Twenty Favorite New Directions Releases (An International Selection)

(alphabetically by author, with five from England and the U.S., five from Latin America, five from Western Europe, and five from elsewhere)

 

England and the U.S.

  • The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

  • The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Little Labors by Rivka Galchen

  • Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

  • A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

Latin America

  • Ghosts by César Aira

  • Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

  • Literature Class by Julio Cortázar

  • Yesterday by Juan Emar

  • The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

Western Europe

  • Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy

  • Gogol’s Wife & Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi

  • Written Lives by Javier Marías

  • Loving Sabotage by Amélie Nothomb

  • The Beginners by Anne Serre

Elsewhere

  • Laziness in the Fertile Valley by Albert Cossery (who wrote in French but was Egyptian by birth and subject matter)

  • Moods by Yoel Hoffman (Israeli)

  • I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal (Czech)

  • A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin (Russian)

  • T Singer by Dag Solstad (Norwegian)

— April 7, 2022


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