Literature

...months on the road in Amdo in Tibetwith only traders, pilgrims, monks for company... ...taught in a refugee camp in Kashmir... ...sailed on the ...

This is a book of poetry, the third in the Curves series, emphasizing the beauty and the fire in love, lust, passion, via a collection of poems wor...

The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of poli...

Vale Ave Latin for Farewell, Hail is a hymn to Eros that unfolds as a gorgeous palimpsest of eternal recurrence and reincarnation, charting the c...

First you take a drink, F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into al...

A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric S...

Time of Grief is an anthology of poems divided into forty-nine days of mourning: forty-nine days of mourning: reflecting a period of grieving as ob...

With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on ones sleeve, the poems of Ana Lui´sa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. Spare and be...

This volume follows the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and the way they are narrated and represented since the First World War, wh...

Named a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post, and one of the best books of the year by Spectator and ...

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translat...

One of Poland's greatest living poetsnow in English at lastRyszard Krynicki was born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp, the son of Polish slave laborers...

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, ...

Under Milk Wood is the masterpiece radio play for voices Dylan Thomas finished just before his death in 1953. First commissioned by the BBC and bro...

At last, just in time for his 99th birthday, a powerful overview of one of America's most beloved poets: New Directions is proud to present a swift...

Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak, Memories Look at Me is Tomas Transtroemer''s lyrical autobio...

A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new Vagrancy in the P...

The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...