Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...

This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd.  He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...

Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...

The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...

Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...

This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...

A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...

When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...

Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...