Other imprint: 323 books
On A Day Like This
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange Gardens
On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning...
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion
New Essays by Italian-American Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of Creative Nonfiction explore the meanings of Italian-American identity.
In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and emerging writers with family ties to Italy...
The Unlikely Settler
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seen by an outsider who craves to make sense of herself, her marriage, and the city she lives in
The Unlikely Settler is none other than a young Bengali journalist who moves to Jerusalem with her English-Jewish husband and two children. He speaks Arabic and...
The Fall
A father's memoir in 424 steps
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral Palsy.
As...
Does the Woman Exist?
From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's Feminine
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined.
This lucid presentation...
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets
Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
‘The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.’ - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay Festival have selected twelve contemporary international...
by Haroldo Conti
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
‘Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.’ Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick...
by Charlotte Greig
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Susannah’s official boyfriend, Jason, is the perfect foil for her student lifestyle. He is ten years older, an antiques dealer, and owns a stylish apartment that prevents her from having to live in the seedy digs on campus. This way, she can take her philosophy major very seriously and dabble in...
Infinite Summer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them
Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment...
by Owen Renik
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
A clear and readable how-to manual for results-oriented psychoanalysis.
By now, the term "practical psychoanalysis" has become an oxymoron. The way psychoanalytic treatment is generally conducted is extremely impractical and doesn't serve the needs of the vast majority of potential...
by Oleg Pavlov
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's own traumatic experience as a conscript in the last years of the Soviet Union, it follows the...
When the Night
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Manfred, a surly mountaineer recently abandoned by his wife, rents the upstairs apartment in his home in the Dolomites to Marina, a woman from the city, and her difficult young son. Deeply suspicious by nature, especially of women, Manfred spies obsessively on Marina, in whose shortcomings as a mother...
Dreadful
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school...
At the Existentialist Café
Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell.
Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over...