Panorama
A Novel
Written by H. G. Adler
Afterword by Peter Demetz
Translated by Peter Filkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8060-8 (0-8129-8060-3)

Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and... Read more >

Paradiso

Written by Dante

Format: Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: January 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21204-4 (0-553-21204-4)

The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice... Read more >

Purgatorio

Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum

Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21344-7 (0-553-21344-X)

This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >

A Meaningful Life

Written by L.J. Davis
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-300-8 (1-59017-300-7)

L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to... Read more >

An Accidental Light

Written by Elizabeth Diamond

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-301-9 (1-59051-301-0)

On a quiet road just outside London, in the blue half-light of dusk, a fatal car accident takes the life of thirteen-year-old Laura Jenkins, and her death changes the lives of two families forever. For Jack Philips, a married police officer with two small daughters, the consequences of that evening behind... Read more >

Nikolski
A Novel
Written by Nicolas Dickner
Translated by Lazer Lederhendler

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Trumpeter
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-714-4 (1-59030-714-3)

A sweet and quirky novel that follows three characters as they search for home while clinging to artifacts of their past: a misdirected compass, a book with no cover, and tales of piracy.

This is a story of three characters—Noah, Joyce, and the anonymous narrator—as each leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow... Read more >

The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal

Written by Sean Dixon

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-312-5 (1-59051-312-6)

"The individuals that make up the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club–if you include auxiliary members and hangers-on–add up to twelve. The number is reduced to ten if you exclude the two narrators (which seems unkind though they would be the first to admit they have little effect on the... Read more >

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-21444-4 (0-553-21444-6)

The centerpiece of this collection , "The Eternal Husband" (1890) is one of Dostoevsky's most perfect works. Classical in form, it presents his most profound exploration of mimetic rivalry and the duality of human consciousness. Told from the point of view of a rich and idle man who is confronted by... Read more >

On Method Acting

Written by Edward Dwight

Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Ivy Books
On Sale: July 30, 1989
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-8041-0522-4 (0-8041-0522-7)

Practiced by such actors of stature as Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Julie Harris, Dustin Hoffman, and Ellen Burstyn (not to mention the late James Dean) the Method offers a practical application of the renowned Stanislavsky technique. On Method Acting demystifies the "mysteries" of Method acting–breaking down the various steps into clear... Read more >

Necessary Targets
A Story of Women and War
Written by Eve Ensler

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Villard
On Sale: January 23, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75603-0 (0-375-75603-5)

In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves. Necessary Targets... Read more >

Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction by Anne Carson

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-253-7 (1-59017-253-1)

Euripides reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. His plays were shocking: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless—women and children, slaves and barbarians—for whom tragedy was not... Read more >

Sister Age

Written by M.F.K. Fisher

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1984
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72385-3 (0-394-72385-6)

In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces age as St. Francis welcomed Brother Pain. With a saint to guide us, she writes in her Foreword, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy... Read more >

Jane Boleyn
The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Written by Julia Fox

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51078-5 (0-345-51078-X)

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power–including her own husband and her sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn–Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarch was... Read more >

Copenhagen

Written by Michael Frayn

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 8, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72079-3 (0-385-72079-3)

In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionized atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world... Read more >

All That I Have
A Novel
Written by Castle Freeman, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Steerforth
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-58642-151-9 (1-58642-151-4)

Sheriff Lucian Wing confronts a series of challenges to his settled way of life, his work, his society, and his marriage in this gripping, darkly funny and wise follow-up to Castle Freeman Jr.'s celebrated novel Go With Me.

Wing is an experienced pragmatist who enforces the law with a steady hand and... Read more >

The Folded World
A Novel
Written by Amity Gaige

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7854-4 (0-8129-7854-4)

When Charlie Shade and Alice Bussard find each other, neither is prepared for the powerful, aching feeling of love that unites them. After falling for the cheerful and empathetic young man, Alice asks God: “Please, leave us alone. Leave us just like this.” But as their relationship evolves, and their family... Read more >

The Middle Sister
A Novel
Written by Bonnie Glover

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-48090-3 (0-345-48090-2)

“As Kwai Chang moved through the arid desert of the American West, I would move through the equally desolate ghettos of Brooklyn, and we would each search: he for his family and I for my father. . . .”

The middle of three sisters, Pamela is a quiet, thoughtful girl with a... Read more >

Sex and Death to the Age 14

Written by Spalding Gray

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 1986
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74257-1 (0-394-74257-5)

This is a collection of six monologues by the master of one-man drama. Included are "Sex and Death at the Age of 14," "Booze, Cars, and College Girls," "47 Beds," "Nobody Wanted to Sit Behind a Desk," "Travels through New England," and "Terror of Pleasure: The House." Also includes a preface... Read more >

A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy

Written by Charlotte Greig

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-317-0 (1-59051-317-7)

Susannah’s official boyfriend, Jason, is the perfect foil for her student lifestyle. He is ten years older, an antiques dealer, and owns a stylish apartment that prevents her from having to live in the seedy digs on campus. This way, she can take her philosophy major very seriously and dabble in... Read more >

Gross Indecency
The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Written by Moises Kaufman

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 1998
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70232-7 (0-375-70232-6)

In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment... Read more >

The Laramie Project

Written by Moises Kaufman

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72719-1 (0-375-72719-1)

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project–whose previous play, Gross Indecency, was hailed as a work of unsurpassed originality–conducted hundreds of interviews with the citizens of Laramie, Wyoming, to create this portrait of a town struggling with a horrific... Read more >

The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management, 3rd Edition
Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance
Written by Thomas A. Kelly

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Back Stage Books
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-9802-6 (0-8230-9802-8)

The Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and Expanded


The next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date. First published in 1991, it is widely used and has been lauded as the most... Read more >

The Age of Shakespeare

Written by Frank Kermode

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7433-1 (0-8129-7433-6)

In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader... Read more >

The Duchess of Malfi
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Edited by Frank Kermode

Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64243-5 (0-679-64243-9)

The lyrical, bloodthirsty tragedies and witty urban comedies in this original collection were first performed during the reign of King James I (1603—25). Though nearly four centuries old, they display surprisingly modern sensibilities regarding sex, violence, morality, and honor. Brilliantly introduced and annotated by Frank Kermode, britain’s most distinguished scholar of... Read more >

Leading Women
Plays for Actresses 2
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72666-8 (0-375-72666-7)

Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this magnificently diverse collection of plays—full-lengths, one-acts, and monologues—with mainly female casts, which represent the answer to any actress's prayer.

The editors of the... Read more >