Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsc
A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Classics Original It was the late 1950s and the Communist regime of Romania was at its most punitiv
Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing national
