The year is 323 bce. King Alexander of Macedonia – Alexander the Great – lies paralyzed by poison in his palace in Babylon. He is thirty-two years old, had Aristotle as a mentor, and is the greatest military commander the world has ever seen. At the...

Fawzi Karim's poetry has been widely translated, among other languages into French, Swedish, Italian and English. Carcanet published "The Plague Lands and Other Poems" (2011), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This new selection, transl...

Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, "Impostors" examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not,...

Arthur Rimbaud's "Illuminations", first published in 1886, changed the language of poetry; in John Ashbery the book has a translator whose virtuosic originality brings Rimbaud's visions to life in English. The "crystalline jumble" of Illuminations, J...

Despite his disingenuous claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, "Urgent Copy" (1968) and "Homage to Qwert Yuiop" (1986); a posthumous collection of occasi...

"In the Quiet Season & Other Stories" explores the human landscape of Alaska. While the stories take place in modern-day towns, each is laced with a timelessness that comes from their roots in ageless issues: broken trust and heartbreak, hope and reb...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Imaginary Lives" remains, over 120 years since its original publication in French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized, yet a decisive influence on such writers as Apollinaire, Borges, Jarry and A...

First full debut from a promising young poet reflects a risky exploration of the unfamiliar and a search for strangeness, spirituality and stories.

A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new".Interacting with Print" delivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical mon...

Thirteen-year-old Booker leads a sheltered life in Vermont – until a spellbinding relic throws him skidding into a world of magic and myths come to life. Anna is an Unangax? teenager looking for answers after her long-absent mother reappears in her l...