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a non-profit press devoted to contemporary and classic international literature
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October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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 !
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⊱ From ONE, NONE, AND A HUNDRED GRAND by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Sean Wilsey ⊱
Out today from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social !
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Double Vision
An excerpt from <em>One, None, and a Hundred Grand</em> by Luigi Pirandello, translated from Italian by Sean Wilsey
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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.
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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."
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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.”
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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."
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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):
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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.
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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.
Are you in New York City with a kid or 2? Come by The New York Public Library's Chatham Square branch in Chinatown today for a storytime and collage activity with the artist Xiong Liang. We'll publish Xiong's marvelous TAKE A WALK WITH THE WIND at the end of the month. 3pm sharp, 33 East Broadway.
September 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Are you in New York City with a kid or 2? Come by The New York Public Library's Chatham Square branch in Chinatown today for a storytime and collage activity with the artist Xiong Liang. We'll publish Xiong's marvelous TAKE A WALK WITH THE WIND at the end of the month. 3pm sharp, 33 East Broadway.
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Two new book reviews at On the Seawall! The first is on Issa Quincy's Absence (@twodollarradio.bsky.social), while the second digs into Gerbrand Bakker's The Hairdresser's Son (
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...
September 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Two new book reviews at On the Seawall! The first is on Issa Quincy's Absence (@twodollarradio.bsky.social), while the second digs into Gerbrand Bakker's The Hairdresser's Son (
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...
NYC & Boston friends: Emmelie Prophète will be traveling from Port-au-Prince for the English release of her book, Cécé!
She'll be at Brooklyn's Flatbush Library on September 23rd
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and Brookline Booksmith on September 24th!
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She'll be at Brooklyn's Flatbush Library on September 23rd
www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/emm...
and Brookline Booksmith on September 24th!
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Emmelie Prophète and Aidan Rooney with Enzo Silon Surin
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September 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
NYC & Boston friends: Emmelie Prophète will be traveling from Port-au-Prince for the English release of her book, Cécé!
She'll be at Brooklyn's Flatbush Library on September 23rd
www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/emm...
and Brookline Booksmith on September 24th!
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
She'll be at Brooklyn's Flatbush Library on September 23rd
www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/emm...
and Brookline Booksmith on September 24th!
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
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“A path becomes clear / though it still leads to nothing /
Where shadow waits for light to give it form /
Where the word falls silent / ringing false within the void /”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in April.
Where shadow waits for light to give it form /
Where the word falls silent / ringing false within the void /”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in April.
The Night is Far Spent, by Christian Lehnert
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August 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“A path becomes clear / though it still leads to nothing /
Where shadow waits for light to give it form /
Where the word falls silent / ringing false within the void /”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in April.
Where shadow waits for light to give it form /
Where the word falls silent / ringing false within the void /”
From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in April.
Rabih Alameddine on our latest Bakker!
"Fucking brilliant . . . The subtlety with which the reader comes to see Simon’s loneliness and desperation is magical (and depressing!). His condition is mine. It’s yours. It’s human."
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"Fucking brilliant . . . The subtlety with which the reader comes to see Simon’s loneliness and desperation is magical (and depressing!). His condition is mine. It’s yours. It’s human."
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Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up
I’ve always read my way through depressions. When my world sucks, I shut the drapes, hide under the cover, and read. And I will read everything: novels, classics, epic fantasy, romance, spy novels,…
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September 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Rabih Alameddine on our latest Bakker!
"Fucking brilliant . . . The subtlety with which the reader comes to see Simon’s loneliness and desperation is magical (and depressing!). His condition is mine. It’s yours. It’s human."
lithub.com/six-very-dep...
"Fucking brilliant . . . The subtlety with which the reader comes to see Simon’s loneliness and desperation is magical (and depressing!). His condition is mine. It’s yours. It’s human."
lithub.com/six-very-dep...
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This week's podcast was such fun to record. Discussing all things Mafalda with her translator @terribleman.com and Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin.
🎧https://pod.fo/e/319548
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#booksky
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Shakespeare and Company: Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne
In this episode Adam speaks with translator Frank Wynne and Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin about the first-ever English edition of Mafalda, the beloved Argentine comic strip by Quino (Archipe...
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August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This week's podcast was such fun to record. Discussing all things Mafalda with her translator @terribleman.com and Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin.
🎧https://pod.fo/e/319548
#booksky
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social
🎧https://pod.fo/e/319548
#booksky
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social
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For @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #11 The Brush (2024) by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Columbian poet. A striking narrative long poem, documenting a rural atrocity through different POV: witnesses, investigators, victims & nature itself. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #11 The Brush (2024) by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Columbian poet. A striking narrative long poem, documenting a rural atrocity through different POV: witnesses, investigators, victims & nature itself. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
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Mafalda again @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Translating Mafalda
Podcast Episode · Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia · 05/08/2025 · 1h 15m
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August 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Mafalda again @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
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For the first time, Argentina’s iconic comic strip character Mafalda is available in English. Book 1 is out, published by
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
Translator @terribleman.com joins #LatAmFocus to talk about Mafalda's timeless reflections on global issues and more: www.as-coa.org/mafalda
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
Translator @terribleman.com joins #LatAmFocus to talk about Mafalda's timeless reflections on global issues and more: www.as-coa.org/mafalda
July 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For the first time, Argentina’s iconic comic strip character Mafalda is available in English. Book 1 is out, published by
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
Translator @terribleman.com joins #LatAmFocus to talk about Mafalda's timeless reflections on global issues and more: www.as-coa.org/mafalda
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
Translator @terribleman.com joins #LatAmFocus to talk about Mafalda's timeless reflections on global issues and more: www.as-coa.org/mafalda
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More stellar news: you can now read two poems from Selma Asotić's collection SAY FIRE (self-translated by the author) forthcoming from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in September—over @thedialmag.bsky.social! www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
Poems by Selma Asotić — The Dial
“Aubade with a 104° fever” and “No one writes home”
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July 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
More stellar news: you can now read two poems from Selma Asotić's collection SAY FIRE (self-translated by the author) forthcoming from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in September—over @thedialmag.bsky.social! www.thedial.world/articles/lit...