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New German Plays for Challenging Times

Re-Staging Trauma, Migration and Digital Dilemmas

by Ewe Benbenek, Wolfgang Herrndorf, Robert Koall, Maria Milisavljevic, Felicia Zeller, Sivan Ben Yishai, Ivana Sokola ...

Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte ...

Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
Despite the vibrancy and formal innovation characterizing contemporary drama in German-speaking countries, English-language access to these works remains markedly limited. Since the early 21st century, few translations have reached anglophone audiences, creating a significant gap in cross-cultural theatrical exchange. This anthology addresses that absence by presenting six plays by prominent ... Read more

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Despite the vibrancy and formal innovation characterizing contemporary drama in German-speaking countries, English-language access to these works remains markedly limited. Since the early 21st century, few translations have reached anglophone audiences, creating a significant gap in cross-cultural theatrical exchange. This anthology addresses that absence by presenting six plays by prominent
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Every Day I Read

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?How often do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?How often do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our
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Nation of Strangers

Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century

by Ece Temelkuran ...

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for NonfictionFrom the internationally acclaimed Turkish author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism: A personal exploration of exile and a galvanizing new vision of home.Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for NonfictionFrom the internationally acclaimed Turkish author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism: A personal exploration of exile and a galvanizing new vision of home.Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the
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Your Name Here

by Helen Dewitt, Ilya Gridneff ...

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave ... Read more

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A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave
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Survivor Café

The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

by Elizabeth Rosner ...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearAn “impressive, highly readable” exploration of “atrocity, trauma, and memory” that examines the legacies of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and other mass trauma events—“a powerful book” (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer).As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century’s most monumental events—the Holocaust, Hiroshima, ... Read more

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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearAn “impressive, highly readable” exploration of “atrocity, trauma, and memory” that examines the legacies of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and other mass trauma events—“a powerful book” (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer).As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century’s most monumental events—the Holocaust, Hiroshima,
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The Best American Essays 2018

by Hilton Als ...

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The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" ( New York Times) to the task."The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great ... Read more

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The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" ( New York Times) to the task."The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great
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Karaoke Culture

by Dubravka Ugresic ...

Translated by David Williams, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Celia Hawkesworth ...

Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar. ... Read more

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Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar.
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A Sense of Direction

Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful

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In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape.Determined to avoid the fear and self-sacrifice that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken ... Read more

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In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape.Determined to avoid the fear and self-sacrifice that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken
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Wherever You Go, There They Are

Stories About My Family You Might Relate To

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A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along the way.When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly ... Read more

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A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along the way.When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly
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Nein, Nein, Nein!

One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust

by Jerry Stahl ...

Now in paperback and featuring an interview with Ben Stiller; a guided group tour to concentration camps allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humorIN SEPTEMBER 2016, JERRY STAHL was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It ... Read more

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Now in paperback and featuring an interview with Ben Stiller; a guided group tour to concentration camps allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humorIN SEPTEMBER 2016, JERRY STAHL was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It
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Europe in Sepia

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Translated by David Williams ...

Dubravka Ugresic's follow-up to the NBCC Award Finalist Karaoke Culture and features some of her sharpest and funniest pieces yet. ... Read more

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Schadenfreude, A Love Story

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" A wild and wonderful ride" from a comic memoirist "who writes brilliantly about Germany and Germans . . . and being young and insane. . . . just read it, ok?" (Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Best. State. Ever).You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? There's a word for this mix of ... Read more

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" A wild and wonderful ride" from a comic memoirist "who writes brilliantly about Germany and Germans . . . and being young and insane. . . . just read it, ok?" (Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Best. State. Ever).You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? There's a word for this mix of
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