New Directions Pearl Series
The Hall Of The Singing Caryatids
$12.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other “lucky” girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively for Russia’s upper-crust elite. They are to b... Buy or find out more →
On Booze
$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions Paperback
"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 almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, ... Buy or find out more →
The Leviathan
$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the most respected coral merchant of the region. Nissen has never been outside of his town, deep in the Russian interior, and fantasizes that a Leviathan... Buy or find out more →
Urn Burial
$13.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in... Buy or find out more →
Patriotism
$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patr... Buy or find out more →
Bad Nature, Or With Elvis In Acapulco
$15.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
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 th... Buy or find out more →
The Literary Conference
$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient... Buy or find out more →
Everything And Nothing
$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions Paperback
A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Duende
$13.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
The notion of “duende” became a cornerstone of Federico García Lorca’s poetics over the course of his career. In his lecture “Play and Theory of the Duende,” he says, “there are no maps nor disciplines to help us find th... Buy or find out more →