shetty.

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.