The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.
The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit.
For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human
“A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” —Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller
The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.
From the writer adored by the likes of García Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernández's classic tales
A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the mostpowerfully strange young voices in Japan