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 searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award for Poetry in …
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 new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick • A Library Journal choice for Best World …
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years “Jackson paints a vivid and …
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers “In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly …
An incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam “The book bursts with characters, poetry, philosophy, romance, violence, …
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights “Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . …
A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world “Broad in its philosophical sweep and fine in its literary analysis, this work …
A landmark study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group developed their distinct aesthetic “Fascinating and wide-ranging. . . . Will be enjoyed by both Bloomsbury aficionados and …
