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A photo collection pulled from the world of artist-actor Harry Goazwith evocative and ironic subtitles.

An inspiring personal memoir of self-discovery from leading philanthropist and arts advocate Donna Wilhelm

A Narco Acid Western told in interlinked poems, using themes from the ongoing drug war taking place in a fictional U.S./Mexico border town.

An award-winning, magical contemporary novel about three teenage girls whose exploration of fantasy threatens everything they know of reality.

A classic Swedish-Finnish novel, haunting, profoundly personal, evocative novel, written in verse, dissecting one woman's fraught relationship with her alcoholic husband.

A light-hearted ode to the immense pleasure of reading and its resulting neuroses in a collection of cartoons created by beloved bookstore The Wild Detectives

Timely, Tarkovskian collection of stories by Sakharov Peace Prize-winning Ukrainian film director whose political imprisonment in Russia since 2014 is an international cause celebre

A literary meandering into the mythology of place and what a novel can be, inspired by the author's time spent at an artist residency in small-town Texas.

Fiction and lyric essay combine in Zahia Rahmani's poetic reflection on Islamic history and what it means to be Muslim.

Evoking Calvino & Yan Lianke, Oulipo member Berti paints a classic tragic love story with sumptuous detail in pre-revolutionary China

An ambitious epic novel showcases the brutal elements of human nature and mother nature alike in Iceland's most desolate region

Revenge of the Translator is acclaimed French writer Brice Matthieussent's brilliant, hilarious, rule-defying exploration of the creative acts of writing and translating, and the often complicated relationship between authors, their translators, and readers.

In a vivid fragmentary narrative, three narrators from different times and places find they're connected through history, memory, and language.

An award-winning, lyrically written, beautifully haunting saga of a Haitian family's fight against a curse spanning four generations.

A tour-de-force in automatic writing from South Korea's eccentric, award-winning contemporary master delves into subconscious worlds blending reality and imagination.

"e;Meruane's prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also from the ungraspable, and from pain."e;Roberto BolaoThis powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships.Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today, has won numerous prestigious international prizes, and lives in New York, where she teaches at NYU.

The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards. Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize contenders, Shishkin is a master prose writer in the breathtakingly beautiful style of the greatest Russian authors, known for complex, allusive novels about universal and emotional themes. Shishkin's stories read like modern versions of the eternal literature written by his greatest inspirations: Boris Pasternak, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Shishkin's short fiction is the perfect introduction to his breathtaking oeuvre, his stories touch on the same big themes as his novels, spanning discussions of love and loss, death and eternal life, emigration and exile. Calligraphy Lesson spans Shishkin's entire writing career, including his first published story, the 1993 Debut Prizewinning "e;Calligraphy Lesson,"e; and his most recent story "e;Nabokov's Inkblot,"e; which was written for a dramatic adaptation performed in Zurich in 2013. Mikhail Shishkin (b. 1961 in Moscow) is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Russian literature. A former interpreter for refugees in Switzerland, Shishkin divides his time between Moscow, Switzerland, and Germany.

"e;Mexico's greatest woman writer."e;Roberto Bolao"e;A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"e;Miami HeraldAn imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest novel. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Texas is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland. Boullosa views border history through distinctly Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal of each of her wildly diverse charactersMexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dancehall girlsmakes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbing.Shedding important historical light on current battles over the MexicanAmerican frontier while telling a gripping story with Boullosa's singular prose and formal innovation, Texas marks the welcome return of a major writer who has previously captivated American audiences and is poised to do so again.Carmen Boullosa (b. 1954) is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. Author of seventeen novels, her books have been translated into numerous world languages. Recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, Boullosa is currently Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York.Samantha Schnee is founding editor and chairman of the board of Words Without Borders. She has also been a senior editor with Zoetrope, and her translations have appeared in the Guardian, Granta, and the New York Times.

A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.