Introduction by Andrea Barrett
2003
Prisoner of Love
jean genet
Translated from the French by Barbara Bray
Introduction by Ahdaf Soueif
We Always Treat Women Too Well
raymond queneau
Translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Introduction by John Updike
Witch Grass
raymond queneau
Translated from the French and with an introduction by Barbara Wright
The Vet’s Daughter
barbara comyns
Foreword by Kathryn Davis
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship
gershom scholem
Translated from the German by Harry Zohn
Introduction by Lee Siegel
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History†
edmund wilson
Foreword by Louis Menand
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse
Selected and arranged by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee
Introduction by Billy Collins
Shelley: The Pursuit
richard holmes
With a new introduction by the author
Fancies and Goodnights
john collier
Introduction by Ray Bradbury
In Parenthesis
david jones
Foreword by W. S. Merwin
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
david kidd
Preface by John Lanchester
René Leys
victor segalen
Translated from the French by J. A. Underwood
Preface by Ian Buruma
Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature’s Hidden Classics
Edited by Edwin Frank
Dirty Snow†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Marc Romano and Louise Varèse
Afterword by William T. Vollmann
The Invention of Morel
adolfo bioy casares
Translated from the Spanish by Ruth L. C. Simms
Introduction by Suzanne Jill Levine
Prologue by Jorge Luis Borges
Illustrated by Norah Borges de Torre
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
geoffrey wolff
With an afterword by the author
The Day of the Owl
leonardo sciascia
Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver
Introduction by George Scialabba
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Marc Romano and Lawrence G. Blochman
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Monsieur Proust
céleste albaret
As told to Georges Belmont
Translated from the French by Barbara Bray
Foreword by André Aciman
Equal Danger
leonardo sciascia
Translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke
Introduction by Carlin Romano
The Towers of Trebizond
rose macaulay
Introduction by Jan Morris
Varieties of Exile: Stories*
mavis gallant
Selected and with an introduction by Russell Banks
The Tenants of Moonbloom
edward lewis wallant
Introduction by Dave Eggers
My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual
aleksander wat
Foreword by Czesław Miłosz
Edited and translated from the Polish by Richard Lourie
2004
The World I Live In
helen keller
Edited and with an introduction by Roger Shattuck
The Ivory Tower
henry james
Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst
With an essay by Ezra Pound
American Humor: A Study of the National Character
constance rourke
Introduction by Greil Marcus
The Gallery
john horne burns
Introduction by Paul Fussell
Paris and Elsewhere: Selected Writings
richard cobb
Selected and with an introduction by David Gilmour
Preface by Julian Barnes
Apartment in Athens
glenway wescott
Introduction by David Leavitt
The Moro Affair and The Mystery of Majorana
leonardo sciascia
Translated from the Italian by Sacha Rabinovitch
Introduction by Peter Robb
Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn: The Collected Stories of Harvey Swados
harvey swados
Preface by Grace Paley
Introduction by Robin Swados
Envy
yuri olesha
Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
Introduction by Ken Kalfus
Illustrations by Natan Altman
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
murray kempton
Introduction by David Remnick
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
victor serge
Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
Introduction by Susan Sontag
W. H. Auden’s Book of Light Verse
Chosen by W. H. Auden
Preface by Edward Mendelson
The Siege of Krishnapur
j. g. farrell
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
The Diary of a Rapist†
evan s. connell
Introduction by A. M. Homes
Monsieur Monde Vanishes†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Jean Stewart
Introduction by Larry McMurtry
Moravagine
blaise cendrars
Translated from the French by Alan Brown
Introduction by Paul La Farge
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
p. v. glob
Translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Introduction by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
osip mandelstam
Translated from the Russian by Clarence Brown and by W. S. Merwin
Introduction by Clarence Brown
Asleep in the Sun
adolfo bioy casares
Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine
Introduction by James Sallis
The Furies
janet hobhouse
Introduction by Daphne Merkin
Memoirs of Hecate County
edmund wilson
Introduction by Louis Menand
Indian Summer
william dean howells
Introduction by Wendy Lesser
Hons and Rebels
jessica mitford
Introduction by Christopher Hitchens
Cassandra at the Wedding
dorothy baker
Afterword by Deborah Eisenberg
The Year of the French
thomas flanagan
Introduction by Seamus Deane
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri*
dante alighieri
Translated from the Classical Italian by Ciaran Carson
The Late Mattia Pascal
luigi pirandello
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Introduction by Charles Simic
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait
francis steegmuller
Introduction by Victor Brombert
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities
anonymous
Translated from the Spanish by W. S. Merwin
Introduction by Juan Goytisolo
The Peregrine
j.a. baker
Introduction by Robert Macfarlane
2005
The Child*
jules vallès
Translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée
The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings*
hugo von hofmannsthal
Selected and translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg Introduction by John Banville
Blood on the Forge
william attaway
Introduction by Darryl Pinckney
The Singapore Grip
j.g. farrell
Introduction by Derek Mahon
Count D’Orgel’s Ball
raymond radiguet
Translated from the French by Annapaola Cancogni
Foreword by Jean Cocteau
War and the Iliad*
SIMONE WEIL and RACHEL BESPALOFF
Translated from the French by Mary McCarthy
With an essay by Hermann Broch
Introduction by Christopher Benfey
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
angus wilson
Introduction by Jane Smiley
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
harold cruse
Introduction by Stanley Crouch
Memed, My Hawk
yashar kemal
Translated from the Turkish by Edouard Roditi
With a new introduction by the author
The Thirty Years War
c.v. wedgwood
Foreword by Anthony Grafton
Kaputt
curzio malaparte
Translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno
Afterword by Dan Hofstadter
They Burn the Thistles
yashar kemal
Translated from the Turkish by Margaret E. Platon
Introduction by Bill McKibben
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
joseph joubert
Translated from the French and with an introduction by Paul Auster
Tropic Moon*†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Marc Romano
Introduction by Norman Rush
The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II*
gert ledig
Translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
Shakespeare
mark van doren
Foreword by David Lehman
A Time of Gifts, On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
patrick leigh fermor
Introduction by Jan Morris
Between the Woods and the Water, On Foot to Constantinople: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
patrick leigh fermor
Introduction by Jan Morris
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By*†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Marc Romano and D. Thin
Introduction by Luc Sante
Jejuri*
arun kolatkar
Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri
Mouchette
georges bernanos
Translated from the French by J.C. Whitehouse
Introduction by Fanny Howe
Warlock
oakley hall
Introduction by Robert Stone
The New York Stories of Henry James*
henry james
Selected and with an introduction by Colm Tóibín
Chess Story*
stefan zweig
Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
Introduction by Peter Gay
What’s for Dinner?
james schuyler
Afterword by James McCourt
2006
English, August: An Indian Story*
upamanyu chatterjee
Introduction by Akhil Sharma
Conundrum
jan morris
Life and Fate
vasily grossman
Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Robert Chandler
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
patrick leigh fermor
Introduction by Patricia Storace
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
patrick leigh fermor
Introduction by Michael Gorra
Stoner
john williams
Introduction by John McGahern
Beware of Pity
stefan zweig
Translated from the German by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt
Introduction by Joan Acocella
The Big Clock
kenneth fearing
Introduction by Nicholas Christopher
Red Lights†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Norman Denny
Introduction by Anita Brookner
The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the “History”*
henry adams
Introduction by Garry Wills
Love in a Fallen City*
eileen chang
Translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang
Introduction by Karen S. Kingsbury
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962
alistair horne
Clark Gifford’s Body
kenneth fearing
Introduction by Robert Polito
The Strangers in the House†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury, with revisions by David Watson and others
Introduction by P. D. James
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
EDMOND and JULES DE GONCOURT
Edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Robert Baldick
Foreword by Geoff Dyer
The Secret Commonwealth*
robert kirk
Introduction by Marina Warner
Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists
MARGOT and RUDOLF WITTKOWER
Introduction by Joseph Connors
The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems*
Translated from the Russian by Paul Schmidt
Edited by Catherine Ciepiela and Honor Moore
2007
Butcher’s Crossing
john williams
Introduction by Michelle Latiolais
erich auerbach
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
Introduction by Michael Dirda
The Slaves of Solitude
patrick hamilton
Introduction by David Lodge
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
carlo emilio gadda
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Introduction by Italo Calvino
The Engagement*†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
Afterword by John Gray
The Enchanted April
elizabeth von arnim
Introduction by Cathleen Schine
The Slynx
tatyana tolstaya
Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
White Walls: Collected Stories*
tatyana tolstaya
Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell and Antonina Bouis
Memoirs of Montparnasse
john glassco
Introduction by Louis Begley
The Dud Avocado
elaine dundy
Introduction by Terry Teachout
The Education of a Gardener
russell page
Preface by Robin Lane Fox
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
g.b. edwards
Introduction by John Fowles
Sunflower*
gyula krúdy
Translated from the Hungarian by John Bátki
Introduction by John Lukacs
Novels in Three Lines*
félix fénéon
Translated from the French and with an introduction by Luc Sante
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters
malcolm lowry
Edited and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
The Goshawk
t. h. white
Introduction by Marie Winn
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton*
edith wharton
Selected and with an introduction by Roxana Robinson
A Time to Keep Silence
patrick leigh fermor
Introduction by Karen Armstrong
Drawings by John Craxton
All About H. Hatterr
g.v. desani
Introduction by Anthony Burgess
Rogue Male
geoffrey household
Introduction by Victoria Nelson
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories
gregor von rezzori
Translated from the German by Gregor von Rezzori and Joachim Neugroschel
Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg
Soul and Other Stories*
andrey platonov
Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Katia Grigoruk, Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson, and Eric Naiman
Afterword by John Berger
2008
Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself
robert montgomery bird
Introduction by Christopher Looby
Poems of the Late T’ang
Translated from the Chinese and with an introduction by A. C. Graham
Unforgiving Years*
victor serge
Translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy
patrick hamilton
Introduction by Susanna Moore
Belchamber
howard sturgis
Introduction by Edmund White
Afterword by E.M. Forster
A Journey Round My Skull
frigyes karinthy
Translated from the Hungarian by Vernon Duckworth Barker
Introduction by Oliver Sacks
The Widow†
georges simenon
Translated from the French by John Petrie
Introduction by Paul Theroux
The Post-Office Girl*
stefan zweig
Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
Afloat*
guy de maupassant
Translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée
The Summer Book
tove jansson
Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
Introduction by Kathryn Davis
The Family Mashber
der nister
Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf
Introduction by David Malouf
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
george r. stewart
Introduction by Matt Weiland
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968†