A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century. Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high...

The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis. One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of...

"Best Love to All" is an account of the experiences of the author's grandfather as a young officer on the Western Front with the Liverpool Pals. Based on his unpublished letters and diaries, it covers his participation in the battles of Arras and Ypr...

A compelling and lucid account of the life and teachings of a founder of rabbinic Judaism and one of the most beloved heroes of Jewish history. Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was the greatest rabbi of his time and on...

A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction. American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction, in...

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In "Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell", Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a...

New, hitherto unseen, first-hand accounts of the battle of Arnhem, the heroic Allied military operation known as "Market Garden", become rarer as time passes. "Chig: Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem" is the story of a choir boy, who became a...

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post-World War II era. An astonishing polymath – poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director – he exerted profound i...

If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever...

In this heartfelt memoir, Maria Wallisfurth recounts the lives of her deaf parents in Germany from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. Her mother, Maria Giefer, was born in 1897 and her father, Wilhelm Sistermann, was born in 1896. T...