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The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

D G Compton

• Paperback | Engels
• A prescient 1970s sci-fi novel about death, celebrity, and the ubiquity of reality television, and the basis for the movie Death Watch . Katherine Mor... Lees meer

Beyond the Pawpaw Trees

Palmer Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Anna Lavinia
• It all began on a lavender blue day--the kind of day when anything can happen. It was on such a day that Anna Lavinia's father saw a double rainbow an... Lees meer

Shapeshifter

Alice Paalen Rahon

• Paperback | Engels, Frans
• Poetry by one of the most powerful female figures in twentieth-century surrealism, now collected in English for the very first time. Alice Paalen Raho... Lees meer

The Company They Kept, Volume II

Robert B Silvers

• Hardcover | Engels
• Anna Akhmatova on Osip Mandelstam - Virgil Thomson on Gertrude Stein - Jonathan Miller on Lenny Bruce - Robert Lowell on John Berryman - Stephen Spend... Lees meer

Mirage

• Paperback | Engels
• First published anonymously in 1804--its author remains unknown-- Mirage is set in Guangzhou (Canton), some decades before the city was overwhelmed by... Lees meer

It Ain't Necessarily So

Richard Lewontin

• Paperback | Engels
• Is our nature--as individuals, as a species--determined by our evolution and encoded in our genes? If we unravel the protein sequences of our DNA, wil... Lees meer

Alfred and Guinevere

James Schuyler

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the finest American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, James Schuyler was at the same time a remarkable novelist. Alfred and Gu... Lees meer

Live; Live; Live

Jonathan Buckley

• Paperback | Engels
• A story of remembrance, desire, and the occult by one of Britain's finest contemporary novelists. The lapping of the waves was a lesson in mortality. ... Lees meer

Hey Willy, See the Pyramids

Maira Kalman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Nighttime is the best time for stories. And Lulu is the best storyteller. She knows about the three cross-eyed dogs at a fancy restaurant, about blue ... Lees meer

Fantastic Toys

Monika Beisner

• Hardcover | Engels
• This delightfully imaginative book catalogs eleven fantastical inventions of magical toys, with detailed descriptions and vivid illustrations that wil... Lees meer

The Collected Poems of Li He

Li He

• Paperback | Engels
• The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in deca... Lees meer

The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter

Matei Calinescu

• Paperback | Engels
• A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei Călinescu An NYRB Classics Original Ugly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives... Lees meer

My Friends

Emmanuel Bove

• Paperback | Engels
• Bove's tale of a World War I veteran living in postwar Paris, searching for friendship and warmth, is an ironic, entertaining masterpiece by one of Fr... Lees meer

Family and Borghesia

Natalia Ginzburg

• Paperback | Engels
• Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century. Carmine, an archit... Lees meer

Things That Bother Me

Galen Strawson

• Paperback | Engels
• An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism. Galen Strawson migh... Lees meer

A King Alone

Jean Giono

• Paperback | Engels
• An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English ... Lees meer

The Sorely Trying Day

Russell Hoban

• Hardcover | Engels
• Father has had a long hard day at work. A sorely trying day indeed. He wants to sit down and put his feet up and rest. But what does he find when he a... Lees meer

Anniversaries, Volume 2

Uwe Johnson

• Paperback | Engels
• The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Anniver... Lees meer

What's for Dinner?

James Schuyler

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books Classics
• James Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run a... Lees meer

Moravagine

Blaise Cendrars

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books Classics
• At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch--except that it's a lot more entertainin... Lees meer

Hill

Jean Giono

• Paperback | Engels
• An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwo... Lees meer

The House of Four Seasons

Roger Duvoisin

• Hardcover | Engels
• By the author of the bestselling picture book Petunia , The House of Four Seasons is a bright and lively family picture book about colors, imagination... Lees meer

Ghosts

Edith Wharton

• Paperback | Engels
• An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. No history of the Am... Lees meer

D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths

Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

• Paperback | Engels
• The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, tell... Lees meer