Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the ...

Here are portraits of American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopeles...

Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convi...

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin A...

The eight powerful stories of The Shooting Gallery examine the lives of single women coping with ...

In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young ...

With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous bre...

In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consul in Madrid, and so horrified by the civil war and the mur...

In an ancient Mediterranean city, a tradition is maintained: every ten years an archaic game of h...

Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly...

Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a to...

Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the huma...