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Thalia Field
Paperback
A remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers
The Golden Ass
Apuleius, Peter Singer, Ellen Finkelpearl, Anna and Varvara Kendel
Hardback
Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.
The German Lesson
Siegfried Lenz
Paperback
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine...
Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Aristophanes, Aaron Poochigian
Hardback
A “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.
Ellis Island
Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Mónica de la Torre
Paperback
A moving hybrid work about Ellis Island and immigration by the marvelous Georges Perec