The Assistant, is the amazing 1908 novel by Robert Walser, the Swiss author admired by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin and W. G. Sebald. "A truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer," claimed Susan Sontag. In The Assistant, an inventor’s assistant is hired to work on a splendid hilltop villa over Lake Zurich, and his inner life of cascading emotions are poured forth, all the raptures of someone "drowning in obedience."

A tour de force of black humor, Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as an encyclopedia of extremely right-wing writers. This is the book that made Bolaño famous in the Spanish-speaking world, "providing a key cosmology to Bolaño’s universe" (Francisco Goldman). "One of the most respected and influential writers of his generation" (John Banville, The Nation).