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Henry Miller
The Colossus of Maroussi
With an introduction by Will Self and an Afterword by Ian S. MacNiven
$12.95 US/$16.00 CAN
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1857-3

“One of the five greatest travel books of all time.”
—Pico Iyer

“Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in his story of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete.”
—National Geographic

“Miller’s Colossus of Maroussi, a paean to Greece drawn out of a nine-month visit ... the gestation time for a human and, in Miller’s case, for the imaginative re-creation of a country, a culture and his own fierce energies.”
—Richard Eder, The New York Times

Henry Miller
Sextet
$14.95 US/$18.50 CAN
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1800-9

“The people that banned words in books didn’t stop people from buying those books. If you couldn’t buy Henry Miller in the early sixties, you could go to Paris or England. We used to go to Paris, and everybody would buy Henry Miller books because they were banned, and everybody saw them, all the students had them. I don’t believe words can harm you.”
—John Lennon

“One of the few honest and uncompromising American writers.”
—Hunter S. Thompson

“Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive accepter of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.”
—George Orwell

Thomas Merton
The Way of Chuang Tzu
New Preface by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
$11.95 US/$15.00 CAN
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1851-1

“A most admirable introduction to this less known but important source book of Taoism.”
—Alan Watts, The New York Times Book Review

“Thomas Merton is the saintly man who caused the Dalai Lama to come to admire Christianity as the equal of his beloved Buddhism.”
—Robert Thurman

“Merton is an artist, a Zen.”
—Thich Naht Hanh

Roberto Bolaño
Monsieur Pain
Translated by Chris Andrews
$22.95 US / $28.50 CAN
ISBN 978-0-8112-1714-9

“Roberto Bolaño was an examplary literary rebel. To drag fiction toward the unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method with which to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the results are multi-dimensional."
 —Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books

“Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own.”
—Francisco Goldman, The New York Times Magazine

“John Coltrane jamming with the Sex Pistols.”
—John M. Richardson, Esquire

Yukio Mishima
Patriotism
Translated by Geoffrey W. Sargent
$9.95 US/ $12.50 CAN
ISBN 978-0-8112-1854-2

One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.

“A palpable energy of brilliance and wit.”
—The Believer

“Patriotism is my favorite story.”
—Yukio Mishima

Tennessee Williams
Tales of Desire
$9.95 US/ $12.50 CAN
ISBN 978-0-8112-1856-6

“I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny.”
— John Waters

One of the world’s greatest playwrights (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire), Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was also a master of the short story with “a narrative tone of voice that is totally compelling” (Gore Vidal).

Javier Marías
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico
Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
$9.95 US/ $12.50 CAN
ISBN 978-0-8112-1858-0

“It all happened because of Elvis Presley.”

A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly.  When the local kingpin demands to be told what the Americans are saying, Elvis himself delivers an even more stinging parting shot–and who has to translate that?

“Sexy, contemplative, elusive, and addictive.”
—San Francisco Bay Guardian

Federico García Lorca
In Search of Duende 
Prose selections edited and translated by Christopher Maurer
Poems translated from the Spanish by Norman di Giovanni, Edwin Honig, Langston Hughes, Lysander Kemp, W. S. Merwin, Stephen Spender, J. L. Gili and Christopher Maurer
$9.95 US/ $12.50 CAN
ISBN 978-0-8112-1855-9

An excellent compilation of Lorca’s poetry and prose, emphasizing Lorca’s notion of the duende, the “earth spirit of irrationality and death.”

“Spain’s great poet and playwright is being rediscovered.”               
—The New York Times

Elias Canetti
Party in the Blitz: The English Years
Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann; with an Afterword by Jeremy Adler
$13.95 US
ISBN 978-0-8112-1830-6

“This is the fourth and final volume of Elias Canetti’s memoirs. Its predecessors...were poised, richly detailed and slightly dull; Party in the Blitz, however, is chaotic... and horribly fascinating.”                      
—John Banville, The Nation

“Before there was the mysterious W.G. Sebald, there was the even more mysterious Elias Canetti.”                           
—Clive James, The New York Times Book Review

“Canetti invites—indeed, compels—judgment. His exacting presence honors literature.” 
 —George Steiner, The New Yorker

Luljeta Lleshanaku
Child of Nature
Translated by Henry Israeli and Shpresa Qatipi
$13.95 US
ISBN 978-0-8112-1847-4

In my house praying was considered a weakness,
like making love.
And like making love
it was followed by a long night
of fear,
so alone with the body.

         —Luljeta Lleshanaku

“Lleshanaku does not dwell on the harsh past and the brutal climate she knew as a child. Rather, she celebrates the variety of new experience, filling her verse with powerful imagery and stark, surprising visions.”
—Multicultural Review

“She is a love poet.... She makes explicit what it means to live in a violent and corrupt public world which penetrates privacy and betrays every intimacy.”
—Allen Grossman

Bei Dao
The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems
Edited by Eliot Weinberger
Bilingual
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1848-1; $16.95 US / 21.00 CAN

in the mirror there is always this moment
this moment leads to the door of rebirth
the door opens to the sea
the rose of time

—Bei Dao

“Bei Dao uses words as if he were fighting for his life with them.... [He] has found a way to speak to all of us.”
—Jonathan Spence, NY Times Book Review

“Bei Dao’s writing provides ample evidence of the written word’s potential to effect political change.”     
—Andrew Ervin, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Javier Marías
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Three: Poison, Shadow and Farewell
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1812-2, US $24.95 / CAN $31.00

“This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age.”
—Antony Beevor, The Sunday London Telegraph (Books of the Year)

“Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared to Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, and rightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The next thing Marías deserves is the Nobel Prize.”
— The Observer

“By one of the most original writers at work today, Your Face Tomorrow [is] as accomplished and sui generis as all his mature work [and the] most affecting narrative feat in Marías’s work to date.”
—Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review

Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems from the Book of Hours
Translated from the German by Babette Deutsch
NEW Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1853-5, US $12.95 / CAN $16.00

“If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.” 
—Stephen Spender, The New York Review Of Books

“Rilke remade the sturdy sonnet, recast the sonorous song. He quickened the German language itself.”                        
—Rika Lesser, The Nation

“One of the pillars of twentieth-century poetry.”
—Choice        

“Poets in English continue to line up for the inevitable failure of translating his [Rilke’s] short lyrics. The best translations I have seen are from Babette Deutsch.”   
—Clive James, Slate

Christmas Poems
A Holiday Gift Book
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1808-5, US $11.95 / CAN $15.00

Awake the voice! Awake the string!
Dark and dull night fly hence away,
And give the honor of this day
That sees December turned to May.
—William Herrick

Sparkling and elegant, Christmas Poems is a delightful selection of holiday poems by a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert, Longfellow, Dickinson, Rilke, Yeats, Paul Dunbar, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Kenneth Patchen, Thomas Merton, Wallace Stevens, Marie Ponsot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O’Hara, Denise Levertov, and Bernadette Mayer.

Beautifully designed, this New Directions gem rings with the deep sentiments of the season and just the right splash of holiday cheer—Christmas Poems comes with French flaps and is the perfect size for a stocking stuffer.

Dylan Thomas
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Woodcuts by Ellen Raskin
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1731-6, US $9.95 / CAN $12.50

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child’s-eye view and an adult’s fond memories of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.

“This is a story to stir one’s own emotions, with recollections perhaps untapped since childhood.”                                         
—Baltimore Evening Sun

“Try it for a break from violent robots.”
—The Providence Journal-Bulletin