A private meeting, chance encounters, and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage t...

Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly pai...

It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including such masterpieces as 'Le Cimeti...

In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the worldas the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.Transl...

Even in a state of geometrical grace we cannot see time as it is, only as it passes. So the river...

The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. I...

Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández...

For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York ...

The second set of New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series, which includes Vale Ave by H. D.; Eiko &...

A professor prepares to retire-Gustavo is set to move from São Paulo to the countryside, but it i...

Set in a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, The Hole follows three inmates as they plot to sneak i...

In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist...