Literature

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  The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

  Greg Delanty, Michael Matto, Seamus Heaney

  Paperback

  "A book the many fans of Heaney's Beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years." —Publishers Weekly

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  Lifespan of a Fact

  John D'Agata, Jim Fingal

  Paperback

  Now a Broadway Play.
  
  An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction.

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  The Walk

  Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky

  Paperback

  Robert Walser's preferred alternate version of his classic tale. In a new translation by Susan Bernofsky, The Walk is an elegant consideration of walking and the philosophical musings it engenders.

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  Antwerp

  Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer

  Paperback

  Bolaño’s radical first novel makes its paperback debut as a New Directions Pearl.

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  News from the World: Stories and Essays

  Paula Fox

  Paperback

  “Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel.”—Zadie Smith, Harper’s