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A National Book Award winner offers his most inventive novel to date

Life Itself is the first book-length study in English of the great Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon

Grabinoulor has been rediscovered only in the last few decades

this is a sensational and highly controversial novel by one of Korea’s most electrifying contemporary authors

Making Figures General his belovedAs a species and as a culture, we recognize ourselves by our capacity for possession, so that personhood is made equivalent to ownership. If, however, the way in which we imagine objects predisposes our behavior toward them, art can encourage us to reorient how we comport ourselves in a world that is not meant to be owned, that is not even meant for us. To frustrate the desolation of avarice, we must enrich our view of things, and Making FIgures takes