The Newsletter 99 Autumn 2024

The Imprint - Tilted Axis Press

The Imprint highlights the critical work of small publishers around the world. Such presses, often located beyond the Global North, produce some of the most innovative, incisive, locally informed, and high-quality books within and beyond Asian Studies. With countless books getting published each year, many titles do not receive the recognition or circulation they deserve. All too often, the global publishing houses and major university presses – those with resources to invest in promotion – receive an outsized share of attention. Whether works of research, translation, literature, or art, the publishers featured on The Imprint regularly experiment to push against the conventions of academic and popular trade publishing. In this edition, we are pleased to highlight a selection of recent titles from Tilted Axis Press.

Tilted Axis Press is an independent publisher of contemporary literature by the Global Majority, translated into or written in a variety of Englishes. Founded in 2015, its practice is an ongoing exploration into alternatives – to the hierarchization of certain languages and forms of translation, and to the monoculture of globalization. Tilted Axis Press publishes six to nine books a year. It focuses on contemporary translated fiction and also publishes poetry and non-fiction. Tilted Axis’ publishing practice foregrounds the complex movement of language, stories, and imaginations. Often fugitive and always trailblazing, its authors and translators challenge how we read, what we think, and how we view the world.