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Requiem's narrator has an appointment on a quay in Lisbon at twelve, and when that turns out to mean not noon but midnight, he has a long time to while away. As the day unfolds, he has many encounter

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of Amer

A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.

In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like-to get to the roots of the American nature and exp

It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature

Set in modern Europe, the novel is about five women and two men. One of the men is a writer, the other is the main character of this novel. All of the women are pregnant by the main character. The qu

Shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker PrizeNow in paperback, Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season is "a bilious, profane, blood-spattered tempest of rage" (The Wall Street Journal), that casts "a powerful spell" (NPR): "a narrative that not only decries an atrocity but embodies the beauty and vitality it perverts" (The New York Times)

Welcome to the not-too-distant future as envisioned by the remarkable Yoko Tawada. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, a former citizen of the land of sushi and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in the Danish city of Odense with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. no time to learn three different languages. might mix up. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language most Scandinavian people understand.Hiruko soon makes new friends to join her in her travels as she searches for anyone who can still speak Japanese: Knute, a graduate student in linguistics, who is fascinated by her Panska; Akash, an Indian man who lives as a woman, wearing a red sari; Nanook, an Eskimo from Greenland, first mistaken as another refugee from the land of sushi; and Nora, who works at the Karl Marx House in Trier. All th

Available in a beautiful print edition for the first time, this brilliant lecture delivered by László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads like an unforgettable short storyAddressed to a rapt audience in Stockholm two days before being awarded his Nobel Prize, L嫳zl?Krasznahorkai's moving lecture asks: "Human being--astonishing creature--who are you?" In a message about hope (or his lack thereof), Krasznahorkai compassionately considers humanity and how, from our degraded current epoch, destruction might emerge --or rebellion.

In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his latest book to the presence of poets and artist

In 1956, Time magazine called Tennessee Williams’ Baby Doll "just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." The taut, vivi

Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan’s top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko

Veronica—Pontius Pilate's wife—is beautiful, brilliant, and weary of a life spent in her boudoir and the Roman court. When one of her lovers sends her disguised as a servant to a seer, she feels sudde

Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frenchphilosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position ofsingular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and cri

An illuminating, interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between Creeley and Clark together with Creeley's own "Autobiography" (1990), a talk he gave on poetry and "the commonplace" a

In this collection of prose, prose poems, and verse, The Shutters reconstructs vivid scenes of Morocco and its history, weaving and winding through antiquity, myth, and a fictional present; through ce

The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers

Two poems, "Homage to Sextus Propertius" and "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly," refer to the aftermath of World War I and consider the conflicts between the demands of the time and the self. Reprint.

James Laughlin has been called the American Catullus. Like that most Greek of ancient Latin poets, he elevates his everyday subjects with wit and clarity of language. Love and hate, death and aging, p

Poems by the Nobel prizewinner deal with the regeneration of life, the purity of nature, and our relationship with time and the world

Ironically depicts the lives of leather-merchants in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna and the despair, poverty, and declining moral values of the 1930s

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement, “I shot him between the eyes.” Everything in between is a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—

In his new collection of poems, Robert Creeley continues to explore the limits and resonances, public and personal, of age. Indeed, the title itself, Echoes, recurs throughout his poetry of the last t

Anna Edes is a dark and deeply moving naturalistic novel, a classic work of twentieth-century Hungarian literature. A skillful portrayal of the cruelty and emptiness of bourgeois life, it was first pu

Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Span

An evocative, often mischievous remembrance and reinvention by the poet of his youth in the New York City of the '40s and '50s. In Loew's Triboro, John Allman's fourth collection of poems with New Dir

In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the wi

"Jenny Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads us-off-centre, as one travels into a vortex-into the most haunted and haunting territory. This is a novel of profound clarity and precise grief."-Anne M

Brief poems capture the absurdities and contradictions of everyday life

Complex poems transform the landscape of Provence into considerations of time, poetry, religion, and beauty

Poems consider the leaders of the Dada movement, jazz, Jewishness, war, mortality, the labor movement, and religion

Essays analyze the development of the themes and literary techniques of the major novels of Henry James

Letters exchanged by the two writers illustrate the close personal relationship between the American poet and British novelist

King Sigismund, the seventeenth-century Polish monarch, learns how to live simultaneously in the past, present, and the future

Includes 29 poems revolving around the title, selections written for oral readings with jazz accompaniment, and 13 previously published poems

The life of an odd family is disrupted when the cat daemon appears and tries to become the center of the family