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A 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 sig...

A beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Praised by Paul Auster as “one of the rar...

Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, études is a diary-like sequence of poems by o...

Heralded as one of France's greatest poets, Yves Bonnefoy has been dazzling readers since the publication of his first book in 1953. He remains inf...

Two plays exploring the dark side of power and the human cost of injustice. What is the fate of justice when morality is subservient to power? Wh...

In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity’s ...

One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During...

In Young Light, novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s G...

An intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy’s childhood memories. In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 9...

The best-known dramatic works of Paula in its first English translation. This volume brings together the best-known dramatic works of Argentine pl...

When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with...

A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death. The first book in Pascal Quign...

The second volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland’s most prominent and prolific men of letters. One of Europe’s finest contempora...

Poems from a boisterously out and open queer voice from Taiwan. Ko-hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry was the first explicitly queer book of poems pub...

A timely book addressing the burning concerns of our times, from the excesses of capitalism to the global crisis of leadership. There is widespre...

Is it possible to fight for social justice if you’ve never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you’re in love? Forty-six-year-ol...

A critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the cen...

The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland’s most prominent and prolific men of letters. Seedtime―Jaccottet’s notebooks―is ...

Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between ...

Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wi...

A man walks out of a bar and is later found dead at the wheel of his car. On the basis of a few overheard remarks and his own observations, the nar...

A riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom. Cairo ...

A renowned novel of self-deceit and self-acceptance. Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation...

"I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have liked me, and I’ve liked too many men." ...

In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary Class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and u...

No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to ...

On its publication in German, Against the World was hailed as an immediate classic. “One of the most spectacular debuts of recent decades,” said Ku...

The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven toge...

A crucial text at the intersection of history and philosophy in twentieth-century Italy. On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist rev...

A vital addition to Seagull’s growing Italian List that focuses on leftist Italian thought, bringing famous as well as little-known yet crucial voi...

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...

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of t...

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...

A novel of intersecting historical threads. The Tears is, at one level, a novel about the turbulent lives of twins, the sons of Charlemagne’s daug...

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...