Literature

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  • The Naked Eye

    Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback

    “Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times

  • Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

    Maria Tatar

    Hardback

    Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read.

  • Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

    Svetlana Alexievich

    Paperback

    Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” —Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation

  • Body of Lies: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Movie Tie-in Edition

    Paperback

    The novel made into the major motion picture released October 2008, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe: "Clever [and] well-paced, Body of Lies is hard to put down."—John Miller, Wall Street Journal

  • In the Rose of Time: Poems, 1931-1956

    Robert Fitzgerald

    Paperback

    “Bei Dao’s poetry translates well in its bold imagery and implicit and oblique politics, using nature in a symbolism of indirection that is as subtle as it is apparent.” —The Harvard Review