Literature

• Featured

  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

• Featured

  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

• Featured

  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.

• Featured

  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