Literature

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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.

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  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

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  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

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  Spadework for a Palace

  László Krasznahorkai, John Batki

  Hardback

  WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE 

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

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  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