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The Corpse Washer

Sinan Antoon; Translated from the Arabic by the author

Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation’s horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family...

July 29, 2014, Paper, $13.00

American Contagions

Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19

John Fabian Witt

A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating." (Jennifer...

November 23, 2021, Paper, $13.00

Severina

Rodrigo Rey Rosa; Translated by Chris Andrews

A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bolaño called “the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent . . . the most luminous of all”   “Severina is impeccably written. ....

February 25, 2014, PB-with Flaps, $13.00

The African Shore

Rodrigo Rey Rosa; Translated by Jeffrey Gray

A riveting and highly praised novel by Guatemala’s leading writer of fiction, now in English for the first time    “Rodrigo Rey Rosa is the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent, the one that knows...

October 22, 2013, PB-with Flaps, $13.00

Interpreting Lacan

Edited by Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan

To assimilate a writer as allusive as Lacan is to enter into an entire culture.  However firm their grounding in Freud, readers of Lacan must learn to rethink psychoanalysis with a speculative breadth sometimes...

March 18, 1987, Cloth, $12.95

Jane Austen

A Brief Life

Fiona Stafford

An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists"I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one needs...

July 25, 2017, PB-with Flaps, $12.95

Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

Umberto Eco; Translated by Hugh Bredin

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the...

February 8, 2002, Paper, $12.95

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Eugene O'Neill; With an Introduction by Stephen A. Black

A new, affordable paperback edition of one O’Neill’s late masterpieces Eugene O’Neill’s last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Day’s Journey Into...

August 28, 2006, Paper, $12.95

The Phonology and Morphology of Ulu Muar Malay

Rufus S. Hendon

July 27, 2010, Paper, $12.00

The Prehistory of Fishtrap, Kentucky

R.C. Dunnell

July 27, 2010, Paper, $12.00

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