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Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolano

Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews

A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition.

"It's the sort of clever idea an author like Borges might sketch out in the short space of one of his stories -- but what's so remarkable is that Bolano takes the idea and sees it through... Nazi Literature in the Americas is an astonishing work." -- The Complete Review

Love Poems, by Pablo Neruda

Translated from the Spanish by Donald D. Walsh

A beautiful new gift book of Pablo Neruda's greatest love poems for all occasions.

"One of the greatest major poets of the twentieth century." --The New York Times Book Review

My Unwritten Books, by George Steiner

By one of the world's foremost intellectuals, George Steiner's My Unwritten Books meditates upon seven books he had long had in mind to write, but never did. Massively erudite, the essays are also brave, unflinching, and wholly personal.

Bass Cathedral, by Nathaniel Mackey

The Great American Jazz Novel by Nathaniel Mackey, winner of the 2006 National Book Award

The Book of Words, by Jenny Erpenbeck

Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors.

Descartes' Loneliness, by Allen Grossman

A new, breakthrough collection by "one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets" (Harold Bloom).

Souls of the Labadie Tract, by Susan Howe

Souls of the Labadie Tract finds Susan Howe exploring (or unsettling) one of her favorite domains, the psychic past of America, with Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens as her presiding tutelary geniuses.

My Emily Dickinson, by Susan Howe

New Introduction by Eliot Weinberger

For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art."  Susan Howe -- taking poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides--embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award).

New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton

New Introduction by Sue Monk Kidd

New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books.  Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, and some have compared Merton's reflections to those of Thoreau.

On Non-Violence, by Mohandas Gandhi

Edited, with an introduction, by Thomas Merton; New Preface by Mark Kurlansky

The basic principles of Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (ahimsa) and non-violent action (satyagraha) were chosen by Thomas Merton for this compendium in 1965.  In his challenging Introduction, Merton emphasizes action rather than pacifism as essential to non-violence, and illustrates how the foundations of Gandhi's universal truths are linked to traditional Hindu Dharma, the Greek philosophers, and the teachings of Jesus Christ.

A Child's Christmas In Wales, by Dylan Thomas

With woodcuts by Ellen Raskin

This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century, and is now a modern classic.  Dylan Thomas captures a child's-eye view, and an adult's fond remembrance, of a magical time of presents, good things to eat, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and, in the best of circumstances, newly-fallen snow--its wonder, silence, and snowball mischief.

Nickel Mountain, by John Gardner

John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love

"No one tracks the emotional landscape of characters better than John Gardner. In language both supple and precise Nickel Mountain explores the price and the prize of being human." --Toni Morrison

Unrecounted, by W. G. Sebald

Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger; with lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp

A keepsake of one of the greatest writers of our time, Unrecounted comes as an unexpected gift to all the readers who loved W.G. Sebald.

Field-Russia, by Gennady Aygi

The central work by the world-famous Chuvashian who "writes with an imagistic compression and real time candor that is utterly unique" (Publishers Weekly).

Low Country, by John Allman

A moving and eloquent new collection of poetry celebrating Allman's winter home in South Carolina.

Poetry As Insurgent Art, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

After a lifetime, this (r)evolutionary little book is still a work-in-progress, the poet's ars poetica, to which at 88 he is constantly adding.

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume I: Fever and Spear, by Javier Marias

Translated from the Spanish by Margaret jull Costa

A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer" (The Boston Globe) -- now in paperback

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume II

Edited by Albert J. Devlin; Co-Edited by Nancy M. Tischler

"His letters are among the century's finest." --John Lahr, The New Yorker

Cinema Stories, by Alexander Kluge

Translated from the German by Martin Brady

"Alexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifies -- along with Passolini -- what is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist. . . ." --Susan Sontag