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The Trouble with Being Born
"A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone's hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison."--The New Yorker In this volume, which …
All Our Yesterdays
From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This powerful novel is set against the …
Apropos of Nothing
The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time--Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher's Weekly Bestseller. …
The Temptation to Exist
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western …
All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast
"An antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation"--Washington Post. E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of …
Apropos of Nothing
The Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller. In this candid …
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
"Makes for compelling reading in America today."--New York Times Book Review. "I want to try and understand why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity," writes Amin …
A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and …
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas
The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text—for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new …
Drawn and Quartered
In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real …
Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories
"These stories are full of romps, archness, and old-fashioned silliness."--Boston Globe. A world-famous conservationist and humorist, Gerald Durrell shares eight irresistible …