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The Stone Door is one of Mexican-English painter and writer Leonora Carrington’s strangest creations, at once a symbolic...
07/22/2025

The Stone Door is one of Mexican-English painter and writer Leonora Carrington’s strangest creations, at once a symbolic tale of adventure and a veiled autobiography, celebrating her marriage to the Hungarian photographer Emérico “Chiki” Weisz. At its heart are a man and woman, around whom a series of linked, surreal episodes are woven. He is named Zacharias, and lives on the Hungarian plain; she, unnamed, resides in Mexico City. They are predestined to meet, and are each drawn to the image of a stone door which, if opened, will lead to their union.

Terminal Exposure is the first-ever collected edition of the comics of Michael McMillan, which appear alongside a selection of his sculptural works, photographs, paintings, and pages from his journals. McMillan, weaned on the underground comics scene of late 60s and early 70s San Francisco, is a raconteur and lifelong outsider whose continual artistic experimentation has pushed the boundaries of comics and fine art. McMillan’s work encompasses his passion for climbing and the California outdoors, his anarchic, take-no-prisoners sense of humor, often aimed inward, and his love for genre film of the ’30s and ’40s.

Both The Stone Door and Terminal Exposure come out today!

Edward Gorey collaborations with Rhoda Levine.
07/18/2025

Edward Gorey collaborations with Rhoda Levine.

Two new books on sale today—The Accidental Garden is an intimate portrait of the two-acre plot that English writer-natur...
07/15/2025

Two new books on sale today—

The Accidental Garden is an intimate portrait of the two-acre plot that English writer-naturalist Richard Mabey and his partner Polly have cultivated for decades. Here, between their home and the surrounding Norfolk fields, marshes, and forests, Mabey has constructed his own vision of “the most commodious of institutions, the garden.” A keen observer of the natural world who has dedicated his writing life to examining its porous relation to human influence, Mabey sees the garden as the ultimate symbol of the intermediary space between nature and culture, a microcosm of our efforts to exert control over the land and generative evidence of the surprises the land, in turn, reserves for us.

The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man’yōshū, is considered, along with The Tale of Genji, to be one of the most important works in classical Japanese literature. The title means “anthology of ten thousand leaves,” the anthology of anthologies from the first flowering of artistic and literary sensibility during the Asuka and Nara periods—the seventh and eighth centuries. This volume reproduces the first five books of the original Man’yōshū, with an introduction and notes by the translator, Ian Hideo Levy, whose elegant and informative edition was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Richard Hell’s Godlike transposes the notorious romance between Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud to the East Village in ...
07/08/2025

Richard Hell’s Godlike transposes the notorious romance between Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud to the East Village in its squalid, glorious ’70s heyday. Godlike is a tribute to poetry and the beauty and mess of art, desire, and New York City. This new edition, with an introduction by Raymond Foye, comes out in February.

Out today: Honoré de Balzac’s The Girl with the Golden Eyes (trans. Carol Cosman), one of the most memorable and fantast...
07/01/2025

Out today: Honoré de Balzac’s The Girl with the Golden Eyes (trans. Carol Cosman), one of the most memorable and fantastic episodes in the author’s Human Comedy. It tells the story of Henri de Marsay, a handsome and hedonistic Parisian who becomes infatuated with a girl with “two yellow eyes like the eyes of a tiger”—an obsession that resolves in bitter truths and a shocking moment of bloodshed. An inspiration to Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust, Balzac’s novel is a sumptuously plotted and unforgettably dark vision of Paris and human sexuality.

Two new books out today: A sequel of sorts to the author’s Spanish Civil War novel Uncertain Glory, Joan Sales’s Winds o...
06/24/2025

Two new books out today:

A sequel of sorts to the author’s Spanish Civil War novel Uncertain Glory, Joan Sales’s Winds of the Night (trans. Peter Bush) is a delirious and excoriating story of a Catalan priest spiritually wrecked by the horrors of warfare and the many cruelties of Franco’s rule. Fans of Thomas Bernhard will likely enjoy this one.

In the Roar of the Machine (trans. Eleanor Goodman) is a collection by Chinese poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, a writer who spent nearly a decade working in the factories and warehouses of Guangdong Province, one of the largest manufacturing centers in the world. Mixing the pastoral with the horrifyingly mechanical, these poems give voice to the global economy’s human toll.

Three new books out today: A new translation (by Mark Polizzotti) of André Breton’s Nadja, a strange and exuberant love ...
06/17/2025

Three new books out today:

A new translation (by Mark Polizzotti) of André Breton’s Nadja, a strange and exuberant love story and one of the defining texts of the surrealist movement.

Cesare Pavese’s Hard Labor (trans. William Arrowsmith), a collection of terse and unsentimental poems written while Pavese was in exile for “antifascist activities.”

Konstantin Vaginov’s Goat Song (trans. Ainsley Morse & Geoff Cebula), a volume of two mercilessly ironic novels by an early and exemplary figure of Soviet modernist writing.

Pierre Guyotat’s Idiocy is coming this September in its first English translation (by Peter Behrman de Sinety). In this ...
06/11/2025

Pierre Guyotat’s Idiocy is coming this September in its first English translation (by Peter Behrman de Sinety). In this coming-of-age memoir, set between 1958 and 1962, Guyotat recounts his childhood with an overbearing father, his burgeoning sexuality, and the atrocities he witnessed firsthand during the Algerian War, including his own harrowing experience of being imprisoned in a hole in the ground for three months for purported incitement of desertion.

Winner of the 2018 Prix Médicis, this bracing, hallucinatory narrative is both an incisive condemnation of violence and colonialism, and an invaluable key to the oeuvre of a writer hailed by Edmund White as “one of the few geniuses of our day.”

New books this week—Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. His masterpiece, A Fortunate Man, tell...
06/10/2025

New books this week—

Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. His masterpiece, A Fortunate Man, tells the story of Per Sidenius, a Lutheran pastor’s son who revolts against his family and flees for Copenhagen from the backwaters of Jutland. Per is handsome, ambitious, and hungry for the technological future of the twentieth century. He studies engineering and draws up plans to transform Denmark into a commercial giant. But his relentless quest for progress soon clashes with the force of tradition.

Pontoppidan’s novella The White Bear follows the fate of Thorkild Müller, an odd, gangly, red-bearded priest. Thorkild is assigned to a remote Inuit tribe in Greenland. There, with his mythic-looking staff and dogskin skullcap, he becomes known as the White Bear—a beloved legend among the locals and a freewheeling embarrassment to his fellow priests. Grown old, he returns to Denmark, where again his flock adores him while his fellow men of cloth try to tame the “whirling dervish in their midst.”

Another great nineteenth-century novel, Benito Pérez Galdós’s Miaow is set among Madrid’s teeming bureaucracy. Ramón Villaamil has been a loyal civil servant his whole life, but was let go two months before he reached his pension. He and his wife and daughters—whose feline appearances earn them the nickname “the Miaows”—are desperate for money, work, and a little joy in their lives. Comparable to Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, Galdós was a master of satirizing middle-class life. Miaow serves up a scathing critique of the hypocrisy and corruption of nineteenth-century Spanish society and the dehumanizing rituals of work.

Our summer protagonist is Per Sidenius.
06/06/2025

Our summer protagonist is Per Sidenius.

“It isn’t necessarily a good thing when a publisher brings out a writer’s uncollected stories…. There’s no such problem,...
05/26/2025

“It isn’t necessarily a good thing when a publisher brings out a writer’s uncollected stories…. There’s no such problem, however, with Mavis Gallant’s Uncollected Stories…. Each [story] is so good you have to pace yourself….”

Cover art: detail from Goya’s Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (Red Boy with tethered magpie not shown).
05/18/2025

Cover art: detail from Goya’s Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (Red Boy with tethered magpie not shown).

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