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Ulitskaya weaves a dense narrative of the lives touched by Br. Daniel Stein. Ulitskaya's (The Funeral Party) ambitious effort is a kind of case file composed of conversations, lectures, sermons, and...

Named a Must-Read Book by New York Magazine, Travel+Leisure, Flavorwire, and BustleLong-listed for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award in FictionWith epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila...

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick - A Library Journal choice for Best World Literature of 2023 - A...

One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century...

Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors.Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When...

Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize Winner of a PEN Translates Award A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of...

"Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp. Jeanette Winterson and Shahrazad are the perfect co-pilots to take us into new worlds on the wings of old stories."--Kamila Shamsie, award-winning author of...

In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help...

This book sets out to present a Christian understanding of God in terms of the fundamental category of 'God as Spirit'. It shows that such an approach offers an alternative and preferable way of...

When Amy Clampitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant. The poet was sixty-three years old, and there had been no debut like hers in recent...

Volume 16 of Transaction's acclaimed Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities series, continues the work of Project Theophrastus on the School of Aristotle. The subject of this volume is...

A dual-language edition of Russian stories—many appearing in English for the first time   This new volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the...

Learn the basics to bridge in this fun, easy-to-understand guide!The Fun Way To Serious Bridge is for anyone who wants to learn and understand the fundamentals of the mind-stimulating and challenging...

This book is the result of lectures which I gave dur ing the academic year 1972-73 to third-year students a~ Aarhus University in Denmark. The purpose of the book, as of the lectures, is to survey...

This debut collection of poetry demonstrates an illuminating diversity and consummate virtuosity in its keen observations of, and response to, the world around

An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three...