In this exquisite collection of essays by Mael Renouard, Paris past and present, in remembrance a...

Le flaneur des deux rives was published in the year of Apollinaire's death. More than a century l...

From Socrates, Confucius and Cicero, to Petrarch, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and hundreds more, a sch...

Notched is translated from Jacques Dupin's mesmerising Échancré (P.O.L, 1991).

The Annals of the Warring States records the School of Diplomacy at work during one of the most c...

Writers talk about literature on the Singapore River. Distinct and displaced pasts meet. Individu...

Variously considered a Taoist and a cynic, Han Fei has been seen as a forerunner to Machiavelli. ...

A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. ...

Fou Lei (1908-1966) is modern China's most renowned critic-translator. This biography is a revela...

In this enigmatic novella, one hears of the life of a litterateur before, during and after the Gr...

Olivier returns from New York to Paris to find his sister Constance in pieces. Trying to fulfil h...

Spring. Florence. Giacomo's palazzo. Mark is invited to decipher some archival material. A young ...

Visiting Normandy in October 2018, on a whim David Hockney decided to settle in Pays d'Auge. Conf...

Mael Renouard's historical and aesthetical contemplation on the Lascaux Cave enlivens a conceptua...

From 1998 to 2017, Jean Fremon visited David Hockney in his studio in Los Angeles, Bridlington an...

In this dreamlike novella, in the bewitching melancholy of nocturnal India, an art dealer pursues...

Party Time is translated from Un temps de fete (La Table Ronde, 2024). Guillaume Decourt is a dou...

The writer and painter Mu Xin (1927-2011) enjoyed considerable literary renown in the Sinophone s...

An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring Stat...

The tragic conscience of modern China's most revered critic-translator is portrayed in this biogr...

In his memoirs, which he finished writing in 1942, Stefan Zweig recalled the first days of the Wa...

Ayant survecu a la revolution culturelle, Shi Zhecun songea, durant des annees, a ses amis lettre...

In 1931, Hu Shih was turning forty, and began writing his autobiography. In a language simple and...

The Assassins of Confucius was published by Hermits United in 2023. This 2025 edition has an adde...