New Directions

Originally published to shocked reviews in 1932 France, a scathing literary critique of what the writer believed to be the poor judgment and hypocrisy of society follows the travels of...

Akutagawa's magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own--poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and wittyAuthor: Ryunosuke AkutagawaPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date:...

About one woman's fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch-with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries-is lightning in a bottleAuthor: Kathryn ScanlanPublisher: New DirectionsPublication...

A cosmology of place written in the songs of whales and birds, folk tales, city streets, and the green glass seaAuthor: Lesley HarrisonPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: May 02, 2023Number of...

A new edition of a classic work by a late forefront Argentinean writer features the 1964 augmented original text and is complemented by a biographical essay, a tribute to the writer's body of work,...

A ravishing new translation of Iran's trailblazing, feminist poet in a comprehensive and indispensable collectionAuthor: Forough FarrokhzadPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Apr 05,...

Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potentialAuthor: Jean CocteauPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Jun 21,...

A little book on writings of the subordinate, minor, and the smallAuthor: Rivka GalchenPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Mar 26, 2019Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Lucky BreaksAuthor: Yevgenia BelorusetsPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 081122984XISBN-13: 9780811229845

A brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that--through a synthesis of Indigenous folklore and mythology, flora and fauna, slang and dialects--aims to establish the true Brazilian...

In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between...

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear is a novel that stars three generations of talented writers and performers who happen to be polar bears. The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen...

In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivityAuthor: Mieko KanaiPublisher: New DirectionsPublication...

A career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette MayerAuthor: Bernadette MayerPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Nov 01, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage:...

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian peopleAuthor: Adania ShibliPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: May 26, 2020Number of...

In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster...

An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece--an American classic that will "leave you so giddy you'll go and kick sand in somebody's face" (Houston Post)Author: Robert PlunketPublisher: New...

From the acclaimed author of The Employees, a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood.Author: Olga RavnPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Oct 10, 2023Number of Pages:...

French writer Antoine Roquentin is disgusted at his own existence and catalogs his every thought and feeling, leading to a sensation of nausea.Author: Jean-Paul SartrePublisher: New...

A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature, Bolano's work is a tour de force of black humor.Author: Roberto Bola?oPublisher: New...

Near To The Wild Heart (Ndp; 1225)Author: Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin MoserPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Jun 13, 2012Number of Pages: 220 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Featuring a new introduction, a republication of a spiritual classic introduces western readers to the mystical dimensions of the human soul, inviting readers to develop and nurture a contemplative...

Barnes' famous experimental novel tells of a young woman, Robin Vote, in 1920s Paris, who first marries the "Baron" Felix Volkbien, and later has love affairs with two women.Author: Djuna...

A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritageAuthor: Osamu DazaiPublisher: New...

Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the "finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English" (Gary Snyder)Author:...

From the great Croatian writer: a masterly work of literature--hilarious, unforgiving, and utterly reasonableAuthor: Miroslav KrlezaPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: July 06, 2021Number of...

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York CityAuthor: Fran RossPublisher: New DirectionsPublication Date: Jul 07,...

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an...

Now in paperback, Paradais continues Melchor's examination into the metaphysical assault embedded in patriarchy and classism" (Jessica Jacolbe, Vulture)Author: Fernanda MelchorPublisher: New...