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The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series identifies works of cultural and artistic significance previously overlooked by translators and publishers, canonical works of…
Tourists have reimagined and reinvented the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Dickens’s London for more than 150 years. Take, for example, A Muppet Christmas…
Michael H. Kater, author of After the Nazis, contends with the legacy of controversial novelist Martin Walser, within the context of the emergence of…
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to…
Written by Serhiy Zhadan, widely considered to be one of the most important young writers in Ukraine, The Orphanage is a searing novel that…
We are delighted by the news that Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping, has been longlisted…
Vampires have fascinated humanity for centuries. In his new book The Vampire: A New History, author Nick Groom examines how vampires have captured our imaginations…
On this day in 1817, Jane Austen passed away in Winchester, England at the age of 41. In her short life, Austen composed some…
Beautifully translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen as part of the Margellos World Republic of Letters, this novel brings Xue’s imaginative vision to bear on the complicated…
The Margellos World Republic of Letters brings together canonical works of literature and fiction originally written in languages other than English, that have been…
Notes on Patrick Modiano and Suspended Sentences from the translator, Mark Polizzotti – 2014 At first blush, the qualities suggested by Patrick Modiano’s fictions…
One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost…
Translated into English for the first time, Norman Manea’s The Lair explores the human condition of exile, love, isolation and the disorientation of being submerged in…
Norman Manea is an acclaimed literary figure, whose works evoke comparisons to such giants as Kafka and Musil. Translated into English for the first…
The Black Envelope is a novel by Jewish Romanian novelist Norman Manea, and has recently been published in Yale’s pioneering Mergellos series of literature…