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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to ...

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn...

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The Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in...

Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery's biting social satire about a father, his three...

Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is...

Born in 1903, Shimpei Kusano has long been among Japan's best-loved poets. Asking MyselfAnswering...

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin A...

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...

If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's, Graham Greene declared, I do no...

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, ...

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade,...

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

The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human...

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...

Claire Baglin's On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and...

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

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

A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she ...

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

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

Since it was first published by New Directions in 1962, Labyrinths has transformed and enriched o...

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

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

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...

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

'First you take a drink,' F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, 'then the drink takes a drink, then the...

Here is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa's celebrated 'heteronyms,' a coterie...

Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they-the mother and daughter of th...

Life isn't easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he's got ...

Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family-a former SS officer, a young man...

José Emilio Pacheco's Selected Poems is a major bilingual retrospective of the poetry of one of M...