Anonymous, H. Jay Harris (trans). The Tales of Ise. Tuttle Publishing, 1972 (伊勢物語, 1900).
I think this must be the despair of translators. Even the short prose passages seem to imply the difficulty of poetry.
Alex Danchev. Cezanne: A Life. Pantheon, 2012.
It's often loose and can feel like a collection of anecdotes, but then there's something appropriate about letting incidents hang free as disconnected brushstrokes rather than plaster it all with narrative contour.