In this strikingly original memoir, Marie Bronsard reweaves the history of her family – and the legend of her grandmother – leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the closet. Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once a vibra...

Selected from the pages of "Le Monde", the interviews conducted by Florence Noiville are unequaled in literary journalism. In "Literary Miniatures", Noiville captures the words and views of some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, eng...

The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently wise Cyrus Golden the Lion rules the three-city state that is now what remains of Europe. Yet, other forces stir while...

In the autumn of 1924 the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that rewrote the history books: he proclaimed the discovery of the civilization of the Indus valley. Within weeks, Marshall's discovery was recognized as on the same s...

In these three short books – "Servabo: A Fin De Siecle Memoir", "Miss Kirchgessner", and "The Medlar Tree", collected in one volume in English for the first time – Luigi Pinto retraces a life marked, often in spite of itself, by politics. At once int...

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady's "Mutability" marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. In poems and prose, these scripts offer a "model of duplicity", revealing...

"Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China" is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theater in the People's Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical pers...

"Quorum", the latest book from William Fuller, is a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Employing an ear "that hears not what the eye / sees not, in detail", the poet makes his rounds through a...

An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In "Reckitt's Blue", John Wilkinson explores that well-...

The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. "The Literary Lacan: From Literature to 'Lituraterre' and Beyond" is de...