One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, "The Last Days of Mankind" remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War...

In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pa...

Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" is the second volume of one of the twentieth century's great literary triumphs. It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming P...

"Tip" Marugg's "The Roar of Morning" has been widely praised as an intensely personal, often dreamlike literary masterpiece that balances Caribbean mysticism with the magical realism of Latin American fiction while reflecting the Calvinist sensibilit...

"I address you across more than three thousand years, you who live at the conjunction of the Fish and the Water-carrier", speaks Daedalus, an artisan, inventor, and designer born into an utterly alien family of heroes who value acts of war above all...

Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, "Simone" – which w...

The first novel Anthony Powell published following the completion of his epic "A Dance to the Music of Time", "O, How the Wheel Becomes It!" fulfills perhaps every author's fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who a...

Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange dri...

"People break my heart. Every single one of them does". In settings that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the stories of "Cabin, Clearing, Forest" are a lyrical road map to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In "Blu...

Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samu...