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
Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind has become a modern classic. It has been translated into nine languages and there are now three-quarters of a million copies in print.
“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.
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
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the mostpowerfully strange young voices in Japan
A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach