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

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

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

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

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

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

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In his great triptych 'The Millennium,' Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the deli...

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A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the ar...

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

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

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

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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...

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

WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

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

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

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

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...

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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...

'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...

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