Apocalypse
by Willis Barnestone
pb, Oct 2000, $7.00

The great epic poetic work of the New Testament, translated by the wonderful and highly esteemed translator and scholar Willis Barnstone.

Ancestors
By Kamau Brathwaite
pb, Feb 2001, $35.00

The long-awaited single volume of Kamau Brathwaite’s landmark trilogy -- Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self -- now completely revised, expanded, and reinvented by the author.

Unlock
by Bei Dao
pb, Sept 2000, $13.95

New poetry by the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet-in-exile.

The Melancholy of Resistance
by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
hc, Nov 2000, $25.95

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding a mysterious circus’ arrival in a small Hungarian town.

Mallarmé in Prose
by Stéphane Mallarmé
pb, Feb 2001, $14.95

Never-before translated prose pieces by the father of the Symbolist movement and one of the most influential cultural figures of 19th-century France.

A Heart So White
by Javier Marías
hc, Nov 2000, $24.95

Family secrets are the prime elements of A Heart So White, perhaps the greatest novel by "the most talented Spanish author alive" (Il Messagero).

All Souls
by Javier Marias
pb, Nov 2000, $13.95

With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University.

Loving Sabotage
by Amelie Nothomb
hc, Oct 2000, $21.95

Here in its American debut edition, Loving Sabotage is the remarkable second novel by young Belgian literary phenomenon Amélie Nothomb.

A Far Cry from Kensington
by Muriel Spark
pb, Sep 2000, $12.95

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation.

Minding the Darkness:
A Poem for the Year 2000
by Peter Dale Scott
pb, Oct 2000, $21.95

Minding the Darkness completes one of the most exciting trilogies of our time, which began with Coming to Jakarta and Listening to the Candle (ND’89 & ’92).

Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
pb, Nov 2000, $13.95

A landmark of Italian literature in a new modern translation.

Karmic Traces: 1993-1999
by Eliot Weinberger
paperback, Nov 2000, $15.95

Karmic Traces contains essays as entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poetry, making unexpected stops in odd corners of the globe.

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I - 1920-1945
hc, Nov 2000, $37.00

Tennessee Williams wrote letters to his family, friends and theatrical contacts as he wrote his plays: with an eye for precise detail, self-deprecating humor, and lyric grace.