New York Times Editors’ Choice“A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence.”—The New York TimesBuried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family’s farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an a...

Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I,"...

'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel KahnemanIn this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketches of some of the puppets who stand guard, and the jugglers and conjurers employed within. Most spectacular of all, however, are the astonishing contortions performe...

Jonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and former doctoral student in classics, is summoned to Rome for a case and stumbles across a message hidden inside an ancient stone fragment. The discovery propels him and UN preservationist Dr. Emili Travia into a coldblooded modern plot to erase every remnant of Jewish and Christian presence from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, in the process redefining history itself.

The zen mind is the beginner’s mind, which sees everything as if for the first time. It is in this zen mind that realization comes. People sit for many years in meditation to find that suddenly in hearing something again for the first time, they’re lifted to a state of understanding that’s far beyond anything they’ve ever experienced. This is why the sayings in this book were written. They’re not meant to teach, but rather to remind you of things you already know.

In 2015, the Argentinian novelist Eduardo Berti spent several weeks in a “medico-literary” residency at the University Hospital Centre in Rouen, France, observing and conversing with the staff and volunteers of its palliative care department. From that experience he created this series of lightly fictionalized testimonials from nurses, nursing aides, doctors, administrators, porters, volunteer musicians, and the other people who make the unit tick. The result is a distinctly intimate and o...

What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau—and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature’s quirkiest movements.An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature’s possibilities, the Oulipo (the French...

The Holocaust: A Concise HistoryBy Daniel LevinThe Holocaust is often remembered through images of camps, gas chambers, and mass graves-scenes so overwhelming they can feel detached from ordinary history. This distance, while understandable, obscures a crucial truth: the Holocaust did not erupt suddenly or irrationally. It unfolded through a process.The Holocaust: A Concise History offers a clear, disciplined account of how genocide became possible in the heart of m...

Golda Meir: My Life for a Homeland is the extraordinary story of a girl who rose from the frozen streets of Kiev and the crowded tenements of Milwaukee to become one of the founding mothers of the State of Israel. In this moving, vivid, and slightly fictionalized autobiography, Golda's voice speaks with fierce honesty about fear, hope, and the unbreakable will to build a future from nothing but dreams.Born into a world where survival was never guaranteed and antise...

Spanning more than three millennia, From Israel to Israel traces the extraordinary journey of the Jewish people from the rise of the ancient kingdom of Israel to the founding of the modern State of Israel. It is a story of faith, resilience, exile, and return - a testament to the endurance of memory and the unbreakable bond between a people and their destiny.This sweeping narrative brings to life the towering figures of Jewish history - kings, prophets, philosophers, and p...

"David Ben-Gurion: A Life for Israel" is a sweeping, intimate, and deeply human fictionalized narrative biography of one of the most iconic figures in modern Jewish history.Told in Ben-Gurion's own imagined voice, this literary journey traces the life of Israel's founding father from the dusty streets of Plonsk to the desert sands of Sde Boker. Along the way, it captures not only the political battles and historic decisions that shaped the State of Israel, but also...

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first timeÉric Chevillard is one of France’s leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and Voltaire—with some good-natured postmodern twists.This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, st...