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Winter Mythologies and Abbots
Michon’s exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to the double-edged power of belief This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully...
The Origin of the World
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Two Lives
Gertrude and Alice
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary...
Iphigenia in Forest Hills
Anatomy of a Murder Trial
"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell — the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."—Dwight Garner,
The Dregs of the Day
A riveting English translation the Irish classic tale of heartache, death, and loneliness by the beloved author of The Dirty Dust The final published work by the renowned Máirtín Ó Cadhain, this...
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
A modern Spanish masterpiece by one of the most extraordinary novelists of our time In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August...
Science Since Babylon
Enlarged Edition
Professor Price has enlarged his widely known and influential study of science and the humanities to include much new material, extraordinarily broad in its range: from ancient automata, talismans and symbols, to the...
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama “The definitive edition.”—Boston Globe Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his...
The Corpse Washer
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation’s horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family...
Voices of the Lost
A Novel
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel weaves together a series of devastating confessions about life in contemporary Arab society This profound and disturbing novel by acclaimed...