Each disparate object described in this book-a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tige...

The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read - the famous English poet, anarchist, and liter...

First published in the US in 1990, the year after the uprising of Chinese students at Tiananmen S...

Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández...

Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela's literary art, opens in 1936 at th...

For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York ...

'If memory serves, it was five years ago that yours began to refuse,' Rosmarie Waldrop writes to ...

The Kites begins with a young boy, Ludo, coming of age on a small farm in Normandy under the care...

With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magn...

Ranging from the humorous and scathing to the evocative and strange, this 9th century collection ...

A winter's night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is th...

The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a...