Seagull Books
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Well-Kept Ruins
$21.00 Read moreA genre-defying book from one of France’s most well-known philosopher-writers.
In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabr?k. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westp- Series: French List
- Author: Cixous, Hélène
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090596
- Language: English
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Kafka’s Son
$25.00 Read moreA posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives.
Born in 1963, Szil疵d Borb駘y emerged as one of the most important poets of post-communist Europe, exploring the th- Series: Hungarian List
- Author: Borbély, Szilárd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092688
- Language: English
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Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014-2020
$21.00 Add to cartA highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time.
Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of- Series: Arab List
- Author: Zaqtan, Ghassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092386
- Language: English
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Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
$24.50 Read moreIncluding a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other’s work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris’ diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two… [more below]
- Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091916
- Language: English
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Blues in the Blood
$25.00 Read moreA moving ode to the Mississippi delta inspired by magical realism and written in vibrant and poetic prose.
Blues in the Blood is an ode to the spring of 1932 in the Mississippi delta, when stifling he- Series: French List
- Author: Delmaire, Julien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092467
- Language: English
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This Thing Called Love
$27.50 Read moreA heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, the friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death.
Just before the outbreak of the July 2006 war in Lebanon, a middle- Series: Arab List
- Author: Sobh, Alawiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090782
- Language: English
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Postcards from the Underworld: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartA chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it.
To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and- Series: Arab List
- Author: Antoon, Sinan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092505
- Language: English
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Delicates
$17.00 Read morePoems from a critically acclaimed Cuban writer available in English for the first time.
Imbued with a sensuality reminiscent of the work of Ana? Nin, Wendy Guerra’s Delicates takes readers on an exhi- Author: Guerra, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091665
- Language: English
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Correspondence
$16.50 Add to cartPaul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg … [more below]
- Series: German List
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0857426427
- Language: English
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$17.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963
$24.50 Read moreFrank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann’s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany.
With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts o- Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
- Author: Reimann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091800
- Language: English
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The Poems
$35.00 Read moreThe first complete publication of Robert Walser’s poems translated into English.
Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” by J. M. Coetze- Series: Swiss List
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: December 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090693
- Language: English
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Decapitated Poetry
$21.00 Add to cartPoems from a boisterously out and open queer voice from Taiwan.
Ko-hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry was the first explicitly queer book of poems published in Taiwan and remains a foundational work in Ta- Series: The Pride List
- Author: Chen, Ko-Hua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091649
- Language: English
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As Mornings and Mossgreen I. Step to the Window
$24.50 Read morePoetic prose meditations translated superbly into English.
Austrian poet Friederike Mayr?ker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.- Series: German List
- Author: Mayr?cker, Friederike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091428
- Language: English
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Words: A Collation
$30.00 Read moreAn exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist.
Over the past several years, renowned South African artist William Kentridge has made a collection of particular phras- Series: Africa List
- Author: Kentridge, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092173
- Language: English
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When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
$18.00 Add to cartGiorgio Agamben tackles our crisis-ridden world in a series of powerful philosophical essays.
“Which house is burning?” asks Giorgio Agamben. “The country where you live, or Europe, or the whole worl- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092068
- Language: English
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24 Hours with Gaspar
$24.50 Read moreA breathtakingly imaginative futuristic crime thriller.
Decades into the future, Indonesia’s crowded capital city is underwater. A mysterious novelist searches what remains of the metropolis for the- Author: Armandio, Sabda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092041
- Language: English
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The Blue Light
$21.00 Add to cartThe Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language.
Hussein Bargouthi tells his story with Bari, a Turkish American Sufi, during Bar- Series: Arab List
- Author: Barghouthi, Hussein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090839
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
