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A novella and two short stories reveal Tanizaki at his best and most bizarreAuthor: Jun'ichiro TanizakiPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Aug 27, 2015Number of Pages: 180 pagesLanguage:...

A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre's most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a "masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance," it is the story of an intense friendship...

A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting...

A new translation of Kafka's unfinished 1927 novel in which young Karl Rossman, banished to America, embarks on a series of misadventures during which he sees the nation from a range of perspectives...

Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writerAuthor: Clarice LispectorPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: May 03, 2022Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage:...

In Beatriz Bracher's Antonio--her third novel and her breakout book in Brazil--Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to find...

In a shuttered bedroom in Ancient Rome, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious and prone to...

This astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWIAuthor: Alexander Lernet-HoleniaPublisher: New DirectionsPublication...

An early novel from the masterful Drndic, Battle Songs is an intimate, blistering account of her years spent as a refugee in Canada during the Yugoslav WarsAuthor: Dasa DrndicPublisher: New...

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with...

Miller portrays the Big Sur environment and his friends and neighbors on the California coastAuthor: Henry MillerPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: January 17, 1957Number of Pages: 400...

Another glorious tale of female empowerment from the author of Mrs. CalibanAuthor: Rachel IngallsPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Feb 26, 2019Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage:...

An essential selection of one of the most important twentieth-century creative movementsAuthor: Jonathan C. CreasyPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Nov 26, 2019Number of Pages: 144...

The tragic lives of a guilt-ridden alcoholic, his sexually-frustrated wife, and a tyrannical patriarch are violently exposed in Williams' renowned play.Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New...

Cold Enough For SnowAuthor: Jessica AuPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0811231550ISBN-13: 9780811231558

Confessions of a MaskAuthor: Yukio MishimaPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: January 17, 1958Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 081120118XISBN-13:...

Ranging from the 17th century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation...

Now in paperback, a suspenseful early novella from "the outstanding Japanese novelist of this century" (Edmund White).Author: Junichiro TanizakiPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Jul 23,...

The Envelope Poems is a small gift-book selection of Emily Dickinson's writings on envelope scraps. A full-color edition, The Envelope Poems presents a selection in facsimile publication of her...

Author: Alejandra Pizarnik, Yvette SiegertPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Jan 25, 2016Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0811223965ISBN-13: 9780811223966

Just in time for his 98th birthday, New Directions is proud to present a swift, terrific chronological selection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's greatest poems. Through this tight lens, it is now possible...

A lost, "profoundly underappreciated" (New York Times) masterpiece of innovative American literature about the creative evolution of a young Black woman in California and her love affair with an...

Aira holds a fun-house mirror up to the genre of historical fiction in this novel about an aging Roman general on what may be his last campaign into the provinces. Fulgentius entices readers new to...

Gaudier-Br'aa MemoirAuthor: Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-BrzeskaPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Jan 17, 1974Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World)Author: Jenny ErpenbeckPublisher: New DirectionsPublication...

Goodbye To BerlinAuthor: Christopher IsherwoodPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Sep 27, 2012Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0811220249ISBN-13:...

The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from 'a glowing light of modern Italian literature' (New York Times Book Review). At the heart of Happiness As Such is an absence, an abyss that draws...

At once kind and hilarious, this compilation of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's advice to writers is illustrated with her own marvelous collagesAuthor: Wislawa SzymborskaPublisher: New...

Hurra'ason - 9780811230735Author: Fernanda MelchorPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0811230732ISBN-13:...

A retiring professor reflects on the past, when he and his brother-in-law were arrested and tortured, but only he survived.Author: Beatriz BracherPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Jul 31,...