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a non-profit press devoted to contemporary and classic international literature
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We've a mere four titles in today's publisher preview with Elsewhere Editions of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social, but whatta four it is! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/01/30/e...
Elsewhere Editions Publisher Preview (Spring & Fall 2026)
We've a mere four titles in today's publisher preview but whatta four it is!
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January 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM
We've a mere four titles in today's publisher preview with Elsewhere Editions of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social, but whatta four it is! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/01/30/e...
Swing by this Saturday afternoon!
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Swing by this Saturday afternoon!
Emmelie Prophète's Cécé, translated by Aidan Rooney, is an LA Times best book of 2025.
"Cécé can be read as a portrait of contemporary Haiti, a parable about influencer culture or a distressing study of exploitation . . . Prophète’s vision is piercing."
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"Cécé can be read as a portrait of contemporary Haiti, a parable about influencer culture or a distressing study of exploitation . . . Prophète’s vision is piercing."
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The 15 best books of 2025
Why our top picks of the year were about serial killers, silence and the enduring grace of the written word, according to The Times' reviewers.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Emmelie Prophète's Cécé, translated by Aidan Rooney, is an LA Times best book of 2025.
"Cécé can be read as a portrait of contemporary Haiti, a parable about influencer culture or a distressing study of exploitation . . . Prophète’s vision is piercing."
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
"Cécé can be read as a portrait of contemporary Haiti, a parable about influencer culture or a distressing study of exploitation . . . Prophète’s vision is piercing."
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Today’s Featured Poem:
"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" by Christian Lehnert, translated by Richard Sieburth from wickerwork published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Read here:
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"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" by Christian Lehnert, translated by Richard Sieburth from wickerwork published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/thyme-s...
"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter"
In the sun it exhibits / its split petioles /
Its sheets of bark / mushrooms in their folds /
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December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" by Christian Lehnert, translated by Richard Sieburth from wickerwork published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/thyme-s...
"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" by Christian Lehnert, translated by Richard Sieburth from wickerwork published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/thyme-s...
Tomorrow at BAM we're celebrating the English release of Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues with a 35mm screening of Straub and Huillet's final feature, These Encounters of Theirs (2005).
Thank you @criterion.bsky.social for the lovely mention:
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Thank you @criterion.bsky.social for the lovely mention:
www.criterion.com/current/post...
Encounters with Straub and Huillet and Costa
BAM presents These Encounters of Theirs on 35 mm, and Pedro Costa screens and discusses movies in Copenhagen.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Tomorrow at BAM we're celebrating the English release of Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues with a 35mm screening of Straub and Huillet's final feature, These Encounters of Theirs (2005).
Thank you @criterion.bsky.social for the lovely mention:
www.criterion.com/current/post...
Thank you @criterion.bsky.social for the lovely mention:
www.criterion.com/current/post...
You can now listen to a beautiful conversation between Selma Asotić (we published her debut, Say Fire, this September) and Abby Walthausen in A Lovely Wallpaper.
Listen on Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/10SC...
Listen on Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/10SC...
"Try to Praise the Mutilated W… - A Lovely Wallpaper - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · A Lovely Wallpaper · 11/26/2025 · 1h 20m
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December 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
You can now listen to a beautiful conversation between Selma Asotić (we published her debut, Say Fire, this September) and Abby Walthausen in A Lovely Wallpaper.
Listen on Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/10SC...
Listen on Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/10SC...
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PREPOSITION reviews SAY FIRE (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social, 2025) by @Selma Asotić.
"...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..."
www.prepositionmag.com/asoti%C4%87-...
"...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..."
www.prepositionmag.com/asoti%C4%87-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
PREPOSITION reviews SAY FIRE (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social, 2025) by @Selma Asotić.
"...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..."
www.prepositionmag.com/asoti%C4%87-...
"...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..."
www.prepositionmag.com/asoti%C4%87-...
Sale time! Enjoy 40% off when you shop Archipelago and Elsewhere titles until December 8th. With each book you purchase, we'll donate a book to a library or prison program on your behalf. Code: "BUYONEGIVEONE."
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November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sale time! Enjoy 40% off when you shop Archipelago and Elsewhere titles until December 8th. With each book you purchase, we'll donate a book to a library or prison program on your behalf. Code: "BUYONEGIVEONE."
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A great day for book mail from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social!
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A great day for book mail from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social!
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Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...
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Today we publish this masterpiece of Italian letters.
A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch.
—Sam Lipsyte
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A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch.
—Sam Lipsyte
archipelagobooks.org/book/one-non...
October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Today we publish this masterpiece of Italian letters.
A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch.
—Sam Lipsyte
archipelagobooks.org/book/one-non...
A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch.
—Sam Lipsyte
archipelagobooks.org/book/one-non...
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"I know you’re still bewildered, irritated, mortified by your disgraceful behavior towards your old friend..."
⊱ From ONE, NONE, AND A HUNDRED GRAND by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Sean Wilsey ⊱
Out today from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social !
circumferencemag.com/double-vision/
⊱ From ONE, NONE, AND A HUNDRED GRAND by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Sean Wilsey ⊱
Out today from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social !
circumferencemag.com/double-vision/
Double Vision
An excerpt from <em>One, None, and a Hundred Grand</em> by Luigi Pirandello, translated from Italian by Sean Wilsey
circumferencemag.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"I know you’re still bewildered, irritated, mortified by your disgraceful behavior towards your old friend..."
⊱ From ONE, NONE, AND A HUNDRED GRAND by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Sean Wilsey ⊱
Out today from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social !
circumferencemag.com/double-vision/
⊱ From ONE, NONE, AND A HUNDRED GRAND by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Sean Wilsey ⊱
Out today from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social !
circumferencemag.com/double-vision/
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October 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Yesterday we published Selma Asotić's debut poetry collection, Say Fire, and Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues. Very different works, but equally arresting.
Check them out: archipelagobooks.org/books/
Check them out: archipelagobooks.org/books/
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Yesterday we published Selma Asotić's debut poetry collection, Say Fire, and Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues. Very different works, but equally arresting.
Check them out: archipelagobooks.org/books/
Check them out: archipelagobooks.org/books/
Last chance for 40% off a stack of your own... use the code FALLFLASHSALE until 11pm tonight.
October 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Last chance for 40% off a stack of your own... use the code FALLFLASHSALE until 11pm tonight.
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For the latest On Our Nightstands, co–editor-in-chief @njdames.bsky.social recommends The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social).
On Our Nightstands: September 2025 - Public Books
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.
www.publicbooks.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
For the latest On Our Nightstands, co–editor-in-chief @njdames.bsky.social recommends The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social).
"Aidan Rooney’s terrific translation from the French conveys the heroine’s profound despair and snarky resilience. Célia is opinionated, vulnerable, mordantly funny . . . For Célia, to post is to be."
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Fiction: Emmelie Prophète’s ‘Cécé’
Plus Claire Adam’s “Love Forms” and Kiran Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.”
www.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Aidan Rooney’s terrific translation from the French conveys the heroine’s profound despair and snarky resilience. Célia is opinionated, vulnerable, mordantly funny . . . For Célia, to post is to be."
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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sale time! take 40% off our backlist with the code FALLFLASHSALE when you shop now through October 1st at archipelagobooks.org! Happy National Translation Month (aka every month to us)!
Archipelago Books - Contemporary & Classic World Literature
Brooklyn-based not-for-profit publisher dedicated to promoting cross-cultural exchange through international literature in translation since 2003.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
sale time! take 40% off our backlist with the code FALLFLASHSALE when you shop now through October 1st at archipelagobooks.org! Happy National Translation Month (aka every month to us)!
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A Haitian novel from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social about survival by any means: Cece by Emmelie Prophete (translated by Aidan Rooney):
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Cécé
Emmelie Prophète is a Haitian writer who has published six novels, one of which (Le Testament des solitudes, translated as Blue by Tina Kover) has already appeared in English. Whereas Blue was her …
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September 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A Haitian novel from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social about survival by any means: Cece by Emmelie Prophete (translated by Aidan Rooney):
1streading.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/c...
1streading.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/c...
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“Someday, / someone will stand before you, and you’ll / realize / time is just a trick by which the sun renews / its vow to the flowers.”
—Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
—Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“Someday, / someone will stand before you, and you’ll / realize / time is just a trick by which the sun renews / its vow to the flowers.”
—Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
—Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
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"In many ways, Cécé reflects, the Cité is a microcosm of the world, with its brutal power structures, ruthlessness, and breakdown of the law.” Benoit Landon reviews CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. @aidanrooney.bsky.social , @archipelagobooks.bsky.social ): wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"In many ways, Cécé reflects, the Cité is a microcosm of the world, with its brutal power structures, ruthlessness, and breakdown of the law.” Benoit Landon reviews CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. @aidanrooney.bsky.social , @archipelagobooks.bsky.social ): wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
We're having a party! Tonight at Cafe Gitane in Brooklyn, with lots of wine and some glorious platters of South Indian fare.
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Tickets also available at the door.
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Tickets also available at the door.
September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We're having a party! Tonight at Cafe Gitane in Brooklyn, with lots of wine and some glorious platters of South Indian fare.
secure.givelively.org/event/archip...
Tickets also available at the door.
secure.givelively.org/event/archip...
Tickets also available at the door.
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“The herons with their silver throats /
The star that drives its pulse into the gravel
Around the icy stillness of the pool.”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published in April with @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
The star that drives its pulse into the gravel
Around the icy stillness of the pool.”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published in April with @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
The Night is Far Spent, by Christian Lehnert
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September 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“The herons with their silver throats /
The star that drives its pulse into the gravel
Around the icy stillness of the pool.”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published in April with @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
The star that drives its pulse into the gravel
Around the icy stillness of the pool.”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published in April with @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.