Benjamin Moser

General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.

Benjamin Moser

General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.

Books by Benjamin Moser

  • The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters

    Benjamin Moser

    Hardback, 2023

    A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023

    Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.
  • The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters

    Benjamin Moser

    E Book

    A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023

    Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.
  • Near to the Wild Heart

    Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2012

    This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.
  • Água Viva

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2012

    Lispector at her most philosophically radical.
  • A Breath of Life

    Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2012

    A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.
  • Complete Stories

    Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2018

    One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories
  • The Besieged City

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Johnny Lorenz

    Hardback, 2019

    Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last
  • The Chandelier

    Clarice Lispector, Magdalena Edwards, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2019

    In paperback, Clarice Lispector’s explosive and surprising second novel
  • The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Paulo Gurgel Valente, Colm Tóibín

    Hardback, 2020

    Clarice Lispector’s best-selling masterpiece—“her finest book” (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son...
  • An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Sheila Heti, Benjamin Moser

    Hardback, 2021

    A love story by the great Clarice Lispector that asks: Just how might two people be joined?