Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. ABU MUSA'S WOMEN NEIGHBORS is a tale of political intrigue, whose themes of power and its abuses and the relationship between the secular and the sacred are as much a
Cultural Writing. Drama. Translated from the German by P.J. Blumenthal. "Elfriede Jelinek, who was born in 1946 in Murzzuschlag, Austria, is the most verbally powerful writer in present-day German-lan
Poetry. In a polyphonic rhythm that picks you up and holds you, this series of 19 poems pops and snaps with a day's tattoo, registering the patterns of interference and exchange between the inner atmo
Ryoko Sekiguchi mingles her amblings in two oriental markets with forays into their languages, stumbling on consonants and vowels while avoiding dead-end alleys. Their unpredictable geometry is a mat
Poetry. "A series of meditations following the sun, SEASONS arrives in mesmerizing waves of observation and reflection. The blue depths of Adnan's inquiry--into the nature of Being, Time, knowledge it
Art Studies. Literary essays. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. Jean Fremon writes about painters he loves, contemporary and otherwise, about writers, whose books are sometimes named, and wh
Literary Nonfiction. Art. With an introduction by Ulla Dydo and nine paintings and drawings by the author. "Although artist George Deem's greatest contribution is surely his art, in which he explores
Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. Translated from the Greek by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis. Demosthenes Agrafiotis's MARIBOR is a book of thoughts
Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. Leslie Scalapino's new book of prose, THE DIHEDRONS GAZELLE-DIHEDRALS ZOOM, while a work that stands on its own, is book II as a pair with book I, FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR
Poetry. Illustrated with etchings by Russell Chatham. "Throughout the seven sections that are woven into a unified whole, Adnan displays a remarkable sensibility for the precise details that fuse
