A collection of short fiction that is written by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these stories, Davis reveals…

From one of the true originals of contemporary American short fiction ( San Francisco Chronicle ) comes this crystalline collection of investigations into the ways in which human being perceive…

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis

In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has…

Examining changing role models for masculine identity–from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine–this book suggests that men need new role models and…

A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis

A New Directions Poetry Pamphlet by one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, with an introduction by Lydia Davis

Now available to specialists and general readers alike for the first time, her correspondence offers an extensive view of the Civil War and Reconstruction era rarely captured in a single…