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Mariella Mehr,
Nightmare of the Embryos

Nightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Mariella Mehr (1947-2022), one of the most groundbreaking German writers of her time and simultaneously one o…

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Henry Miller
Henry Miller on Writing

New Directions Paperbook - Band 151

Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using w…

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José Emilio Pacheco,
The Selected Poems of José Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco's Selected Poems is a major bilingual retrospective of the poetry of one of Mexico's foremost writers. Born in 1939, Pacheco achieved recognition early, and while still in his twenties…

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Fernando Pessoa,
The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis

Here is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa's celebrated "heteronyms", a coterie of writers that Pessoa created and conceived as distinct personalities, each with a unique liter…

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Marcel Proust,
Letters to His Neighbor

Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined …

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Eça de Queirós,
Adam and Eve in Paradise

Gloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eça de Queirósis not the rosy prelapsarian tale of your childhood Bible: yellow-eyed Adam is a slope-browed Neanderthal all alone …

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C F Ramuz,
Into the Sun

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date-when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "acc…

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Olga Ravn,
The Wax Child

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the for…

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Evelio Rosero,
House of Fury

Taking place entirely on a single evening-Friday 10 April 1970-in a large Bogotá mansion, House of Fury tells a hair-raising story. Nacho Caiciedo, a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, lives with…

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Delmore Schwartz,
Screeno: Stories & Poems

Bibelots

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was one of the finest writers of his generation. Winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, he was hailed by John As…

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Giada Scodellaro
Ruins, Child

Set in what may be the future, and centered on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth…

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Aharon Shabtai,
Requiem

Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for stocktaking and peace, Requiem cries out for an end to carnage and slaughter: "The horror / the calamity / the disgrace, / the rubble of folly / and…

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Patti Smith
Woolgathering

Nach "Just Kids" erscheint nun mit der erweiterten Auflage von "Woolgathering" ein Memoir, in dem Patti Smith auf ihre Jugendjahre zurückblickt. A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells …

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Maria Stepanova,
The Disappearing ACT

The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M is inv…

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Yoko Tawada,
Archipelago of the Sun

The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to…

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Yoko Tawada,
Exophony

I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not "imitation" per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that …

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Yoko Tawada,
The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog i s a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The N…

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Rosemary Tonks
Businessmen as Lovers

Mimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture capi…

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Rosemary Tonks
The Bloater

Why do the only men I know carry wet umbrellas and say "Umm?" I'm being starved alive. Quick: the first bookshop for a copy of the Kama-Sutra*.*Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in t…

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César Vallejo,
The Eternal Dice

The Peruvian poet César Vallejo-one of Latin America's most famous poets-was involved in various literary circles and began publishing his poems in 1914 in magazines, after discovering the works of Walt W…

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