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

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

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....

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

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

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

A certain writer ('past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'') strolls through the old book market ...

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...

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

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

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...

Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife's earnings. An avid reader, he decides at the a...

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

This landmark novella-one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our c...

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, ...

The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull ...

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

As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three lon...

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...

Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in ...

In England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public read...

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...

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

At the end of the 1980s, a writer who very much resembles Günter Grass passes through East German...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around th...

What labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in ...

'How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?'

Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish b...

The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise f...