Arts, Literature and Humanities

Connected Places is a study in the religious geography of India. It explores ways in which people live in and understand their worlds. In the book,...

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Revisiting Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl: Writings on a Modern Persian Novel is a commemorative volume of thirteen scholarly articles on the Persian no...

Gender, Religion and Local History: The Early Deccan straddles two areas of research, namely the study of women in a socio-religious context and im...

An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive phil...

A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems. In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrik...

A brilliant collection of micro-fiction, reflecting our fragmented times. With quirky humor and wry insight, Swiss author Judith Keller’s micro-f...

With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation. Through his many criti...

Dramatic sketches full of surprising, unpredictable twists and turns from a major twentieth-century German-language author. A member of the Grupp...

Poetic prose meditations translated superbly into English. Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker is widely considered one of the most important Euro...

A metafictional novel about two intertwined stories of love that seek to perpetuate themselves in history. The Worst Thing of All Is the Light tel...

Set in Slovakia, a revealing narrative about contemporary society. An accidental pregnancy, a good-looking man who cares about no one but himself,...

The first English translation of Yves Bonnefoy’s account of his life as a traveler. The Wandering Life is a poetic culmination of Yves Bonnefoy’s...

A compelling memoir that focuses on the intersectionality of race and sexuality experienced by a gay Asian man living in a white world. Born to C...

The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language. Hussein Bargouthi tells his...

Written in the first four months of the war in Ukraine, fuelled by anger towards mindless violence, Nemec’s stories tackle the present moment and c...

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in her late thirties is diagnosed with her third epi...

Traditional African narrative forms combined with European modernism. The stories comprising The Healer, Marek Vadas’s first collection, which wa...

A trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller...

A lyrical novel with a poetic narrative about an overlooked individual in Arab African history. For two days the rabbi rides on a donkey to find t...

A deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France. Dying of Thinking is the ninth v...

A lyrical novel concerning belonging, foreignness, and ethnicity. Following the path of her late geneticist husband, Laure arrives in the town of...

Concealing Caste opens a window into the experience of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are p...

A literary glimpse into the early decades of independent India. Drawing influences from Indian folktales, French existentialism, and the Bengali H...

A breathtakingly imaginative futuristic crime thriller. Decades into the future, Indonesia’s crowded capital city is underwater. A mysterious nov...

This book brings to focus one of the prominent 20th century Indian thinkers, Sri Aurobindo, by providing an overview of his philosophy on life and ...

A glimpse into the world of young people, modern nomads, roving in search of a new and promising life. The Moon in Foil traces the stories of Petr...

This book takes readers across the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions tha...

The extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou sits halfway between fable and philosophy. “It was twenty-five centuries ago in the land of Song, between th...

An engaging exploration of romance focusing on disparate ages of lovers. Sunday evening, Tegel Airport, Berlin: A woman strikes up a conversation ...

Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also sho...

This book is an offering―of prose, poetry, musical lyrics, and visual art―by the women of Meghalaya in Northeast India. One of the smallest states ...

Embedding Subversion and Gender Identity: ‘Ulti’, the Secret Language of the Hijra-Koti Community opens a window on to the world of the hijra-koti ...

A captivating and wide-ranging interpretation of accidental dismounting. In Pascal Quignard’s writing, philology hunts for wild game in a dark fo...

On the second Saturday of each month, on the outskirts of the ancient city of Varanasi, Shiva's own city, thousands of shudra and Dalit devotees wo...

Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past ...

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

Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the fir...

This work is the first comprehensive effort to recover the forgotten histories of the highly impactful women's association, the Assam Mahila Samiti...

An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist. Over the past several years, renowned South African artist Willi...

“I believe that we should have a sense of history. In a sense, an autobiography is history. It has in it traces of geography as well. Each new plac...

A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden...

A beautifully produced volume featuring the work of a major German artist. While a face may be considered a head, a head does not necessarily carr...

The first and exhaustive biography of twentieth-century leftist philosopher Andre Gorz. Recognized as one of the most lucid and innovative critics ...

Rethinking Buddhism: Text, Context, Contestation deals with textual traditions, contextualization, and contestation in Indian Buddhism. The essays ...

This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. I...