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 Woman Who Killed the Fish

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2022

    Four beguiling tales for children of all ages.

    A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius

  • The Apple in the Dark

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2023

    “The best one,” as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novel
  • The Apple in the Dark

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

    E Book

    “The best one,” as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novel
  • Portraits in Life and Death

    Peter Hujar, Benjamin Moser, Susan Sontag

    Hardback, 2024

    A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser
  • Portraits in Life and Death

    Peter Hujar, Benjamin Moser, Susan Sontag

    E Book

    A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser
  • The Besieged City

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Johnny Lorenz

    Paperback, 2024

    Now in paperback, The Besieged City—Clarice Lispector’s electrifying third novel—tells of a shallow girl becoming a desirable but highly materialistic woman in a rough-and-ready town