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The Edge of Reason
A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity...
How to Enjoy Art
A Guide for Everyone
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate art, instead How to Enjoy Art
Family Record
An enthralling reflection on the ways that family history influences identity, from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a...
Invisible Ink
A Novel
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a “mesmerizing, enigmatic novel” (Publishers Weekly) “A mesmerizing, enigmatic novel. . . . A story about growing old and the gaps and omissions...
Look at the Lights, My Love
A meditation on the big-box superstore, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux For half a century, French writer Annie Ernaux has restlessly explored stories and subjects often considered unworthy of artistic...
Suspended Sentences
Three Novellas
“Elegant. Unpretentious. Approachable. . . . He is, all in all, quite an endearing Nobelist.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post “Modiano is a pure original.”—Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian...
What Art Is
A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex...
Paris Nocturne
A Novel
An accident, a vanishing, a memory gap, a strange dream: a classic noir work of fiction by Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of...
After the Circus
A Novel
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation “Modiano at his best.”—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal (starred review) ...
Sundays in August
A Novel
From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterly and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers,...