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A King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered wit...

translated by Joel Agee Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the so-called "man without qualities" who is the major character in Robert Musil’s great, u...

In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family’s manor house, the Georgenho...

A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley Kaszenbowski, nee Silverberg, is a middle...

translated by Frances W. Pritchett Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common p...

Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers--Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers--known familiarly...

Translated by Jamey Gambrell A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsv...

translated by Liesl Schillinger In the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from th...

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser’s career, from pieces conceived amid his early...

A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum’s celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller th...

translated by Carl Malmberg A longtime cult-classic in Denmark, this novel about dissolution and despair has been out of print in the US for over e...

translated by Alyson Waters Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his...

Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form, and they have been pop...

translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones A classic work of reportage about the Katyń Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the at...

Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s great...

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to ...

translated by Sophie Duvernoy In Berlin, 1930, the name Käsebier is on everyone’s lips. A literal combination of the German words for "cheese" and ...

Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most i...

translated by Ari Larissa HeinrichWhen the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind h...

Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative...

translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue d...

translated by Alex Andriesse Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration ...

The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from th...

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the res...

translated by Richard Lourie In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the m...

translated by Janet Louth My Friends is Emmanuel Bove’s first and most famous book, and it begins simply, though unusually, enough: “When I wake up...

Set in the early years of Mao’s China, Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change....

translated by Douglas Parméeillustrated by Pierre Bonnard The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and...

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author...

Translated by Bonnie Huie Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits disc...

In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fictio...

"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tr...

translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith Jean-Paul Clébert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French...

Lillian Ross worked at The New Yorker for more than half a century, and might be described not only as an outstanding practitioner of modern long-f...

“People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it...

translated by Thomas W. Cushing Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the...

Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chi...

translated by Ralph Manheim Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seed...

translated by Ralph Manheim Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecomin...

Talk is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue: the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our clo...

Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings...

You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly...

translated by Jean Stoner A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and...

translated by Peter Zombory-Moldovan The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in ...

Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,...

translated by Frederika Randall The Communist is the story of a life lived in the service of a faith and what happens when that faith is lost. Walt...

Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work...

Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intel...