A fresh translation of two seminal works of existentialism "To understand Jean-Paul Sartre is to und... more

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discoverin... more

Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human ... more

In seventeenth-century France, Jeanne Guyon wrote about God, "I loved him, and I burned with his fir... more

flaps and deckle-edged paper Carol Clark’s acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American...... more

A multilayered, magical story of love and fate as two modern city-dwellers grapple with traditional ... more

This book describes the use of therapeutic art, music, and dance interventions against a background ... more

Named one of "the best Russian novels of the 21st Century," The Underground is the unforgettable sto... more

The more softly the word is pronounced The more ardent, the more miraculous. The less it dreams of b... more

Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual histo... more

The Soul, Lover of God unites the 17th century poetry and art of two famous European authors, Madame... more

Una impresionante novela de esperanzas y sueños, culpa y amor, un libro que ofrece una nueva definic... more

An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life--lords and l... more

German Sadulaev’s follow-up to his acclaimed "I am a Chechen! "is set in a twenty-first century Russ... more

Mexico, December 9, 1531. Ten years after the Spaniards conquered this land, on a hill on the outski... more

On March 16, 1758, the turmoil sweeping North America came crashing down on the little log mission o... more

This is the first English translation of Robert the Monk s Historia Iherosolimitana, a Latin prose c... more

An engaging introduction to contemporary debates in literary theory In the late twentieth century, t... more

Hailed as a concise survey of Islamic history and culture, An Introduction to Islam covers everythin... more

Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant ... more

The fundamental gesture of weaving in The Craft of Zeus is the interlacing of warp and woof describe... more

Throughout history, the slaughter and consumption of the pig has been the inspiration for role-playi... more

Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January... more

time in paperback, it includes an afterword written by Carol Neel that takes into account recent scholarship and the 1991...... more

Olivier Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the... more

Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many... more

Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that ... more

WINNER of the 2008 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE... more

When Nathan Wachtel, the distinguished historical anthropologist, returned to the village of Chipaya... more

Raymonde Carroll presents an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and American... more

The years 738-745/121-127, which this volume covers, saw the outbreak in Syria of savage internecine... more

Perhaps the most popular and beloved children s story of all time, Pinocchio tells the story of a wo... more

Summoned to the Roman Courts is the first work by Detlef Liebs, an internationally recognized expert... more

It is fun to knit teddy bears and comforting to think that the bear can become a beloved friend for ... more

AlthoughThe History of the Holy Grail opens the Vulgate Cycle, it was added after the events describ... more

The Arthurian episodic romance, which includes the love story of Lancelot and Guinevere and the Ques... more

Not since The Reader has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in... more

There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew s refusal to abandon God,... more

This is the first historical survey of the Gulag based on newly accessible archival sources as well ... more

The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss schol... more

vi the text can engender. Of course, translations by scholars of advanced standing are not a novelty... more

the height of his powers. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers...... more

A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful wo... more

The book is a translation and critical edition of The Prosecutor written by Paraguay’s most famous w... more

Carol Salomon dedicated over thirty years of her life to researching, translating, and annotating this compilation of...... more