In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed "December", a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept p...

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, "The Daily Henry James" is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom – a limited edition quo...

When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp – a center of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Isr...

The hotly anticipated new collection by an energetic young Scottish poet.

Noah Warren's brilliant collection of poetry, "The Destroyer in the Glass", is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the...

H?kan Sandell's "Dog Star Notations" is the first selection available in English from one of contemporary Sweden's finest poets. Since abandoning a university education decades ago, Sandell has resolutely gone his own way, drawing on any tradition th...

Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel "The Dirty Dust" is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley's vigorous new t...

In "Dante and the Limits of the Law", Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's "Divine Comedy". Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchical jurisdi...

Midsummer Cambridge, MA, 2008 Midsummer. Finally, you are used to disappointment. A baby touches phlox. Many failures, many botched attempts, A little success in unexpected forms. This is how the rest will go: The gravel raked, bricks ashen, bees fat...

Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and letters home during the early 1980s, "The Deaf Heart" chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of...