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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843

One of Europe's greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.

With or Without Me: A Memoir of Losing and Finding

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word is a Traitor

Alexander Kluge's most recent essay collection: 48 stories of justice and injustice dedicated to the memory of Fritz Bauer, district attorney of Hesse during the Auschwitz Trials.

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again

Edited by Ilan Stavans; translation of Jhumpa Lahiri's "Letter to Italy." In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.

I Belong to Vienna

A defiant memoir from contemporary Europe by Anna Goldenberg.

Fiction

Identitti

The UK/IE/EU edition of Mithu Sanyal's novel, which The New York Times called 'A provocative and knotty debut.'

Identitti

Mithu Sanyal's thought-provoking, genre-bending debut novel was a finalist for the German Book Prize. This darkly comedic tour de force showcases the outsized power of social media in the current debates about identity politics and highlights the power of claiming your own voice.

New Year

German Author Juli Zeh's latest English translation selected as a finalist for the 2022 PEN Translation Prize and Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize

An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence

In her stunning second novel, Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colourful pictures. With humor and wit, she describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together—a world bursting with character and spirit.

Nonfiction

Alfa-Beta: The Study and Design of Type

The reissue of a typographic masterpiece by Aldo Novarese, now with essays by Enrico Tallone, Tommaso Trojani, and the design team at Archivio Tipografico / Studio 23.56.

Adrian Frutiger

Typophiles Monograph, New Series No. 30. The text is set in fourteen different types designed by Frutiger. Cover printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson. Designed by Maxim Zhukov.

The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic

Jürgen Holstein's unparalleled collection from Weimar-era Berlin publishers.

The Dynamic Library

Essays from an interdisciplinary symposium held at Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Literary Nonfiction

The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.

The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories

One of Italy's best-known writers takes a Grand Tour in search of the true character of this contradictory nation.

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