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  • The English Understand Wool

    Helen DeWitt

    Hardback

    Maman was exigeante—there is no English word—and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.

  • Three Streets

    Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

    Hardback

    Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin

  • The Woman Who Killed the Fish

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

    Hardback

    Four beguiling tales for children of all ages.

    A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius

  • Early Light

    Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene, Ralph McCarthy

    Hardback

    Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human

  • Spadework for a Palace

    László Krasznahorkai, John Batki

    Hardback

    A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds