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In the "Phaedrus" Plato(427-347 B.C.) is concerned with establishing the principles of rhetoric. Through the mouths of Socrates and Phaedrus he argues that rhetoric is only acceptable as an...

The long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano series"At eighty, I foresaw Montalbano's departure from the scene, I got the idea and I...

Western governments and elites have supported the destruction of Gaza, silencing the Palestinians and those who speak on their behalf.Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes...

From the "Mo Willems of Sweden," award-winning author/illustrator Emma Adbage captures a funny and true-to-life story about a little boy who hurts himself at school and is suddenly thrust into the...

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author Tab, an itinerant Czech actor, travels around Europe on the theater circuit...

This landmark book is the first comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war. Gathering never-before-published eyewitness accounts from...

"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. . . . [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An orphan finds comfort in the...

The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek--a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts ...

First published in 1902 and immediately assailed for its themes of omnisexual abandon and perverse aestheticism, The Immoralist is the novel that launched André Gide’s reputation as one of France’s...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEFrom one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing...

Available in a beautiful print edition for the first time, this brilliant lecture delivered by László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads like an unforgettable short...

Riad is a teenager growing up in the French region of Brittany, where he lives with his mother and brother and attends high school in Rennes. But his adolescence is anything but typical. Born to a...

Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from Kuki, a prestigious design magazine: travel to a massive data center in Norway and coat...

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of...

A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Temptation is a rediscovered...

“An enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City.” —Francisco GoldmanAuxilio Lacouture is the mother of Mexican poetry. Uruguayan by birth, Mexican by...

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France’s most famous living literary figureIt’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University...

For readers of David Harvey and Thomas Piketty comes a new introduction to Marx’s Capital from the author of the internationally bestselling book Slow Down.The follow-up to his global bestseller Slow...