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By: Dino Buzzati
ISBN: 9781681378008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Tatyana Tolstaya
ISBN: 9781590171967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2007
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In Tolstaya's vaudevillian-dystopian novel, set 200 years after an apocalyptic disaster destroys Russia, a lowly scribe is elevated to a life of privilege and becomes the bibliophile from hell.
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By: Dror Burstein
ISBN: 9781681370224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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When The Sound of One Hand Clapping came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Certainly the nameless Zen renegade who smuggled the book out to the world was bent on exposing the monasteries of his day as factories for making monks rather than centers of No-Mind. A century later, things look very different. This book deals with this topic.
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By: Gilbert Seldes
ISBN: 9781590175804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th December 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The Stammering Century is a model of exposition and a straight-out delight to read.
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By: Leonora Carrington
ISBN: 9781681378947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: William Gardner Smith
ISBN: 9781681375168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2021
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: J.F. Powers
ISBN: 9780940322226
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Powers wrote about many things: baseball and jazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression, and the flight to the suburbs. His greatest subject, however-and one that was uniquely his-was the life of priests in Chicago and the Midwest.
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By: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9781681370583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work"--
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By: Translated By Paul Schmid
ISBN: 9781590171912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2007
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Eight world-class twentieth-century Russian poets brought to new life in Schmidt's scintillating translations.
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By: Heimito von Doderer
ISBN: 9781681375274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2021
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Translation of: Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre.
(Paperback)
By: Antonio di Benedetto
ISBN: 9781681378862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th January 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Ian Hideo Levy
ISBN: 9781681378909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man'yoshu is considered, along with Tale of Genji, to be one of the two most important works in classical Japanese literature"--
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By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9780940322745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2001
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art."
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By: Tess Slesinger
ISBN: 9781590170144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life.
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By: Aleksander Tisma
ISBN: 9781590177266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 8th January 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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A work of stark poetry and illimitable sadness, The Use of Man is one of the great books of the 20th century.
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By: David Shields
ISBN: 9781681376424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th April 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Jonathan Schell
ISBN: 9781681378497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Since it's appearance in The New Yorker, on July 15, 1967, Jonathan Schell's THE VILLAGE OF BEN SUC has come to be regarded as a classic of American reporting. It is a rigorously factual account of the destruction by the United States Army, of a South Vietnamese village and of what happened to the 3500 in habitants"--
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By: Andrew Davis
ISBN: 9781590179109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets in any language, and his work, which sounds the depths of the Russian language, has presented a fertile and constant challenge to translators. This book covers two years of the poet's life, from the spring of 1935, when, in a state of physical and mental collapse.
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By: Georg Christoph Lichtenbe
ISBN: 9780940322509
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2000
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.
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By: Julien Baer
ISBN: 9781681378961
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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When environmentally conscious Nina decides to repurpose an old watering can, she discovers it has magical growing and shrinking properties.
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By: J. H. Prynne
ISBN: 9781590179796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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J H Prynne is Britain's major late Modernist poet. His work, as it has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction, at once austere and playful. This book constitutes a fresh introduction to the achievement and vision of a legendary contemporary master.
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By: Julio Ramon Ribeyro
ISBN: 9781681373232
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Helen Keller
ISBN: 9781590170670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 15th December 2003
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, with the provocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language.
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By: Ferit Edg
ISBN: 9781681376769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2023
Publisher: New York Review Books
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