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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals
Hardback
Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
Voyage Around My Room
Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli, Richard Howard, Joseph de Maistre
Paperback
A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Anne Boyd Rioux
Hardback
This first full length biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson reaffirms her literary stature and evokes her dramatic life.
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
Philip Freeman
Hardback
An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems.
Words Without Music: A Memoir
Philip Glass
Paperback
Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his...