The year is 1938. The great Russian poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam is forty-seven years old and is dying in a transit camp near Vladivostok after having been arrested by Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into exile wi...

The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's never enough of it in their family.   Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt Fe descends on the city....

Marked by powerful and evocative prose, Ferenc Barnas's novel tells the fascinating story of a young man's journey through his strange obsessions towards possible recovery. The unnamed narrator is the parasite, feeding off others' ailments, but he is...

In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making. Origami cran...

"Porcelain" is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grunbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at...

We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, "this not to come... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Helene Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book – and the latest chapter...

Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to a line-by-line translation in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help student...

Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to a line-by-line translation in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help student...

Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to a line-by-line translation in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help student...

Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to a line-by-line translation in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help student...