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The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian “Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, …
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks “A beautiful production: a typographic and calligraphic treat as treasurable as a …
A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano “Polizzotti’s crisp and evocative translation keeps the reader …
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with …
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. …
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy “Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book …
A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea "e;Exiled Shadow belongs among the great, intricate, and …
The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire “[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context …
The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group “A spirited dance of minds.”—Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men …
The fourteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize explores “Blackness” and the reasons why joy and peace might be harder to get than we think What does it mean to be safe when …