When a bomb explodes in a university cafe, nineteen students are killed. "The Empty Space" begins with the identification of these slain students. Slowly, each individual is claimed and taken away for a proper burial by their mourning family members....

"Chemmeen" tells the story of the relationship between Karutthamma, a Hindu woman from the fisherfolk community, and Pareekkutty, the son of a Muslim fish wholesaler. Unable to marry Pareekkutty for religious reasons, Karutthamma instead marries Pala...

This volume by Rana Serida presents the first complete edition of a hitherto unattested narrative from the Tebtunis temple library in Egypt (1st-2nd century AD). The story seems to have formed part of the so-called Inaros Cycle, a sequence of stories...

More than a gathering of essays, "That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration" is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written....

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets" brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. "The Stairway to the Sun" contains four...

This action-packed adventure established the classic pirate story as it was written for more than a century afterward, and it made the literary reputation of its young author, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Salma is a major Indian political leader, who in 2003 faced obscenity charges and violent threats for her collection of erotic poetry. Undeterred, she's back with a beautiful, evocative, and poetic novel – now available for the first time in English"...

From "Let Me Hear You": Outside is inside now The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into...

Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll – are capable of when the constraints of civilized life are loosed. This chilling anthology also collect...

This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.