Literature
The Famous Magician
Hardback
A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?
The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
Paperback
Aira's latest concerns a reluctant but powerful doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help a hopeless patient.
Rashomon and Other Stories
Paperback
This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” —Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation
The Divine Comedy
Paperback
“Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen Greenblatt