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  • Anti-Zionism

    A Jewish History

    by Benjamin Moser ...
    A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and ... Read more

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  • An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

    by Clarice Lispector, Sheila Heti, Benjamin Moser ...
    Translated by Stefan Tobler ...
    Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writerLóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Passion According to G.H.

    by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser ...
    Translated by Idra Novey ...
    Lispector’s most shocking novel.The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door —crushing the cockroach —and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Sontag

    Her Life and Work

    by Benjamin Moser ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning "landmark biography" of the towering 20th century intellectual, exploring the hidden struggles behind the formidable public face ( The New York Times).Named one of the Best Books of the Year by O Magazine , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , and Seattle TimesFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNo writer is as emblematic of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Água Viva

    by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser ...
    Translated by Stefan Tobler ...
    Lispector at her most philosophically radical.A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Água Viva stands out as a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Near to the Wild Heart

    by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser ...
    Translated by Alison Entrekin ...
    This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Geography of Rebels Trilogy

    The Book of Communities, The Remaining Life, and In the House of July & August

    by Maria Gabriela Llansol, Gonçalo M. Tavares ...
    Translated by Audrey Young ...
    A major discovery, with echoes of Clarice Lispector, Llansol's groundbreaking linked novellas present her unique literary vision of writing as lived life, conjuring historical figures and their ideas into her world. "I live what I have written (and what I have yet to write), as posthumous work. Its longevity will outlive mine. It will have to exist by itself." ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hour of the Star (Second Edition)

    by Clarice Lispector ...
    Translated by Benjamin Moser ...
    A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín.Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Upside-Down World

    Meetings with the Dutch Masters

    by Benjamin Moser ...
    **A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.**Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • A Breath of Life

    by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser ...
    Translated by Johnny Lorenz ...
    A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.At her ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Chronicle of the Murdered House

    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    by Lúcio Cardoso ...
    This never-before-translated classic of Brazilian, and gay, literature is a Faulknerian saga depicting the unraveling of a traditional patriarchal family. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Left in Dark Times

    A Stand Against the New Barbarism

    Translated by Benjamin Moser ...
    by Bernard-Henri Lévy ...
    In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what will it look like? And how is it ... Read more

    $6.99 USD