Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a rev...

The Flaneur of Paris was published in the year of Apollinaire's death. More than a century later,...

Celebrity, seductress, covert diplomat. Virginia Verasis, Contessa di Castiglione, was the origin...

A haunting sci-fi fantasy about a world where women are hidden away, men cultivate living statues...

Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand s epic autobiography has ...

Since its inaugural appearance in 2010, Best European Fiction has become an essential resource fo...

Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, c...

'Roberto Bazlen published nothing in his lifetime. An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a tra...

'The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays. ...

The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary...

Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anar...

'The story of an animal, of a beech marten who discovers the world, its truths and its lies'

Thrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shak...

A raucous, macabre tale of failure from the filmmaker-turned-writer whose work has garnered culti...

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived t...

Notched is translated from Jacques Dupin's mesmerising Echancre (P.O.L, 1991). Jacques Dupin was ...

Yves Nedonsel was a poet of time and out of keeping with his time. Appeasements is the first sele...