Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in so...

Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most ...

A captivating and wide-ranging interpretation of accidental dismounting.  In Pascal Quignard's wr...

In The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary--a sprawling...

An actor delves into the electrifying world of Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Laboratory Theatre.The le...

A thought-provoking exploration of the fragility of bourgeois identity.Vienna, 1825. News of a si...

A lecturer's descent into psychological chaos unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of 1990s Bud...

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that ...

A captivating exploration of identity, language, and memory, weaving together whimsical and profo...

A thought-provoking exploration of the fragility of bourgeois identity.Vienna, 1825. News of a si...

Breaking the Chains

Pyotr Pavlensky turns state violence into his medium-now, in his own words, he reveals the theory...

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideasand works have a broad appeal a...

August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gif...

In a world full of devils, the giant ape Kong defends what he loves the most. But who and what is...

Reinhard Jirgl's strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that...

In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes...

Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst ...

Analyzes the different strands in theater studies over the past three decades.

We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to ...

A riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalis...

Mingling fact and fiction, The Three Rimbauds imagines how Rimbaud's life would have unfolded had...

In 1950s France, Camille struggles to figure out who she is and where she fits in the world of he...

Each story presents a snapshot of a personal and historical turning point in the life of the narr...

Collected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts in Night Music sh...

In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of ...

Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near ...

When Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle's lakeside house, he finds traces of the dark secrets of...

In The Glance of the Medusa, Lászó F. Földényi offers a mesmerizing examination of the rich histo...

The Sea in the Radio

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendarillustrations, author and film director...

One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift ...

Set in the 1970s and '80s, The Hangman's House narrates the life and times of a Hungarian family ...

A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria's best-known contemporary voices.Exploring lon...

One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong ac...

Come, Take a Gentle Stab

After immigrating with his German Jewish family to South America in the 1930s, Heinz Magnus hopes...

The 'Modern Sovereign,' a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of cap...

'My father bought me from the council for 365 francs,' recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's ...

Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the m...

The first comprehensive volume in English from one of Hungary's most popular twentieth-century wr...

A profound novel detailing the brutal legacy of Nazism on four generations of a family in Germany...

From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined ...

Richly illustrated in color, this book brings a charming folktale from Northeast India to a globa...

An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metap...

An in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot.Iconic French novel...

A brief, powerful analysis of three major twentieth-century writers: Dos Passos, Nabokov, and Fau...

The first comprehensive study of dizi, a television genre unique to Turkey akin to soap opera or ...