| The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships Edited by Barbara Epstein Robert B. Silvers Coming in paperback. Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. "These wonderful reminiscences will renew readers' appreciation for those unpredictable joys shared between all close friends." —Booklist |
| Ounce Dice Trice By Alastair Reid Illustrations by Ben Shahn Ben Shahn illustrates this notebook of fabulous words: heavy words, squishy words, made up words, names for cats, whales, and houses. Says the author: "All the words here are meant to be said aloud, over and over, for your own delight." |
| Hard Rain Falling By Don Carpenter Introduction by George Pelecanos "Carpenter's masterpiece...is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." —George Pelecanos, The Village Voice |
| No Tomorrow By Vivant Denon Translated from the French by Lydia Davis Introduction by Peter Brooks "I was desperately in love with the comtesse de —. I was twenty years old and I was naive. She deceived me, I got angry, she left me. I was naive, I missed her. I was twenty years old." So begins this seductive tale of seduction and the endless ambiguities of desire. |
| Stones of Aran: Labyrinth By Tim Robinson Introduction by John Elder Robinson's stunning and erudite explorations of Ireland's Aran Islands show what travel writing at its very best can do: inform, inspire, and transform our ideas of place and history. "Robinson has done for the west of Ireland what Ruskin did for Venice, Proust for the voids and vasts of time." —Telegraph |
| The Cost of Living: The Early and Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant By Mavis Gallant Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri 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. |
| Memories of the Future By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull The first English-language collection of stories from a Soviet writer whose mind-bending tales draw comparisons to the works of Poe, Borges, Kafka, and Capek. "Here a natural storyteller, striking intellect, and deeply creative soul are found all in one—a rare combination."—The Complete Review |
| The Journals of Henry David Thoreau: 1837–1861 By Henry David Thoreau Edited by Damion Searls Foreword by John R. Stilgoe To understand Thoreau, one must read his journals—but until now they have never been available in a one-volume reader's edition that draws on the entirety of his 14-volume journal. Here at last is the essence of the great naturalist's thoughts, accumulated over the span of a life time |
| Poem Strip By Dino Buzzati Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss Buzzati's pioneering graphic novel relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of an ultra-mod, hyper-sexy 1960s Milan and shows the influence of his one-time collaborator Federico Fellini. |
| Alien Hearts By Guy De Maupassant Translated and with an introduction by Richard Howard Maupassant's last completed novel is the story of three lovers bound by bitterness and infatuation. Richard Howard's new English translation of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flowering of the great French realist's art. |
| Soul of Wood By Jakov Lind Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim Introduction by Michael Krüger Lind's stories of the Second World War and its repercussions deal masterfully with a world of horror through fantasy, paradox, and sardonic distortion and brings to life the agonies of twentieth-century Europe. "It is amazing that he is witty; it is not at all surprising that he is profound." —The New York Times |
| Everything Flows By Vasily Grossman Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Anna Aslanyan The final novel from the author of Life and Fate centers a former political prisoner adjusting to freedom after decades spent in a Soviet camps. It is a story of love, survival, honor, and an indictment of the totalitarian state. |
| The Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy By Olivia Manning Introduction by Rachel Cusk A multi-stranded and engrossing novel of civilian life during World War II. "One of those combinations of soap opera and literature that are so rare you'd think it would meet the conditions of two kinds of audiences: those after what the trade calls 'a good read,' and those who want something more." —Howard Moss, The New York Review of Books |