Literature
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
Paperback
Michael Gorra, one of America’s most preeminent literary critics, asks how we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.
Aladdin: A New Translation
Paperback
A dynamic French-Syrian translator, lauded for her lively poetic voice, tackles the enchanted world of Aladdin in this sparkling new translation.
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Hardback
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.
Inferno
Paperback
Dante's immortal vision of Hell shines "as it never did before in English verse" (Edward Mendelson) in Clive James's new translation of Inferno.
Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose
Paperback
Russia’s foremost modernist master in a major new translation