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These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

Leyla Uysal, the founder of Bajer, uses the motifs from ancient Kurdish carpet-weaving techniques to shine a light on her people.