99 poems in translation

Christopher durang explains it all for you

Few playwrights have explored as relentlessly as Christopher Durang the pain and confusion of everyday life-or made us laugh so uproariously at the results.

Nip the buds, shoot the kids

The inquisitors' manual

An international best-seller and the novel that established Antune’s reputation in Europe, The Inquistor’s Manual is a harrowing indictment of Portuguese fascism.António Lobo Antunes is one of the great European literary masters, a writer of whom The Boston Globe has said, “When Antunes is in ful...

Goodnight, nobody

This luminous new collection of stories from the author of Dogfight and Divining Rod astutely explores rediscovered love, reconciliation, and peace amid the trials of everyday life. In each story in Goodnight, Nobody, characters are surprised by their mettle even as they recognize their fallibili...

Black folktales

Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius Lester.Arranged by topic — Origins, Love, Heroes, and People — the tales combine universal themes and uncanny wisdom. Though some of these stories hav...

The long night of white chickens

Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Long Night of White Chickens marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman’s internationally acclaimed writing career.The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of two worlds: It is the story ...

Finding florida

Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearOver the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, “god’s waiting room,” and a place to start over. Depopulated ...

Selected works

“Terrence McNally is one of our most original and audacious dramatists, and one of our funniest.”—New YorkerSince his first play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, which premiered in 1965, McNally has proven himself to be a trailblazing figure and unique voice in American theater, known for h...

White protestant nation

The crazy iris

Empire's crossroads

Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, historian Carrie Gibson offers a vivid, panoramic view of this complex ...

The blood of heaven

The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out...

The two-step

Ever since Adam wooed Eve (or was it the other way around?), couples have been bedeviled by the thorny path of love. Why do all couples have such a difficult time becoming-and remaining-close? Now, for everyone who has ever struggled with the pain of an unhappy relationship, psychotherapist Eilee...

The giant of the french revolution

George-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind the French Revolution, which brought an end to an absolute monarchy that had ruled for nearly one thousand years. In The Giant of The French Revolution, David Lawday reveals the larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the B...

The ubu plays

Once is not enough

The love machine

The rise of germany, 1939-1941

The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fixed, framed by the accounts of participants and an early generation of historians. James Holland, one of the leading young historians of World War II,...

The cry of the owl

In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window. Soon, he can’t keep himself away. But when Robert is inevitably discovered, o...

The collected short fiction of bruce jay friedman

Contact wounds

Cleopatra dismounts

Carmen Boullosa is one of Latin America's most original voices, and in Cleopatra Dismounts she has written a remarkable reconstruction of the life of the Egyptian queen, who famously died in Marc Antony's arms. But is this really the true Cleopatra?Through the intervention of Cleopatra's scribe a...

The children's hospital

Composing a life

The coming of the night

A stunning evocation of gay desire in the moment just before AIDs by the acclaimed author of City of Night: "Taut writing and unapologetic sexual energy" (The Dallas Morning News).It is 1981, a hot summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Jesse, "the kid," is celebrating one...

Zen poetry

The mrozek reader

Slawomir Mrozek has reigned as the preeminent playwright and satirist of Eastern Europe for the past half century. A sharp critic of all oppressive systems during the Cold War, he began his career as a young enthusiast for the new Communist regime in the early 1950s. It didn't take long, however,...

Arrow of the blue-skinned god

Madame de pompadour

Homer's the iliad and the odyssey

The essential pinter

An indispensable companion for anyone wishing to delve into the astonishingly dazzling and frequently ominous world of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright which includes key plays, poetry, essays, and screenplays.Harold Pinter is one of our most profound poets and playwrights, with work ranging fr...

Witches on the road tonight

As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alley’s quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother’s witchcraft. But when he's visited by a writer and glamorous photographer researching American folklore for the WPA, the spell of his mother’s unorthodox life is violently disru...

Largo desolato

The lie

“Lyrical and haunting...With this novel, Dunmore should rank high among writers like Kipling who explore war, its aftermath, and its lies.”—Washington Independent Review of Books“A poignant reminder that throughout history, the battle is far from over after a soldier returns home....As this impe...

The visitors and fred and madge

The waverly gallery

1959

A powerful, poignant coming-of-age novel that captures a dramatic moment in American history as clearly as a photograph.It's the summer of 1959 and Willie Tarrant of Turner, Virginia, is twelve. Her father and other adults in the town are worried about integration—how it will affect their childre...

Proverbs

Anthology of chinese literature: volume ii

Happiness

The fever

Wallace Shawn's The Fever is the winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play and soon to be a film starring Vanessa Redgrave. While visiting a poverty-stricken country far from home, the unnamed narrator of The Fever is forced to witness the political persecution occurring just beyond a hotel win...

Before the end, after the beginning

Before the End, After the Beginning is a personal and honest collection of ten exquisite stories from Dagoberto Gilb. The pieces come in the wake of a stroke Gilb suffered at his home in Austin, Texas, in 2009, and a majority of the stories were written over many months of recovery. The result i...

The book of songs

Three plays by kaufman and hart

The future eaters

Artemisia

An international best-seller, Alexandra Lapierre's Artemisia sweeps us through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and into the studios of artists who used their daggers as efficiently as their brushes. Born in the early 1600s when artists were the celebrities of th...

The physicists

The Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe’s foremost dramatists and the author of the internationally celebrated The Visit. The world’s greatest physicist, Johann Wilhelm Möbius, is in a madhouse, haunted by recurring visions of King Sol...

The blindness of the heart

An international best seller and winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices—a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Hele...

Hellfire