“A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers’ and writers’ desks and in their minds.”—Maya Angelou
A ground-breaking biography revealing the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula.
Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black.
A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella.
"Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature."—Harold Bloom
One of the greatest modernist composers comes alive in this illuminating biography, a must-have for musicians and music-lovers alike.
This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.
“Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald
“[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing.”—Jonathan Franzen
An historic publication in which the legendary dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros.
With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.