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With a lush and sensuous palette, Craven renders the changing cycles of the moon with an intimate sense of memory Organized by the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Twelve Moons...

Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her...

Alex Wright's award-winning classic Carpentaria: "a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel--stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism" (The Australian).Author:...

Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the futureAuthor: César AiraPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublication Date:...

The National Book Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and Johann Sebastian BachAuthor: László KrasznahorkaiPublisher: New Directions Publishing...

A deeply moving poem about winter and exile, war and the pandemic from "Russia's greatest living poet" (Poetry) and the acclaimed author of In Memory of MemoryAuthor: Maria StepanovaPublisher: New...

Never before translated short stories--"stark and haunting" (San Francisco Chronicle)--by the legendary genius Ágota KristófAuthor: Ágota KristófPublisher: New Directions Publishing...

Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes--"an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion" (Claire Messud, Harper's)Author: Jenny...

A spiraling, staggering new collection of historical and mythic reinvention (and Elizabeth Willis's first book with New Directions)Author: Elizabeth WillisPublisher: New Directions Publishing...

The "diabolically clever, shamelessly brass-balled, wrenchingly funny" (NY Native) story of love, lust, and the wretched rack of romantic disillusionment.Author: Robert PlunketPublisher: New...

Mojave Ghost, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Forrest Gander, is a "a novel poem," taking us to his birthplace in the Mojave Desert and his current northern California home, where tumultuous memories...

A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as "bewitching" (Judith von Sternberg, Frankfurter Rundschau) and "incredibly dreamlike... a brilliant literary...

An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose "words explode from the page" (The Monthly)Author: Alexis WrightPublisher: New Directions Publishing...

Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best--and worstAuthor: Osamu DazaiPublisher: New...

A lyrical masterpiece by the internationally renowned poet with a "Whitman-like rhetorical immensity coupled with a passionately eccentric sensibility" (Carol Muske Dukes, Los Angeles Times)Author:...

A gorgeous fusion of poetry and image by "one of the foremost poets of our time" (The Christian Science Monitor).Author: Dunya Mikha'ilPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublication...

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own and of other people's livesAuthor: Jonathan...

An astonishing collection of short stories by one of the most daring prose experimentalists of the 20th centuryAuthor: Juan EmarPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublication Date: Oct...

Finally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo's masterpiece, The Abyss, is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette SiegertAuthor: Fernando VallejoPublisher: New Directions Publishing...

The landmark collected work of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, now in paperback.Author: Denise LevertovPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublication Date: Jan 30,...

A book-length poem by "our best living literary essayist" (Forrest Gander).Author: Eliot WeinbergerPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublication Date: Apr 02, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso's terrifying masterpiece sees the light of...

A lyrical guide through Saskatchewan's Aspen Parkland by a poet whose work is "fizzing with ecological intellect" (Times Literary Supplement).Author: Sylvia LegrisPublisher: New Directions Publishing...

Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: "a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day...

A short, unforgettable masterwork by one of Colombia's most influential living novelists.Author: Anne McLean, Victor Meadowcroft, Evelio RoseroPublisher: New Directions Publishing...

Anne Carson's first book of non-translated work since Float (Knopf, 2016)Author: Anne CarsonPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublication Date: Feb 06, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power "The literature of irreality let me sink into a stranger world...