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An incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam

A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time

A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux

One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring the horror of an allegedly "e;defensive"e; war. This volume is the first to present a complete English translation of Kraus's towering work, filling a major gap in the availability of Viennese literature from the era of the War to End All Wars. Bertolt Brecht hailed The Last Days as the masterpiece of Viennese modernism. In the apocalyptic drama Kraus constructs a textual collage, blending actual quotations from the Austrian army's call to arms, people's responses, political speeches, newspaper editorials, and a range of other sources. Seasoning the drama with comic invention and satirical verse, Kraus reveals how bungled diplomacy, greedy profiteers, Big Business complicity, gullible newsreaders, and, above all, the sloganizing of the press brought down the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the dramatization of sensationalized news reports, inurement to atrocities, and openness to war as remedy, today's readers will hear the echo of the fateful voices Kraus recorded as his homeland descended into self-destruction.

A powerful record of the first four months of the Russian-Ukrainian war, this book is at once the testimony of one man entering a new reality as he writes and the story of a society unified in its fight for the right to exist.

A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea

A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers