The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's 'Into the Night Life' and expresses the way L...

First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harr...

Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times....

The National Book Award-winner Patti Smith updates her treasure box of a childhood memoir about '...

First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Las...

A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's intensely phenomenological poetics to the fie...

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Child...

In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different j...

This autobiographical novel by the Imagist poet H. D. (1886-1961) is a rare and hallucinatory tre...

Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a los...

The three pieces gathered in The Strange Case of Rachel K roughly map the genesis of Rachel Kushn...

By now, Yukio Mishima's (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammato...

Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the ...

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three...

Anne Carson writes, 'Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek trag...

A major discovery: Tanizaki's wonderful final novel--now in English

Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself 'a simple wayfarer,' but he is in fact high...

Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himsel...

In 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first...

Bernadette Mayer mixes together nature poems, pastiches, sonnets, prose poetry, and epigrams to c...

Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández...

Empathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssen...

The stories are all told by and 'outsider artist', a writer who is never able to finish his long ...

Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once...

A winter's night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is th...

The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. I...

This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, ...

George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his...

Many of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges & Peanuts for Sale have appeared in translation in sev...

A novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as well as what may lay beyond our ...

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Céline had long claimed that Death on the Installment Plan was part of a trilogy, and that the ma...

In her third collection in English, Phoebe Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics th...

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The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she ...

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book ...

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and i...

I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, visiting my mother. She received me with perplex...

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like ...

Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her ...

Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care ...

Lili Is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troublin...

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchc...

Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia-this city of hospitals-who wor...

Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a ...

A kaleidoscopic novel by Julio Cortázar, A Certain Lucas contains a series of brilliant, eccentri...

We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a ...