The Red Thread

by Unknown

  norman mailer

  Introduction by Frank Rich

  Inverted World

  christopher priest

  Afterword by John Clute

  My Fantoms

  théophile gautier

  Selected, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Richard Holmes

  Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage*

  tim robinson

  Introduction by Robert Macfarlane

  In Hazard

  richard hughes

  Introduction by John Crowley

  Victorine

  maude hutchins

  Introduction by Terry Castle

  Grief Lessons: Four Plays*

  euripides

  Translated from the Ancient Greek and with an introduction by Anne Carson

  Rock Crystal

  adalbert stifter

  Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore

  Introduction by W.H. Auden

  The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society

  lionel trilling

  Introduction by Louis Menand

  The Queue

  vladimir sorokin

  Translated from the Russian and with a preface by Sally Laird

  Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps

  emmett grogan

  Introduction by Peter Coyote

  Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign

  philippe-paul de ségur

  Translated from the French by J. David Townsend

  Introduction by Mark Danner

  Don’t Look Now: Stories*

  daphne du maurier

  Selected and with an introduction by Patrick McGrath

  Pinocchio*

  carlo collodi

  Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock

  Introduction by Umberto Eco

  Afterword by Rebecca West

  The Chrysalids

  john wyndham

  Introduction by Christopher Priest

  The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography

  gregor von rezzori

  Translated from the German by H.F. Broch de Rothermann

  Introduction by John Banville

  2009

  The Rider on the White Horse and Selected Stories

  theodor storm

  Translated from the German and with a foreword by James Wright

  School for Love

  olivia manning

  Introduction by Jane Smiley

  Chaos and Night

  henry de montherlant

  Translated from the French by Terence Kilmartin

  Introduction by Gary Indiana

  A Meaningful Life

  l.j. davis

  Introduction by Jonathan Lethem

  Short Letter, Long Farewell

  peter handke

  Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

  Introduction by Greil Marcus

  Slow Homecoming

  peter handke

  Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

  Introduction by Benjamin Kunkel

  Season of Migration to the North

  tayeb salih

  Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies

  Introduction by Laila Lalami

  The Foundation Pit*

  andrey platonov

  Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, and Olga Meerson

  With notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson

  The Complete Fiction

  francis wyndham

  Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst

  The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

  masanobu fukuoka

  Translated from the Japanese by Larry Korn, Chris Pearce, and Tsune Kurosawa

  Edited by Larry Korn

  Preface by Wendell Berry

  Introduction by Frances Moore Lappé

  Summer Will Show

  sylvia townsend warner

  Introduction by Claire Harman

  The Old Man and Me

  elaine dundy

  With an introduction by the author

  Niki: The Story of a Dog

  tibor déry

  Translated from the Hungarian by Edward Hyams

  Introduction by George Szirtes

  Stones of Aran: Labyrinth*

  tim robinson

  Introduction by John Elder

  Hard Rain Falling

  don carpenter

  Introduction by George Pelecanos

  The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories*

  mavis gallant

  Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri

  Memories of the Future*

  sigizmund krzhizhanovsky

  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov

  Poem Strip including an Explanation of the Afterlife*

  dino buzzati

  Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss

  No Tomorrow and Point de Lendemain

  vivant denon

  Translated from the French by Lydia Davis

  Introduction by Peter Brooks

  The Way of the World*

  nicolas bouvier

  Translated from the French by Robyn Marsack

  Introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor

  Drawings by Thierry Vernet

  The Journal, 1837–1861*

  henry david thoreau

  Edited by Damion Searls

  Preface by John R. Stilgoe

  Alien Hearts*

  guy de maupassant

  Translated from the French and with a preface by Richard Howard

  Everything Flows*

  vasily grossman

  Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Anna Aslanyan

  Introduction by Robert Chandler

  The True Deceiver*

  tove jansson

  Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal

  Introduction by Ali Smith

  2010

  Soul of Wood

  jakov lind

  Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

  Introduction by Michael Krüger

  Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy

  olivia manning

  Introduction by Rachel Cusk

  Wish Her Safe at Home*

  stephen benatar

  Introduction by John Carey

  Original Letters from India

  eliza fay

  Annotated by E.M. Forster

  Introduction by Simon Winchester

  Skylark

  dezsŐ kosztolányi

  Translated from the Hungarian by Richard Aczel

  Introduction by Péter Esterházy

  The Wedding of Zein

  tayeb salih

  Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies

  Introduction by Hisham Matar

  Illustrated by Ibrahim Salahi

  Poets in a Landscape

  gilbert highet

  Preface by Michael C.J. Putnam

  Nightmare Alley

  william lindsay gresham

  Introduction by Nick Tosches

  The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick*

  elizabeth hardwick

  Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney

  The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

  brian moore

  Afterword by Mary Gordon

  The Murderess

  alexandros

  papadiamantis

  Translated from the Greek by Peter Levi

  Clandestine in Chile

  gabriel garcía márquez

  Translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz

  Preface by Francisco Goldman

  The Long Ships

  frans g. bengtsson

  Translated from the Swedish by Michael Meyer

  Introduction by Michael Chabon

  The Jokers*

  albert cossery

  Translated from the Frenc
h by Anna Moschovakis

  Introduction by James Buchan

  Pedigree†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Robert Baldick

  Introduction by Luc Sante

  The Mountain Lion

  jean stafford

  Afterword by Kathryn Davis

  Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking

  jessica mitford

  Preface by Jane Smile

  The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays*

  vasily grossman

  Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Olga Mukovnikova

  Afterword by Fyodor Guber

  The World as I Found It

  bruce duffy

  Introduction by David Leavitt

  The Outward Room

  millen brand

  Afterword by Peter Cameron

  Tun-huang

  yasushi inoue

  Translated from the Japanese by Jean Oda Moy

  Preface by Damion Searls

  After Claude

  iris owens

  Introduction by Emily Prager

  Journey Into the Past*

  stefan zweig

  Translated from the German and with an afterword by Anthea Bell

  Introduction by André Aciman

  Nature Stories*

  jules renard

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée

  Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard

  2011

  Conquered City

  victor serge

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman

  The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

  patrick leigh fermor

  Introduction by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

  Photographs by A. Costa

  The Doll

  bolesław prus

  Translated from the Polish by David Welsh

  Revised by Dariusz Tołczyk and Anna Zaranko

  Introduction by Stanisław Barańczak

  Irretrievable

  theodor fontane

  Translated from the German and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée

  Introduction by Phillip Lopate

  A Posthumous Confession

  marcellus emants

  Translated from the Dutch and with an introduction by J.M. Coetzee

  Fair Play

  tove jansson

  Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal

  Introduction by Ali Smith

  Ice Trilogy*

  vladimir sorokin

  Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell

  Songs of Kabir*

  kabir

  Translated from the Hindi and with an introduction by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

  Preface by Wendy Doniger

  The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

  milton rokeach

  Introduction by Rick Moody

  Fatale*

  jean-patrick manchette

  Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

  Afterword by Jean Echenoz

  The Pumpkin Eater

  penelope mortimer

  Introduction by Daphne Merkin

  Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

  bohumil hrabal

  Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim

  Introduction by Adam Thirlwell

  Love’s Work

  gillian rose

  Introduction by Michael Wood

  Reveille in Washington: 1860–1865

  margaret leech

  Introduction by James M. McPherson

  The Judges of the Secret Court

  david stacton

  Introduction by John Crowley

  When the World Spoke French*

  marc fumaroli

  Translated from the French and with a preface by Richard Howard

  The Mangan Inheritance

  brian moore

  Introduction by Christopher Ricks

  Hav*

  jan morris

  Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin

  The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Némirovsky by Her Daughter*

  élisabeth gille

  Translated from the French by Marina Harss

  Afterword by René de Ceccatty

  Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell

  charles simic

  Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain*

  dwight macdonald

  Introduction by Louis Menand

  Edited by John Summers

  Act of Passion†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Louise Varèse

  Introduction by Roger Ebert

  Red Shift

  alan garner

  With a new introduction by the author

  Alice James

  jean strouse

  Preface by Colm Tóibín

  The Adventures of Sindbad

  gyula krúdy

  Translated from the Hungarian and with an introduction by George Szirtes

  The Letter Killers Club*

  sigizmund krzhizhanovsky

  Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov

  Introduction by Caryl Emerson

  Proud Beggars

  albert cossery

  Translated from the French by Thomas W. Cushing with revisions by Alyson Waters

  Introduction by Alyson Waters

  2012

  An Ermine in Czernopol*

  gregor von rezzori

  Translated from the German by Philip Boehm

  Introduction by Daniel Kehlmann

  Walkabout

  james vance marshall

  Introduction by Lee Siegel

  Berlin Stories*

  robert walser

  Translated from the German and with an introduction by Susan Bernofsky

  Edited by Jochen Greven

  A Game of Hide and Seek

  elizabeth taylor

  Introduction by Caleb Crain

  Angel

  elizabeth taylor

  Introduction by Hilary Mantel

  Amsterdam Stories*

  nescio

  Selected and translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls

  Introduction by Joseph O’Neill

  Memoirs of a Revolutionary

  victor serge

  Translated from the French by Peter Sedgwick with George Paizis

  Foreword by Adam Hochschild

  Glossary and notes by Richard Greeman

  Store of the Worlds*

  robert sheckley

  Edited and with an introduction by Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem

  The Sun King

  nancy mitford

  Introduction by Philip Mansel

  Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D.*

  stefan zweig

  Translated from the German by Anthea Bell

  Introduction by George Prochnik

  Ride a Cockhorse

  raymond kennedy

  Introduction by Katherine A. Powers

  The Expendable Man

  dorothy b. hughes

  Afterword by Walter Mosley

  Dead Souls*

  nikolai gogol

  Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Donald Rayfield

  Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall*

  sir thomas browne

  Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff

  Tyrant Banderas*

  ramÓn del valle-inclÁn

  Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush

  Introduction by Alberto Manguel

  Young Man with a Horn

  dorothy baker

  Afterword by Gary Giddins

  Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

  paul goodman

  Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake

  With an essa
y by Susan Sontag

  Lucky Jim

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by Keith Gessen

  The Old Devils

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by John Banville

  The Other

  thomas tryon

  Introduction by Dan Chaon

  Voltaire in Love

  nancy mitford

  Introduction by Adam Gopnik

  The Stammering Century

  gilbert seldes

  Introduction by Greil Marcus

  Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist

  erich kästner

  Translated from the German by Cyrus Brooks

  Introduction by Rodney Livingstone

  Happy Moscow*

  andrey platonov

  Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and others

  The Gate*

  natsume sōseki

  Translated from the Japanese by William F. Sibley

  Introduction by Pico Iyer

  Basti*

  intizar husain

  Translated from the Urdu by Frances W. Pritchett

  Introduction by Asif Farrukhi

  2013

  Testing the Current

  william mcpherson

  Afterword by D.T. Max

  Diary of a Man in Despair

  friedrich reck

  Translated from the German by Paul Rubens

  Afterword by Richard J. Evans

  An Armenian Sketchbook*

  vasily grossman

  Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler

  Introduction and notes by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan

  Speedboat

  renata adler

  Afterword by Guy Trebay

  Pitch Dark

  renata adler

  Afterword by Muriel Spark

  The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680–1715

  paul hazard

  Translated from the French by J. Lewis May

  Introduction by Anthony Grafton

  The Green Man

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by Michael Dirda

  The Alteration

  kingsley amis

  Introduction by William Gibson

  Transit*

  anna seghers

  Translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo

  Introduction by Peter Conrad

  Afterword by Heinrich Böll

  We Have Only This Life to Live*

  jean-paul sartre

  Edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian can den Hoven

  Introduction by Ronald Aronson

  Turtle Diary

  russell hoban

  Introduction by Ed Park

  The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories

  saki

  Illustrated by Edward Gorey

  Frederick the Great

  nancy mitford

  Introduction by Liesl Schillinger

  In Love

  alfred hayes

  Introduction by Frederic Raphael

  My Face for the World to See

  alfred hayes

  Introduction by David Thomson

  The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays*

  simon leys

  With a foreword by the author

  The Bridge of Beyond

  simone schwarz-bart

  Translated from the French by Barbara Bray

  Introduction by Jamaica Kincaid