Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple…

Winner of the Yomiuri Prize

Recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation.

Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Japan's Italo Calvino in this fantastical tale of a…

A new collection from the cult author of Terminal Boredom

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

Paul Nash was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. An official war artist in both the World Wars, his paintings include some of the most…

This collection of essays begins the process of reassessing Frye’s thought and writings in light of extraordinary, unpublished material contained in archives at the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto.

Chirri and Chirra frolic in the moonlight in the latest whimsical adventure of this much-beloved picture-book series from Japan.

Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid-if sometimes surreal-portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life. With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping…