WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and 24 unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence.
Drawings, photos, handwritten manuscripts, and other visual materials...
True love or easy money--which would you choose?
Fresh out of grad school with her masters in philosophy, Anna is shocked when a career counselor tells her she has "no special skills." Desperate for work and financial independence, she accepts a thankless gig working for a TV talk show. She might be...
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The extraordinary testimony of a daring Caribbean writer-activist, determined to expose injustice and defend the dignity of migrant workers
A Words Without Borders Most Anticipated Book of 2026
In the 1960s, hundreds of women traveled from French colonies in the West Indies to become domestic workers...
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?
A Belletrist Book Club Pick • An Amazon UK Best Book of the Year • Winner of France’s First Novel Prize • Named a Best...
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Into the Sun—a radically strange and frighteningly prescient climate-disaster novel written a century ago by C. F. Ramuz, the great and eccentric Swiss-French novelist—is a book to boil you
It’s been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town—both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date—when...
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The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras.
In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely...
Calle's seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in English
In one of Sophie Calle's first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twenty-seven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist, a seamstress, a...
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In his sixth novel to be published into English, Abdellah Taïa explores the dissonance of one man’s homecoming marred by the memory of his tragic past and grief-filled present.
Upon his mother's death, Youssef—a Moroccan teacher who has lived in exile in France for a quarter of a century—returns to...
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.
The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing...
Nominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize
One of Flavorwire's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015
One of Entropy Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2015
One of Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From French
Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly...
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