The Face is almost here! Get all three for $20.

The Face has landed at Restless HQ in Brooklyn! On March 1st, we'll be launching this groundbreaking new series of personal nonfiction with three of our most original writers—Ruth Ozeki, Tash Aw, and Chris Abani. To celebrate, we are offering a special deal on all three books if you buy direct from Restless.

With The Face, we've asked a diverse group of writers to take readers on a guided tour of that most intimate terrain: their own faces. Alternately philosophical, funny, personal, political, and poetic, the short memoirs in The Face series offer unique perspectives on race, culture, identity, and the human experience from some of our most dynamic literary writers. Our inspiration for The Face comes from a passage by Jorge Luis Borges:

“As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.”

Get a jump on the series by pre-ordering all three for an even $20. Order here.

Read an excerpt of Tash Aw's The Face: Strangers on a Pier on the New Yorker website.

Presenting the Next Books in the Restless Classics Series

With the Kickstarter campaign for launching Don Quixote as the first Restless Classic well underway, Restless Books is pleased to announce the next four books due to get the same treatment—deluxe editions, new supplementary content and context, and interactive features with passionate teachers via video series and online book club discussions. These timeless works still speak to our time and place—and especially to our “restlessness.” We’ll be bringing them back in splendid fashion, and we hope you’ll join us for the conversation.

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Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe 

This classic about a shipwreck survivor—often framed as as a parable of English pluck and industry (and cannibals)—is due for a reboot. Written in 1719 during the crescendo of the British empire, the book has fascinating things to tell us about colonialism and globalization. The Restless Classics edition will include perspectives on the book from writers and thinkers across the world and history whose own cultural inheritance was shaped by imperial expansion.

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The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois

Born in Massachusetts three years after the abolition of slavery, W.E.B. Dubois’s life as an activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar spanned the the course of civil rights history from emancipation to the marches and movements of the 1960s. Unprecedented in its time, his monumental work The Souls of Black Folk remains a profound and essential exploration of questions of race, justice, and the human spirit. The restless classics edition will explore what Dubois’s wisdom can still teach us today.

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Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

No, you’ve been getting it all wrong: The doctor is Frankenstein; the one with the bolts in its neck is Frankenstein’s monster. Wait, he doesn’t have bolts in his neck? We’ll have to revisit this grotesque, thrilling tale that spawned the horror and science fiction genres, and still resonates with today’s debates about the limits and frightening power of science and human ambition.

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Poems, Protest, and a Dream, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

The original badass nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz wrote this fierce injunction against the bishop who wanted to stymie her intellectual pursuits in the 1600s, during a time when the Spanish empire (in what would later become Mexico) gave little credence to women’s capabilities. This remarkable collection is a foundational work not only of feminism, but also of Hispanic literature.

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Restless Women Travelers Is Back for Summer 2015!

At last, summer has arrived!  A great book is the perfect accompaniment to summer travels, whether you're adventuring abroad or to the beach. Restless is pleased to bring you more of our favorite classic and contemporary travel narratives through our Restless Women Travelers series, now in its second summer. Published as affordable eBooks, they're optimized for reading on the go.

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Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone the 600 miles on the Niger River of Mali to Timbuktu, retracing the fatal journey of the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Enduring tropical storms, unruly hippos, fierce rapids, and the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert, Salak traveled solo through one of the most desolate and dangerous regions in Africa, where little had changed since Mungo Park was taken captive by Moors in 1797. Finally, weak with dysentery but triumphant, she arrived in the fabled city of Timbuktu and fulfilled her ultimate goal: buying the freedom of two Bella slave women. The Cruelest Journey is an unputdownable adventure story as well as a meditation on courage and self-mastery by one of our most accomplished travel writers.

List Price $14.99

Buy from: Amazon | iBooks | Kobo

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A vivid, varied account of a globally-minded woman’s intriguing adventures and evolving worldview, Santha Rama Rau’s autobiography covers a life defined by almost perpetual motion—from her birth in India to an upbringing in England and South Africa, from her education at Wellesley College in the United States to far-flung travel to China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Spain, and beyond. Part memoir, part journalism, Gifts of Passage is at once intimate and expansive, taking the reader on a tour of Indian family life, repression in South Africa, the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, and the early stirrings of Indian democracy.

List Price: $9.99
Buy from: Amazon | iBooks | Kobo

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