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It Must Be a Misunderstanding
Coral Bracho • 2022
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 It Must Be a Misunderstanding is the acclaimed Mexican poet Coral Bracho’s most personal and emotive collection to date, dedicated to her mother who died of complications from Alzheimer’s. Remarkably, Bracho, author and daughter, seems to disappear into her own empathic observations as her mother comes clear to us not as a tragic figure, but as a fiery and independent personality. The chemistry between them is vivid, poignant, and unforgettable. As the translator Forrest Gander explains in his introduction, the book’s force “builds as the poems cycle through their sequences”— from early to late Alzheimer’s—“with non-judgmental affection and compassionate watchfulness.”
Tender is the Night
F Scott Fitzgerald • 2022
The best writing to come from the pen of Fitzgerald.<br/>"I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." -F. Scott Fitzgerald.<br/>"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." -F. Scott Fitzgerald.<br/>"One of the most wonderful writers of the twentieth century." - Financial Times.<br/><br/>Tender is the Night displays Fitzgerald's astonishing descriptive powers and being fraught with emotion it holds the reader in intense psychological tension. It delves into similar themes as his other novels, is similarly autobiographical, but is set in the south of France. Fitzgerald considered Tender is the Night to be his best work.<br/><br/>This edition, set in a large 11 point font, will be a pleasure to read.<br/><br/>Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century American novelists. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. His works feature towards the top of any list of the best novels. Writer Richard Ford calls Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner "The Three Kings who set the measure for every writer since."
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre • 1969
Letters to Vera
Vladimir Nabokov • 2014
The letters of the great writer to his wife--in their first publication--tell a long and beguiling love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Vera Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their meeting in 1923, Vladimir's letters to Vera form a narrative arc that tells a half-century long love story, one that is playful, romantic, pithy, and memorable. At the same time, the letters tell us much about the man and the writer. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything--animals, people, speech, the landscapes he encountered--and learn of the poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays, and translations on which he worked ceaselessly. This delicious volume contains 21 photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters themselves and the puzzles and doodles Vladimir often sent to Vera.Edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd."
Girls Against God: A Novel
Jenny Hval • 2020
A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.<br/><br/>Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.<br/><br/>Jenny Hval's latest novel is a radical fusion of queer feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art.<br/><br/>"Strange and lyrical. Hval’s writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence." —Publishers Weekly<br/><br/>"The themes of alienation, queerness, and the unsettling nature of desire align Hval with modern mainstays like Chris Kraus, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Maggie Nelson." —Pitchfork
I Was Born There I Was Born Here
Murid Barghuthi,Mourid Barghouti • 2012
The sequel to the classic memoir i saw ramallah, i was born there, i was born here takes up the story in 1998 when barghouti returned to the occupied territories to introduce his cairo-born son, tamim, to his palestinian family. Ranging freely back and forth in time between the 1990s and the present day, barghouti weaves into his account of exile poignant evocations of palestinian history and daily life - the pleasure of coffee arriving at just the right moment, the challenge of a car journey through the occupied territories, the meaning of home and the importance of being able to say, standing in a small village in palestine, 'i was born here', rather than saying from exile, 'i was born there'. Full of life and humour in the face of death, i was born there, i was born here is destined, like its predecessor, to become a classic.
I Saw Ramallah
Mourid Barghouti • 2003
WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE<br/><br/>A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament.<br/><br/>Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home for the first time since the Israeli occupation, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. Sifting through memories of the old Palestine as they come up against what he now encounters in this mere “idea of Palestine,” he discovers what it means to be deprived not only of a homeland but of “the habitual place and status of a person.” A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today’s Middle East.
A Book of Days
Patti Smith • 2022
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith’s singular aesthetic—inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.<br/><br/>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Variety, Pitchfork, PopSugar<br/><br/>In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith’s world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she’s reading, the graves of beloved heroes—William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith’s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother’s keychain, and a husband’s Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith’s archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.<br/><br/>With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful—and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process—A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist’s life.
Bad Behaviour
Mary Gaitskill • 2019
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)
Eve Babitz • 2016
Forbidden Colours (Penguin Modern Classics)
Yukio Mishima • 2008
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance
Stella Abasa Dadzie • 2020
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind • 2001
Maurice
E M Forster • 2025
The Fire Next Time (Modern Library)
James Baldwin • 2021
If Beale Street Could Talk.
James Baldwin • 1994
Book by Baldwin, James
Munkey Diaries
Jane Birkin • 2021
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
The Constant Nymph
Margaret Kennedy • 1960
Eroticism
Georges Bataille • 1999
Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
Kate Flannery • 2023
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins • 2021
