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  • Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic

    Andrew Dalby

    Paperback

    "Dalby's book and his bibliography provide a superb introduction to the debate surrounding these poems."—Lisa Montanarelli, San Francisco Chronicle

  • The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin

    James Laughlin, Barbara Epler, Daniel Javitch

    Paperback

    Lavishly illustrated, The Way It Wasn't offers an intimate firsthand encounter with 20th-century Modernism, from the extraordinary man who defined it for America.

  • Labyrinths

    Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, William Gibson, André Maurois

    Paperback

    The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.

  • Kinshu: Autumn Brocade

    Teru Miyamoto, Roger K. Thomas

    Paperback

    As delicate as the shimmering wings of a dragonfly, Kinshu—an epistolary novel by one of Japan's most popular literary authors—is a masterpiece of simplicity and beauty.

  • Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World

    Kathleen Ragan, Jack Zipes

    Paperback

    “Kathleen Ragan is a contemporary Scheherazade.”—Jack Zipes