Dalkey Archive Press, June 2011. Trade Paperback. In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance--starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at..... More
Dalkey Archive Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. "Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kis's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century." Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction. More
University of California Press, March 1985. Trade Paperback. Offers poems written from the 1940s through the 1970s that reveal the development of the author's style. More
Twisted Spoon Press, February 2015. Paper Back. Poetry. Southeastern European Studies. Selected and Translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin with Radu Andriescu, Mircea Ivanescu, and Bogdan Stafenescu. Some of the most groundbreaking works of European literature, such as Rimbaud's Illuminations and Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, have been prose poetry..... More
New Directions, June 1995. Reprint. Paper Back. Here is a colorful variety pf works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is..... More
World Poetry Books, September 2022. Paper Back. A long overdue volume of Jacques Darras, celebrated French poet of place and nature, and prolific translator and scholar of American and British poetry. "John Scotus Eriugena at Laon," the title poem of this volume, recounts the journey of a ninth-century Irish monk..... More
New York Review of Books, June 2004. Paper Back. One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a...... More
Penguin Classics, August 2004. Trade Paperback. Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most..... More
Penguin Classics, September 2009. Trade Paperback. The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black..... More
World Poetry Books, May 2022. Paper Back. Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES is the visceral and surreal English-language debut of one of Italy's most promising younger poets. Brimming with windows, screens, and high-rise glass, Maria Borio's first English-language collection confronts the interpersonal crises of contemporary lives caught between two worlds--one ancient and..... More
World Poetry Books, November 2022. Paper Back. Written during the Pinochet dictatorship but not published until democracy's return, Ennio Moltedo's NIGHT is a masterpiece of controlled rage, mourning, resistance, and astonishing humor, and the first of his books to appear in English translation. Ennio Moltedo (1931-2012), whom Raúl Zurita called..... More
World Poetry Books, November 2022. Paper Back. In her English-language debut, acclaimed French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora Olivia Elias probes deeply into the upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Foreword by Najwan Darwish CHAOS, CROSSING--translated by award-winning translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid--is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness, of times..... More
Ugly Duckling Presse / After Hour Editions, November 2020. Paper Back. Poetry. LIFE IN SPACE is translated by Joan Brooks and includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan, Charles Bernstein, and Kevin M.F. Platt, as well as Anastasiya Osipova (with Marijeta Bozovic, Catherine Ciepiela, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Pavel Khazanov, Mila..... More
Random House UK, July 1995. Paper Back. Pages toned; covers creased; still, a solid reading copy of a scarce title. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often..... More
Grand Central Publishing, October 2021. Paper Back. #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The Globe and Mail Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of..... More
Abacus, January 2022. Paper Back. Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence. Atlanta, 1956. When Arthur Bishop, editor of Atlanta's leading black newspaper, is..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. Hardcover. It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York City and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate, as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Stuck in the mores and bores of..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2019. Trade Paperback. The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds..... More
Tin House Books, January 2023. Paper Back. Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. Hardcover. In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked baseball fields to secondhand memories..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put..... More
Graywolf Press, November 2022. Paper Back. A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and..... More
Vintage, May 1992. Trade Paperback. 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West--from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road Based on historical..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2022. Hardcover. REESE'S BOOK CLUB DECEMBER PICK - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way..... More
