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Woman Running in the Mountains
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at …
Seduced by Story
In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "'There's nothing in the world more powerful …
The Right to Be Lazy
Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European …
Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos
The Projector and Elephant
Two surreal, experimental graphic novels about technology, corporatization, and alienation in the modern world by a cult-favorite comics innovator. In 1968, the British artist and …
Rahel Varnhagen
A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth …
Last Times
A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France. Last Times, Victor Serge's epic novel of the Fall of France is based--like much of …
Memories of Starobielsk
Vivid accounts of life in a Soviet prison camp by the author of 'Inhuman Land.' Interned with thousands of Polish army officers and a handful of civilians in the Soviet …
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, Fran ois-Ren de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover …
Green Hand and Other Stories,The
Now in paperback, a collection of "darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing" (The New York Times) short stories by the lauded French comics artist Nicole Claveloux. …