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    A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick

    Cathy Curtis

    Hardback

    The first biography of the extraordinary essayist and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semi-autobiographical novel Sleepless Nights

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    The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: A Novel

    Margaret Jull Costa, Lidia Jorge, Annie McDermott

    Hardback

    From the winner of the prestigious FIL Prize in Romance Languages comes this masterpiece saga of two clashing families in coastal Portugal

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    Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

    Aristophanes, Aaron Poochigian

    Paperback

    A “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.

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    The Golden Ass

    Apuleius, Peter Singer, Ellen Finkelpearl, Anna and Varvara Kendel

    Paperback

    Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.

  • Journey to the End of the Night

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann

    Paperback

    Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor