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A book unlike any other, a daring experiential unfolding Spanish masterpiece, Your Face Tomorrow now leaps into uncharted new territory in Volume Two: Dance and Dream.

Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler - retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy - recruits him for a new career in Bri

The concluding volume of this dazzling serial novel answers all previous questions and has a shocking surprise ending.

Included here are all of Pound’s concert reviews and statements; the biweekly columns written under the pen name William Atheling for The New Age in London; articles from other periodicals; the comple

Interviews and essays establish this contemporary American writer's viewpoints on poetry in general, and his poems and philosophy in particular

This first-ever compilation of the five-decade correspondence between these prime movers of the Vorticist movement in art represents a revealing reflection of their intense, always professional, mutua

Four film scripts deal with a young male hustler, life in a mental hospital, debutante society in the 1920s, and a St. Louis schoolteacher.

Kay Boyle’s Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in

Completes the trilogy wich began with "Coming to Jakarta" and "Listening to the Candle," interweaving elements of history, philosphy, and autobiography.

A chronological arrangement of the noted American playwright's complete stories, published and unpublished, provides a veiled look at his life and concerns

The author recounts the special relationship he had with his mother and explains how he worked to achieve the many goals and accomplishments she expected of him

Slippery figures in anomalous situations — ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals — haunt these stories by Javier Mar!as: the characters come bearing theirstrange and special secrets, and n

The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writersSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONALER LITERATURPREISThe Witch is dead. And the dis

As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the i

Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Some of his most famous poems from this collection such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato

Fabulous letters from the vagabond Beat poet to his friendsamong them Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never h

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothin

In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and rich

Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to i

Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he

William Carlos Williams’s medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write m

The Heart Is Katmandu tells a tale of new love - of paradise gained. Set in today's Haifa and presented in a gorgeous mosaic of 237 dream-like small chapters, it is a book in which shyness and stumbl

A modern American poet offers his interpretation of life, love, war, and death

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote IslandsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's PrizeLonglisted for the International Booker PrizeEach disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss. With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these ob

Poems deal with love, sensuality, nature, the seasons, death, justice, music, war, and travel

Poems portray the personal experiences of the author and explore the horror of war

Gathers poems from each period of Hilda Doolittle's career and includes background information on her major works

Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production

Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production

Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production

Traces the inner world of a Jewish man devastated by his wife's death and the recent ravages of World War II

Presents the texts of six dramatic works by the French master of literature, including Orpheus, Bacchus, and The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party

Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, The Maias is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance.

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and rumi

Anne Carson's haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years--a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out "book in a box."

In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) by Charles Baudelaire.

The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century. Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of the America’s most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing seri