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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 '...

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...

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. ...

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

Ezar Pound and the Visual Arts is the first gathering of the poet's writing in the field. In the ...

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

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...

Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentine village of Laborde holds the national m...

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 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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Set in what may be the future, and centered on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumblin...

Mimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an ec...

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

Nightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Ma...

Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesi...

The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring sta...

The Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheu...