New Directions: 473 books

Cover of Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
by Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse...
Cover of Candles to the Sun
by Dan Isaac, Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004

This early play about coal miners struggling to improve their lives helped establish a young Tennessee Williams as a powerful new voice in American theater. The first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, Candles to the Sun opened on Thursday, March 18, 1937 and received...
Cover of Tribute to Freud (Second Edition)
by Hilda Doolittle, Norman Holmes Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

A classic of American literature, now with a new introduction by iconic author and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. “My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,” H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal...
Cover of The Poems of Dylan Thomas
by Dylan Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017

The most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birth The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman...
Cover of The War Works Hard
by Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth Winslow
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005

Mikhail’s poetic vision transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries with liberating compassion. Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in The War Works Hard, a revolutionary...
Cover of An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006

An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the...
Cover of Monsieur Pain
by Roberto Bolaño
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012

Roberto Bolaño takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel. A Bolaño classic. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame...
Cover of The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978
by Bob Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017

"Mr. Kaufman has a genuine lyric talent, and his poetry is sensuous, exciting, and charged with vitality." —Publishers Weekly The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978 is San Francisco poet Bob Kaufman’s third collection and his first to be published since the late 1960s. One of the...
Cover of The Assistant
by Robert Walser
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007

The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a...
Cover of Seiobo There Below
by László Krasznahorkai
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The latest novel from “the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) Seiobo — a Japanese goddess — has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality....
Cover of Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Vol. 3)
by Javier Marías
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011

Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marías’s daring novel in three parts culminates triumphantly in this much-anticipated final volume. Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of...
Cover of An Elemental Thing
by Eliot Weinberger
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007

Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing,...
Cover of Selected Cronicas
by Clarice Lispector
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996

"Clarice Lispector was a born writer....she writes with sensuous verve, bringing her earliest passions into adult life intact, along with a child's undiminished capacity for wonder."—The New York Times Book Review "In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer...
Cover of Gap Gardening: Selected Poems
by Rosmarie Waldrop
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

An essential edition of a major avant-garde poet: “Waldrop compels us to seek out new superlatives” (Ben Lerner, Jacket) Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening “spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute...
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