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A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism''s most compelling figuresIn 1937 Leonora Carringtonâlater to become one of the twentieth centuryâs great painters of the weird, the
An ALA Notable BookKids ages 9-12 will delight in [the] oddness of this Home Alone-style tale set in the 1970sfrom a prolific childrens author who captures a magic thats not like anyone elses (Neil Gaiman). With Victors parents out of town, he is free to
By the Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Children''s LiteratureAlbert the glassblower and Sofia are the loving parents of little Klas and Klara. Albert makes the most beautiful glass bowls and vases (unfortu
Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuokas manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spir
No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated its own kind of moral laws, spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and
WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin''s coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Orig
A perverse and delicious tell-all view of the Soviet elite in the 1920s. Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kremlin Ball , which might be described as Proust in the corridors of Soviet power.
Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, whi
A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent. Rumis poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to
When the very influential uncle of super intelligent and beautiful Charlene Beeler was murdered, her protection and the stoppage of the impending national disaster lies with Terrence Harrod; A special force man battling a terrible past. This is a fast
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artistand soon uncovers bizarre parallels between her life and her subjectsin this chilling and singularly strange novella by a contemporary master of horror and fantasy. The narrator of Lis
We donât understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape todayâs political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and mod
The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunte
At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars''s Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunchâexcept that it''s a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Mor
The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the âfirst complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.â First published in 1967, this book presents thirty-five Chinese poems with a pinyin t
A fantastic and philosophical vision of the apocalypse by one of the most striking Italian novelists of the twentieth century. From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysopolis to see if anyone else
A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome''s unhoused youth by one of Italy''s greatest film directors. Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini''s first novel and remains his best-known
A one-of-a-kind collection of work by little-known Late Tang poetic master Li Shangyin. Li Shangyin is one of the foremost poets of the late Tang, but until now he has rarely been translated into English, perhaps because the esotericism and sensuality of
A tale of high adventure and lyrical celebration, tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness, Memed, My Hawk is the defining achievement of one of the greatest and most beloved of living writers, Yashar Kemal. It is reissued here with a new intr
A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading. Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidneyâs sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English
A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men l
The Caldecott medal-winning d''Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievo
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her
"In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark X and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to the old alma mater to catch a football game and to
Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus'' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement. Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial to
A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russiaâs greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide
A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHSNow recognized as one of the
Now in paperback, a collection of darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing (The New York Times) short stories by the lauded French comics artist Nicole Claveloux. Nicole Clavelouxs short storiesoriginally published in the late 1970s and neve
The Caldecott medal-winning d''Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievo
The son of the great French impressionist painter offers readers a loving portrait of his father''s life and career spiced with plentiful anecdotes and details of his relationship with other artistic giants such as Monet and CTzanne. Reprint.
Spiral and Other Stories
The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times critics. Published to great acclaim as a two-part boxed set in 2018, Anniversaries is now available as two individual
The experiences of womanhood are heightened and transformed in these eerie, fairy tale - like comics by a gifted artist-writer duo. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West German - born Katrin de Vries read a magazine featuring the drawings of th
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES , THE WASHINGTON POST , LITERARY HUB , AND FORBES A warm and quietly inventive new graphic novel about a group of characters whose lives interconnect in subtle, often unseen waysa
