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Oscar Wilde: Criticism
Edouard Roditi
Subsequent
Paperback
Edouard Roditi's critical study of Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1947 in New Directions' Makers of Modern Literature Series, was a...
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann
Paperback
Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor
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
The Famous Magician
César Aira, Chris Andrews
Hardback
A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?
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