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The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller

The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan

We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as s

The Transatlantic Century is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, cult

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocrati

Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their

Inspired by the great tradition of French love poetry, New Directions presents a beautiful, small gift edition, dedicated to what makes the world go r

Wist je dat de huid van een ijsbeer zwart is? En dat je elke Rubiks kubus in twintig zetten kunt oplossen? En dat de aarde 3 miljard jaar geleden miss

Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and In

The great German Romantic poet Friedrich Hoelderlin's spirit infuses this gorgeous cycle of poems that sing of the loves and devastations of our times

A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense il

For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most fa

A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?

Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing-and then, just as sudde

In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys ar

A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novel

Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive landmass at the the end

In 1506, Michelangelo—a young but already renowned sculptor—is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The su