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Microscripts
$34.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings... Buy or find out more→
A Splendid Conspiracy
$21.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Three friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and joie de vivre. Buy or find out more→
Time of Useful Consciousness
$27.95 – Hardback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink. Buy or find out more→
The Poems of Octavio Paz
$55.95 – Hardback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Pazs poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated... Buy or find out more→
Nox
$42.95 – Hardback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Anne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years — a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out “book in a box.” Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne... Buy or find out more→
Lightning Rods
$20.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
From the acclaimed author of The Last Samurai, Lightning Rods is the most well-executed literary sex comedy of our time. Buy or find out more→
The Cardboard House
$23.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes -- scenes, moods, dreams, and... Buy or find out more→
Written Lives
$20.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marias is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne.... Buy or find out more→
The Hour of the Star
$18.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
New translation; previous translation published in 1992. Buy or find out more→
Near to the Wild Heart
$23.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Clarice Lispector's first novel, Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do coracao selvagem), was published in 1944, when ts author was only nineteen years old. Buy or find out more→
An Elemental Thing
$24.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
In a new cycle of linked nonfiction prose-pieces, Eliot Weinberger creates another "vortex for the entire universe." ("Boston Review") "If you dream of a jaguar, people are coming.] If the jaguar bites you, they are not... Buy or find out more→