Break of Day

Author	Saeed Jones
ISBN	1501132733

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...

Author	Jokha Alharthi
ISBN	1948226944

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated...

Author	Susan Sontag
ISBN	0141012374

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by...

Author	Guy de Maupassant
ISBN	1590172604

Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death aged just forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome,...

Author	John Ashbery
ISBN	0912946385

From one of our most important modern poets comes an essential early collection, including the famous long poems "The Skaters" and "Clepsydra"When "Rivers and Mountains" was published in 1966, American poetry was in a state of radical redefinition, with John Ashbery recognized as one of the leading...

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521603

What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics...