A novella and two short stories reveal Tanizaki at his best and most bizarre

The classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrations

A fearless collection by a trailblazing writer whose poems “represent the people, culture, and topography of the Caribbean in multidimensional, complex ways” (Tanya Shirley)

A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle

Over 50 original full-color artworks address newly translated writings of Robert Walser

A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery, by the National Book Award winner

Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer

A gorgeously illustrated copublication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times)

A brilliant, magisterial novel of family secrets simmering beneath the surface

Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau)

Winner of the Bollingen Prize
Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Harald Voetmann’s eye-opening English debut, Awake, is the first book of his erudite, grotesque, and absurdist trilogy about mankind’s inhuman will to conquer nature

This astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWI

WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork

An early novel from the masterful Drndić, Battle Songs is an intimate, ferocious account of her years spent as a refugee in Canada during the Yugoslav Wars

Russia’s foremost modernist master in a major new translation

A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations

An exquisite and intense journey through the labyrinths of Hanoi, Leningrad, and Paris—through dreams, memory, and loss

The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natural world

Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others

A powerful thriller about trauma and forgiveness, from the winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniature

At once a chase novel, black comedy, and softly keening death song, Count Luna starts off at a gallop and accelerates into warp speed

An overflowing, mesmeric masterpiece about greed from “one of the most remarkable authors on the Spanish scene” (The Guardian)

A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last word

This handsome gift edition is for dog lovers, poets, and poetry readers: in short, just about everyone

Three new books in a spectacular limited edition box carry the tradition of the long poem far into the 21st century with a “low-lit, slow-drag ebullience”

A moving hybrid work about Ellis Island and immigration by the marvelous Georges Perec

Another gorgeous copublication with the Christine Burgin Gallery, Envelope Poems is a compact, clothbound gift book, a full-color selection from The Gorgeous Nothings

A lost masterpiece of American literature about the creative evolution of a young Black woman in California and her intense relationship with an indie filmmaker

A musical celebration of the garden, from chaff to grass, and all of its lowly weeds, herbs, and creatures

A hauntingly beautiful novel from the “glowing light of modern Italian literature” (The New York Times Book Review)
Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award

The famously radical portrait of an artist’s life by one of the most celebrated poets of the last century

Never before in English, this legendary precursor to eco-fiction turns the coming insect apocalypse on its headA WSJ Best Science Fiction Book of 2021

A gorgeous facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox), H of H Playbook is a stunning re-creation of Euripides’s famous play, with illustrations by the author

At once kind and hilarious, this compilation of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s advice to writers is illustrated with her own marvelous collages

Now in paperback, Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season is “a bilious, profane, blood-spattered tempest of rage” (The Wall Street Journal), that casts “a powerful spell” (NPR)

Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute’s Translation Prize
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Public Library Best Books of 2020
Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020

The English-language debut of a master stylist: a compassionate but relentless novel about the long, dark harvest of Brazil’s totalitarian rule

An essential selection of Moyra Davey’s sly, surprising, and brilliant essays

A new edition of the definitive book on the depression-era immigrant experience in New York City.

An exciting new Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history.

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize
Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award

A masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann of Kafka’s best short fiction

A heartbreaking, unforgettable collection by the great Mexican poet Coral Bracho about her mother’s Alzheimer’s, exquisitely translated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Forrest Gander

Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor—now features an electric new Peter Mendelsund cover

Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and a whole world evaporates

About one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch–with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries–is lightning in a bottle

A cosmology of place written in the songs of whales and birds, folktales, city streets, and the glass-green sea

The reissue of the classic novel from the author of Lolita which brilliantly portrays one man’s ruin through love and betrayal.

Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor

Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues

A ravishing new translation of Iran’s trailblazing, feminist poet in an indispensable collection

Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse

An intoxicating sui generis novel by the greatest mesmerist of modern times (André Breton)

Among the most cherished love poems ever written, Catullus’s brilliant, everlasting verses are collected here in a marvelous mix of English translations

Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel “equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett” (The New York Times Book Review)

An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation

In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity

Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” (The New York Times Book Review) and “something of a miracle” (The New Yorker)

Finally, My Emily Dickinson, Susan Howe’s singular and unforgettable 1985 creative study, is available as a New Directions paperbook

Exciting new work from one of Japan’s most acclaimed living poets.

An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece—an American classic that will “leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face” (Houston Post)

Brevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fiction

A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life and literature by the renowned German writer Jenny Erpenbeck

The eccentric landmark novel by the legendary English poet Stevie Smith: “a rare bird, a Maltese falcon” (The New Yorker)

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.

A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this our most intoxicating Pearl yet!

On the Edge is a monumental fresco of a brutal contemporary Spain in free fall

From the great Croatian writer: a masterly work of literature—hilarious, unforgiving, and utterly reasonable

“On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau)

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City

The powerful debut of a rising young French star, Our Riches is a marvelous, surprising, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop

A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the PEN Translation Prize
Winner of the French American Foundation Prize

Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise

Winged ventriloquy—a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea’s most innovative contemporary writer

A dark and moving examination of one man’s derailed life, by the Norwegian master who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson)

Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, showcasing a powerful new Brazilian voice

A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature Prize

In the sixteenth century, on the island of Hven, the pioneering Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, is undertaking a momentous study of the night sky

The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh

Quintessential Anne Serre—this restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftness

At last in English, and sure to be a revelation to her fans, Clarice Lispector’s third book is unlike any of her other novels—it even has a happy ending

A rediscovered literary classic, The Bloater is a rollicking hothouse novel where love and repulsion are two paths to the same abyss

In the best translation ever, the complete Book of Disquiet is an incomparable masterpiece

Now in paperback, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things

A bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage

Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature Library Journal_ Best Books of 2018

The Emissary is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her “brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness”

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare

For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human

An unforgettable portrait of a major pioneering artist, by “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer” (Milan Kundera)

An enduring classic, The German Lesson is “shattering in its quiet authority” (The New York Times)

A wonderful novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a Tokyo couple’s life

The Halfway House, a novel by the great Guillermo Rosales, is a heart-breaking classic of modern Cuban literature.

The great German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin’s spirit infuses this gorgeous poem cycle that sings of the loves and devastations of our times

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling

A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic

In 2004, late in her legendary career, Ágota Kristóf wrote this slim dagger of a memoir about being a refugee after fleeing Hungary in 1956

Now back in print, this heartbreaking novel by Romain Gary has inspired two movies, including the Netflix feature The Life Ahead

The gripping English debut of the famous and hugely talented Brazilian writer Victor Heringer, who died tragically young

A philosophical tour de force melding astrophysics and grief by the American maestra of the prose poem

A macabre tale and hilarious tale of a Christmas Eve with the devil and a romantic twist.

A magnificent new collection of stories by “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse” (Susan Sontag)

An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

War Diary—copublished with ISOLARII—is a monumental, deeply penetrating document of life in Kyiv during the first forty-one days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

An ode to childhood and to “woolgathering” as the wellspring for a creative life—now in an expanded paperback edition

From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín)

Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann