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Title	Author	Description
The Adventures of Sindbad Adventures of Sindbad	Gyula Krúdy Krudy	Rogue, romantic, and seducer, Sindbad, Krúdy's most famous creation, returns in dreams to lovers he has left, lovers who have died. The women in turn tell their stories, creating a beautifully melancholy vision of the twilight of the Habsburg Empire. “[Krúdy’s] literary power and greatness are almost past comprehension...” —Sándor Márai Contributors: George Szirtes
Apartment in Athens Apartment in Athens	Glenway Wescott Wescott	In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott offers an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity. Contributors: David Leavitt
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Between the Woods and the Water	Patrick Leigh Fermor Fermor	Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts. Contributors: Jan Morris
Beware of Pity Beware of Pity	Stefan Zweig Zweig	The most widely read author writing in German prior to the rise of the Nazis, Zweig captures the torment of betrayal in a powerful study of affliction. Contributors: Joan Acocella , Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Black Sun	Geoffrey Wolff Wolff	Black Sun is master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's picture of a brilliant and self-destructive man who sought to make his life into a work of art.
Butcher's Crossing Butcher	John Williams Williams	The author of Stoner dismantles the myth of the making of the American west in this tale of a Harvard dropout who seeks adventure hunting one of the last great buffalo herds, but ends up losing his innocence. Contributors: Michelle Latiolais
The Case of Comrade Tulayev Case Of Comrade Tulayev	Victor Serge Serge	The best novel ever written about the Stalinist purges is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside Malraux's Man's Fate and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Contributors: Susan Sontag , Willard R. Trask
Conundrum Conundrum	Jan Morris Morris	A pioneering memoir exploring the borders of gender and early sex-reassignment surgery.
Corrigan Corrigan	Caroline Blackwood Blackwood	With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure?and winks. Contributors: Andrew Solomon
The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories Cost of Living	Mavis Gallant Gallant	An original collection of stories—many originally published in The New Yorker—from a woman widely considered to be one of the most thrilling practitioners of the genre. Gallant's tales of exile and displacement are admired by Margaret Atwood, Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Ondaatje, Russell Banks, and others. Contributors: Jhumpa Lahiri