The Heritage of the Bhikku

From the best-selling author of What the Buddha Taught, the fascinating story of the Buddhist monks’ life of service….

The Possessed

From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English…

Hellfire

“The best rock ‘n’ roll biography ever written. . . . There is a novelistic intensity to this story of tragedy, triumph and love. Its portrayal of a society alien…

Time Among the Maya

“Wright’s unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters, and . . . teaches us a lot about the way a culture endures.”…

Malaria Dreams

“One of the funniest tales of misadventure to come along in quite a while. . . . Mr. Stevens has a wonderful eye for the curiosities of human behavior, Third…

Brunetti’s Venice

“Reading Leon has fueled a fantasy common to visitors in this secretive, surreally beautiful city: that somehow, despite your total lack of local credentials, you’ll be invited through . ….

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-1852

The Last World

“A brilliant exercise in alternative literary history . . . Mr. Ransmayr’s book is all of a piece–intensely visualized, dense with magical images, and offering many obscure satisfactions.” –The New…

Speed-the-Plow

“A brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity and another tone poem by our foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy. . . .On its deepest level…