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I Have No Regrets – Diaries, 1955–1963
Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann’s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany. With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets …
It All Tastes of Farewell
Continuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this volume is a compelling and frank account of one woman’s life and loves in 1960s East …
The Unsaddled
A captivating and wide-ranging interpretation of accidental dismounting. In Pascal Quignard’s writing, philology hunts for wild game in a dark forest. The Unsaddled, which …
The Matter of Language – Abstraction and Poetry
A critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the center of thought, the twenty-first …
The Golden Horde – Revolutionary Italy, 1960–1977
The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original …
The Soul of Brutes
A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever …
The Language of Languages
With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation. Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, …
Terms of Disorder – Keywords for an Interregnum
A timely book addressing the burning concerns of our times, from the excesses of capitalism to the global crisis of leadership. There is widespread agreement, across a voluble …
Hölderlin's Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843
One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a …
What I Saw, Heard, Learned . . .
An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that …
as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window
Poetic prose meditations translated superbly into English. Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and …
Strangers in Light Coats
A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time. Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work …