The Peasants’ Bible and The Story of the Tiger

“The provocative Italian winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize is both playwright and actor, as well as an all-round iconoclast.” –The Washington Post…

Radical

From NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a provocative memoir and an intercultural feminist lexicon of a sojourn in New York that upended her sense of self…

Running in Place

“Delbanco writes beautifully. . . . It’s hard to imagine a better eye than Delbanco’s through which to see another part of the world.” –Jody E. Carpenter, San Francisco Chronicle…

Snap

A taut, suspenseful new novel from award-winning thriller author Belinda Bauer in which a woman being menaced by a knife-wielding home invader is connected to a string of burglaries in…

Twilight of the Habsburgs

“Alan Palmer’s lucid and intelligent biography . . . is an evocative portrait of the empire and the old-school monarch who ruled it for nearly seven decades.” –Sunday Telegraph (London)…

An Italian Education

Zen: Tradition and Transition

“A significant collection of essays . . . Unlike most books about Zen, which state or imply that (like Gertrude Stein’s rose) enlightenment is enlightenment is enlightenment, essays in this…

The Corn Maiden

A chilling volume of stories and novellas by Joyce Carol Oates, one of the worlds’ greatest and most prolific writers….

The Diary of Petr Ginz

“Given his unprecedented situation, his words were unprecedented. He was creating new language. He was creating life. . . . By repairing the dictionary, he was repairing the world. ….

My Life and Loves

“Extraordinary entertainment. . . . We are given a scope of significant experience on a history-making level that is like nothing else conceived during this period.” –Seymour Krim, Book Week…