Series: Berlin AlexanderplatzPaperbackAlfred Doblin9781681371993$24.95FICTION Mar 06, 2018
The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s epic film and that The Guardian named one of the “Top 100 Books of All Time,” Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann’s extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin’s masterpiece lives in English for the first... + Read More
Peer to Gabriel García Marquez and Octavio Paz, Álvaro Mutis is indisputably one of the greatest Latin American authors of the 20th century and this collection brings together the best of Mutis’ largely-unknown body of poetry.Álvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, is a wanderer on the face of the earth, always in pursuit of love and fortune, even as... + Read More
An eclectic collection of poetry by one of 17th century England’s boldest, smartest, and independent women.Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One’s Own, “What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!” Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a groundbreaking writer—a utopian visionary, a scientist, a science-fiction pioneer. She interacted with Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, and she produced startlingly modern poems unlike anything else published in the seventeenth century for their mix... + Read More
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Series: Things That Bother MeDeath, Freedom, the Self, Etc.PaperbackGalen Strawson9781681372204$23.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 13, 2018
An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson’s writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism.Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly—in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, “A Fallacy... + Read More
A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Classics Original Ugly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives who begs for a living and lives on the street, Zacharias Lichter exists for all that in a state of unlikely rapture. After being engulfed by a divine flame as a teenager, Zacharias has devoted his days to doing nothing at all—apart, that is, from composing the odd poem he immediately throws away and consorting with a handful of stray friends: Poldy, for example, the catatonic alcoholic whom Zachar... + Read More
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Series: Found and LostMittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of DirtHardcoverAlison Leslie Gold9781910749593$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 06, 2018
A luminous memoir from the Holocaust writer, Alison Leslie Gold, told through a series of letters to the living and the dead.Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of courage and survival - most famously her Anne Frank Remembered, co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family). She has never chosen to write about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people’s stories, until now, in Found and Lost. Starting with her childho... + Read More
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Series: The Kremlin BallPaperbackCurzio Malaparte9781681372099$21.95FICTION Apr 10, 2018
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. Malaparte began this impertinent portrait of Russia’s Marxist aristocracy while he was working on The Skin, his story of American-occupied Naples, and after publishing Kaputt, his depiction of Europe in the hands of the Axis, thinking of this book as a another “picture of the truth” and a third p... + Read More
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Series: The New WorldComics from MauretaniaHardcoverChris Reynolds9781681372389$44.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2018
A surreal vision of a post-alien-invasion Earth where human beings still have to deal with quotidien frustrations, ennui, and understanding their place in the world.Since the mid-1980s, the British cartoonist Chris Reynolds has been assembling a world all his own. On the surface, it seems much like ours: a place of cool afternoon shadows and gently rolling hills, half-empty trains and sleepy downtown streets. But the closer you look, the weirder it gets. After losing a mysterious intergalactic war, Earth is no longer in humanity’s control.... + Read More
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Series: Kolyma StoriesPaperbackVarlam Shalamov9781681372143$29.95FICTION Jun 12, 2018
Now in its first complete English translation, this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, based on the author’s own years in a USSR prison camp.Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov’s stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text.S... + Read More
50th Anniversary of original publication; this is a unique Paris guidebook from the late, great, architecture and travel writer Ian Nairn.Illustrated with the author’s black and white snaps of the city, Nairn shows his eye for detail - whether it is stonework on an archway, shadows cast by a railing, or an empty chair in a Paris park, in this book which celebrates the City of Light. Nairn’s Paris captures the city on the cusp of great changes and provides a glimpse of a city that is about to disappear. Here is an idiosyncratic and unpretentious... + Read More
A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, “For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. ... + Read More
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Series: The LabyrinthHardcoverSaul Steinberg9781681372433$53.95ART Nov 20, 2018
A seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker, LIFE, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers.Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection of drawings— these carefully arranged pages record a brilliant, constantly evolving imagination confronting modern life. Here is Steinberg, as he put it at the time, discovering and inventing a great variety of events: "Illusion, talks, music, women,... + Read More
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Series: Letter to SurvivorsPaperbackGebe9781681372402$21.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 19, 2019
A haunting and darkly funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel that follows an unusual postal worker on his very bizarre mail route.Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud.He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below.They describe the family’s prosperous past life, and then get stranger and stranger…Drawn by the famed cartoonish and Charlie Hebdo contributor Gébé, and never before available in English, Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, a scathing, impassio... + Read More
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Series: Compulsory GamesPaperbackRobert Aickman9781681371894$23.95FICTION May 08, 2018
The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.Robert Aickman’s self-described “strange stories” are confoundingly and uniquely his own. These superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of nature and everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the “void behind the face of order,” is a surreal region that grotesquely mimics the quotidian: Is that river the Thames, or is it even a river? ... + Read More
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Series: SmokeHardcoverJohn Berger9781910749470$24.95ART May 08, 2018
A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel.“Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked.”This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of brilliantly inventive illustrations, that society’s attitude to smoke is both paradoxical and intolerant. It portrays a world in which smokers, banished from public places, must encounter one another as outlaws. Meanwhile, car exhausts a... + Read More
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Series: Ivory PearlPaperbackJean-Patrick Manchette9781681372105$19.95FICTION May 01, 2018
Set in Cuba’s Sierra Maestra in the 1950s, in the days leading up to the Revolution—Manchette’s unfinished masterpiece with a fearless female protagonist.Out of the wreckage of World War II swaggers Ivory Pearl, so named (rhymes with girl) by some British soldiers who made her their mascot, a mere kid, orphaned, survivor of God knows what, but fluent in French, English, smoking, and drinking. In Berlin, Ivy meets Samuel Farakhan, a rich closeted intelligence officer. Farakhan proposes to adopt her and help her to become the photographer she wan... + Read More
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Series: NYRB POETSA Certain PlumePaperbackHenri Michaux9781681372266$22.00POETRY May 22, 2018
A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux’s poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French.The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the imagination as subject to innumerable pratfalls and disgraces, and yet indestructible for all that. In this new bilingual edition, with translations by Richard ... + Read More
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Series: The Seventh CrossPaperbackAnna Seghers9781681372129$22.95FICTION May 22, 2018
A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. Now available in a new English translation.The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful, popular, and influential novels of the twentieth century, a hair raising thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany and that is no less exciting today than when it was first published in 1942. Seven political prisoners escape from a Nazi prison camp; i... + Read More
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Series: JigsawAn Unsentimental EducationPaperbackSybille Bedford9781681371917$23.95FICTION Jun 05, 2018
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Bedford’s autobiographical novel paints a vivid picture of life in 1920s Europe between the wars.Sybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in Jigsaw—her fourth and final novel, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize—she did it with particular artistry. “What I had in mind,” she was later to say, “was to build a novel out of the events and people who had made up, and marked, my early youth…Truth here was an artistic, not moral, requireme... + Read More
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Series: On DollsHardcoverKenneth Gross9781907903533$24.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 05, 2018
Some of the greatest thinkers and writers of our age meditate on play and the mysteries of inanimate life.This unusual literary collection contains writings from Baudelaire, Kleist, Rilke, Freud, Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Bruno Schulz, Elizabeth Bishop, Dennis Silk, and Marina Warner. The essays and reflections explore the seriousness of play and the mysteries of inanimate life - ’the unknown, spaces, dust, lost objects, and small animals that fill any house’ - which have provoked many writers to take the side of these dead or non-human things, r... + Read More
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Series: HavocPaperbackTom Kristensen9781681372075$24.95FICTION Jun 12, 2018
A longtime cult-classic in Denmark, this novel about dissolution and despair has been out of print in the US for over eighty years until now.Ole Jastrau is the very model of an enterprising and ambitious young man of letters, poised on the brink of what is sure to be a distinguished career as a critic. In fact he is teetering on the brink of an emotional and moral abyss. Bored with his beautiful wife and chafing at the burdens of fatherhood, disdainful of the commercialism and political opportunism of the newspaper he works for, he feels... + Read More
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Series: Journey Into the Mind's EyeFragments of an AutobiographyPaperbackLesley Blanch9781681371931$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 10, 2018
A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch’s love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond.“My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,” Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind’s Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968. Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler—swathed in Siber... + Read More
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Series: A Dictionary of SymbolsPaperbackJuan Eduardo Cirlot9781681371979$29.95REFERENCE Aug 27, 2019
A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art.From the Egyptians on, no form of learning was more vital to the ancient world than the knowledge of symbols, and it was no less important to the civilizations of the Orient, even into modern times. In the Occident, thinking about symbols shaped the great art of the medieval age, and, to a very large extent, the new developments of the renaissance and the baroque, before gaini... + Read More
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Series: SandPaperbackWolfgang Herrndorf9781681372013$24.95FICTION Jun 12, 2018
Set in the aftermath 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany’s most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time.North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no mem... + Read More
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 his work set him apart from the austere masters of the Chinese literary canon. Li favored allusiveness over directness, and his poems unfurl through mysterious images before coalescing into an emotional whole. Combining hedonistic aestheticism with stark fatalism, Li’s poetry is an intoxic... + Read More
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Series: Max in Hollywood, BabyHardcoverMaira Kalman9781681372341$24.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8Feb 20, 2018
Beloved dog-poet Max is back and he’s taking on Hollywood in this funny, jazzy tale, brought to life by Kalman’s bright illustrations.Enter Max. Dreamer. Poet. Dog. In this rollicking madcap tale, Max and his dazzling Dalmation bride take off to direct a movie in Hollywood.Publication History: 1st pub 1992, OP since
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Series: Ooh-la-la (Max in Love)HardcoverMaira Kalman9781681372457$24.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8Jan 23, 2018
Max the dog-poet is back, this time in Paris and falling in love, in Maira Kalman’s delightful picture book.It’s happened. Before you can say “Pepe le Pew,” Max the millionaire poet dog has landed in Paris, the city of lights. The city of dreams. Everyone is in a froufrou of delight over Max. There’s Fritz from the Ritz, Madame Camembert, Charlotte Russe, and Pierre Potpurri, who wants Max to perform in his Crazy Wolf Nightclub. Amidst the enchantment and beauty that is Paris in the spring, something is missing for Max. Max has made his million... + Read More
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Series: I Wish I Was Sick, Too!HardcoverAliki9781681372280$22.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7Mar 20, 2018
A sweet tale about kindness, jealousy, and fairness perfect for reading when a child is sick or well.Edward is sick and Elizabeth is well, and nothing could be more unfair! Edward gets to stay in bed and everyone treats him like a prince. Elizabeth has to get out of bed, get dressed, go to school, come home and do chores, finish her homework and practice the piano. “I wish I was sick too!” Elizabeth complains, and soon, to her dawning dismay, her wish is granted. Jealousy and kindness, fairness and responsibility, the passionate complaints and ... + Read More
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Series: ThirteenHardcoverRemy Charlip9781681372303$23.95JUVENILE FICTION May 22, 2018
A book of creative metamorphosis and stunning visuals that will bend children’s imaginations and appeal to all ages. “One of my own personal childhood favorites…”—Brian SelznickThirteen is no ordinary picture book. It is book of visual and conceptual revolutions, metamorphoses, and narratives that swallow their own tails. In thirteen illustrated stories, plus “a preview of coming attractions,” nothing less than the birth of the world, its duration, death, and rebirth occurs, in thirteen arresting and evolving tableaus, involving a sinking ship,... + Read More
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Series: ThomasinaThe Cat Who Thought She Was a GodHardcoverPaul Gallico9781681372327$23.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12Jul 03, 2018
By the author of the classic The Snow Goose, a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that save her owner’s life.Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterio... + Read More
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Series: Literary Strolls through Paris500 addresses, 350 illustrations, and mapsPaperbackGilles Schlesser9781936941148$25.95TRAVEL May 29, 2018
Even seasoned Francophiles and French literature buffs will find new and intriguing descriptions, anecdotes, and quotes in Literary Strolls through Paris. With over 350 images, including rare portraits, paintings, and vintage book covers, this book brings three centuries of literary Paris to life.“I have often dreamed of writing a book about Paris that would be like some great, haphazard stroll on which one finds nothing that one looks for, but many things that one does not.”—Julien GreenProlific novelist, mystery writer, and essayist Gilles Sc... + Read More
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