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)…

The White City

A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize, The White City is a novel “with a vulnerability that brings to mind Cormac…

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 Devil I Know

A witty, captivating novel of greed and hubris set amid the Celtic Tiger and its ignominious downfall, by a writer who, Barbara Kingsolver has said, “packs a stunning worldly wisdom…

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…

Budapest 1900

…undercurrents of his native city. . . . Budapest 1900 is a special book–an eloquent tribute to a city by an urbane man of letters.” –Ivan Sanders, The New York…

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