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Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been …

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris’s masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century …

The Stripper: I thought I found my Prince Charming. But he turned out to be a child molester who raped my 9-year-old baby girl. The Drug Dealer: I thought life is going to be easy, …

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn exquisite new translation of Colettes tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan …

A National Book Award finalist, this collection of "e;whimsical, seemingly eventless [short stories] . . . gain momentum as tiny epics of paranoia and ennui"e; (The New …

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory." In each …

Bob, Son of Battle, is a sheepdog so canny and careful of his flock, so deeply devoted to his master, James Moore, and so admired for his poise and wisdom by the residents of a …

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013'What stories. …

"e;Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories . . . visionary, philosophical, comic prose-part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis."e; -ElleFrom one …

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth …

The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis’s translations and writing The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of …