A landmark of twentieth-century literature. Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the...

One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a singular collaboration between two remarkable individuals: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate North African servant and street v...

Paul Bowles kept a diary for two years at the request of Antaeus magazine, and the result is this candid chronicle of music, celebrities, parties, and some inescapable ennui in Tangier. His preoccupations during this period included t...

This 17 tales in this collection were, Bowles claimed, inspired by Edgar Allen Poe. They include "At Paso Rojo," "Pastor Dowe at Tacate," "Senor Ong and Senor Ha," "The Circular Valley," "H...

Paul Bowles’s second novel, LET IT COME DOWN, was originally published in 1952. It tells the story of Nelson Dyar, a repressed American bank clerk fed up with his pointless life, who goes to Tangier looking for a different way ...

A striking collection of stories, poems, letters, travel essays, journal entries, excerpts from three novels, and more—including the complete text of The Sheltering Sky—from one of the most revered authors of the twentieth centur...

On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom the...