Alejandra (New Directions) Pizarnik

The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.

The Galloping Hour: French Poems—never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime—gathers for the first time all the poems that Al

The first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S., poetry at the edge of impossibility.

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each work

Diana's Tree is an important book - written in Paris, where she lived for four years - and the first really mature work (1963) by Alejandra Pizarnik (

In een klein dorp in Mexico leeft de jonge Alejandra een uitzichtloos bestaan. Door armoede gedreven en op zoek naar genegenheid, verkoopt ze al op ha

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocrati

This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption t

Inspired by the great tradition of French love poetry, New Directions presents a beautiful, small gift edition, dedicated to what makes the world go r

Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their

Wist je dat de huid van een ijsbeer zwart is? En dat je elke Rubiks kubus in twintig zetten kunt oplossen? En dat de aarde 3 miljard jaar geleden miss

Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and In

The great German Romantic poet Friedrich Hoelderlin's spirit infuses this gorgeous cycle of poems that sing of the loves and devastations of our times

Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing-and then, just as sudde

A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense il

A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?

For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most fa

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller

In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys ar

A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novel