Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan’s top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko
Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentine village of Laborde holds the national malambo contest. Centuries-old, this shatteringly demanding traditional gaucho dance is governed by the
Resembling a musical sextet where no two instruments are the same, but all instruments blend to form a single sound, Henry Miller's Sextet combines six jive-talkin', fresh, and impromptu pieces of wr
Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas’s finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked b
Published as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based.
Jimmy Baca's poetry draws on his Southwestern-Chicano background as orphan, father, poet, prisoner, to write popular, exciting poetry that has special appeal to the disenfranchised.
Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto BolaAno. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: a trove of strangely arresting, short master works.
Much expanded, this selection of essays by Tennessee Williams includes such famous pieces as the debilitating effect that success had on Williams (when he had to escape from New York and success), es
An avant-garde poet, Yoko Tawada writes a very experimental novel about a young Vietnamese girl is invited to a youth conference in East Berlin. While there she is kidnapped but manages to escape her
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Mar!as is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, N
