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"One of the great originals of modern European poetry and Portugal's premier modernist."--Washington Post "Pessoa has had many English-language interpreters but none better than Richard Zenith."--New...

A Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Though known primarily as a poet, Fernando Pessoa, a writer of "remarkable genius" (Washington Post) wrote prose widely, in several...

"One of the great originals of modern European poetry and Portugal's premier modernist."--Washington Post "Pessoa has had many English-language interpreters but none better than Richard Zenith."--New...

Vitezslav Orel Mendel

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Winner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable...

Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese...

The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis in modern Judaism  “Accessible, informed, and balanced. . . . The author manages to tread on...

"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."--Publishers Weekly"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output...

In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African...

The racy and irreverent Spanish tragicomedy that is considered the first European novel-in a spirited new translationA Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's...

A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time, Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is edited and translated with an...

"Sincerity is the one great artistic crime. Insincerity is the second greatest." In addition to his literary and fictional works, Fernando Pessoa wrote a multiplicity of theoretical texts concerning...

From a private collection in Italy, these previously unpublished works by Francis Bacon are presented here in thematic sections, each of which is preceded by a short introductory text. Nearly 700...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and Alta“Flores’s style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it’s as if he feels he’s inventing literature for the...

A Variety best music book of 2024A FLOOD best music book of 2024A Clash best music book of 2024A Mother Jones best book of 2024"In a career and life full of fictions, the truth—as this excellent,...

The celebrated Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, who lived in Madrid under the oppression of the Franco regime, writes passionately of human atrocity and of hope. This collection of plays embodies...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and Alta“Flores’s style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it’s as if he feels he’s inventing literature for the...

Buddhist wisdom for finding freedom and insight through spiritual practice in the midst of illness and pain. "Let your illness be your spiritual teacher!" Make a statement like that to someone who's...

This volume presents a broad range of knowledge about the organization of the segmental motor apparatus of mammals. Over the past 30 years, the mammalian segmental motor system has served as a...

Scientists around the world rise up for climate and ecological justice In April 2022, hundreds of scientists rose in civil disobedience, breaking the law in more than twenty-eight countries. Risking...