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BEHOLD! Fall ’25, featuring: Olga Ravn, Yoko Tawada, Alexis Wright, Susan Howe, Julio Cortázar, Jenny Erpenbeck, Caren Beilin, Ariana Harwicz, Solvej Balle, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzx...
Read an excerpt of Ariana Harwicz's Unfit (out October 7th) in @nplusonemag.com
n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social
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. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
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Issue 51
Content filed under the Issue 51 taxonomy.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Read an excerpt of Ariana Harwicz's Unfit (out October 7th) in @nplusonemag.com
On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
September 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
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Dallas, it’s time!
Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/dallas
Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/dallas
August 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Dallas, it’s time!
Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/dallas
Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/dallas
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Looking for a good read for Women in Translation Month? Try Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s “We Are Green and Trembling,” translated by Robin Myers. It’s a winner. #booksky @ndbooks.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Looking for a good read for Women in Translation Month? Try Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s “We Are Green and Trembling,” translated by Robin Myers. It’s a winner. #booksky @ndbooks.bsky.social
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Loved her novel The Wall. This short book from 1958, available for the first time in English, punches way above its weight. So damn good. @ndbooks.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Loved her novel The Wall. This short book from 1958, available for the first time in English, punches way above its weight. So damn good. @ndbooks.bsky.social
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Geoffrey O’Brien on the intense, exploratory Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz who has, “the visual force of a silent movie or a rock formation painted by Cézanne.”
Read here→ books.substack.com/p/review-geo...
Geoffrey O’Brien on the intense, exploratory Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz who has, “the visual force of a silent movie or a rock formation painted by Cézanne.”
Read here→ books.substack.com/p/review-geo...
Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on C. F. Ramuz
I came upon this book‘s 1944 edition on my parents’ bookshelves when I was around eleven, attracted irresistibly by its doom-laden prologue …
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August 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New on Book Post 📖
Geoffrey O’Brien on the intense, exploratory Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz who has, “the visual force of a silent movie or a rock formation painted by Cézanne.”
Read here→ books.substack.com/p/review-geo...
Geoffrey O’Brien on the intense, exploratory Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz who has, “the visual force of a silent movie or a rock formation painted by Cézanne.”
Read here→ books.substack.com/p/review-geo...
Read @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social’s marvelous interview of translator Hisham Matar and photographer Diana Matar, who worked together on Naguib Mahfouz’s dream book I FOUND MYSELF, in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/25/f...
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/25/f...
Finding Ourselves in Naguib Mahfouz’s Last Dreams: An Interview with Hisham and Diana Matar - Chicago Review of Books
When awarding the acclaimed Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006] the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the Swedish Academy noted how “through works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic,...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Read @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social’s marvelous interview of translator Hisham Matar and photographer Diana Matar, who worked together on Naguib Mahfouz’s dream book I FOUND MYSELF, in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/25/f...
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/25/f...
Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social:
www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...
www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...
Day #1144, #1167, #1403
Fiction
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June 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social:
www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...
www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...
"The poetry of Bernadette Mayer is as whimsical and difficult as raising children, one of her main subjects... Mayer’s avant-garde, fragmentary language echoes the cacophony of a full house"
Read The @newyorker.com's review of The Golden Book of Words, out now!
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Read The @newyorker.com's review of The Golden Book of Words, out now!
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June 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"The poetry of Bernadette Mayer is as whimsical and difficult as raising children, one of her main subjects... Mayer’s avant-garde, fragmentary language echoes the cacophony of a full house"
Read The @newyorker.com's review of The Golden Book of Words, out now!
link.newyorker.com/view/5be9fdf...
Read The @newyorker.com's review of The Golden Book of Words, out now!
link.newyorker.com/view/5be9fdf...
"Voetmann ends his trilogy of historical lives on a high note with this hallucinatory chronicle of a Benedictine monk’s deathbed visions. A Boschian vision quest—this masterpiece of morbidity is not to be missed." —Publishers Weekly
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May 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Voetmann ends his trilogy of historical lives on a high note with this hallucinatory chronicle of a Benedictine monk’s deathbed visions. A Boschian vision quest—this masterpiece of morbidity is not to be missed." —Publishers Weekly
www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8112-2...
www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8112-2...
Join Elizabeth Willis next Friday, May 23rd, at McNally Jackson Seaport while she reads alongside other brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene.
6:30pm ET. RSVP required. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/small-...
6:30pm ET. RSVP required. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/small-...
May 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Join Elizabeth Willis next Friday, May 23rd, at McNally Jackson Seaport while she reads alongside other brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene.
6:30pm ET. RSVP required. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/small-...
6:30pm ET. RSVP required. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/small-...
TOMORROW @Center4Fiction at 7 pm, join us for the release of THE JAMAICA KOLLECTION by Marcia Douglas. There will be special musical guest Keisha Martin, Jamaican snacks, and free ND totes with a surprise gift. 🎁 Can't wait to see you there... RSVP below
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May 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
TOMORROW @Center4Fiction at 7 pm, join us for the release of THE JAMAICA KOLLECTION by Marcia Douglas. There will be special musical guest Keisha Martin, Jamaican snacks, and free ND totes with a surprise gift. 🎁 Can't wait to see you there... RSVP below
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
Join us Wednesday at The Center for Fiction for The JAMAICA KOLLECTION OF THE SHANTE DREAM ARKIVE book launch and party! Marcia Douglas will be in conversation with Ken Chen, with special musical guest Keisha Martin.
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May 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Join us Wednesday at The Center for Fiction for The JAMAICA KOLLECTION OF THE SHANTE DREAM ARKIVE book launch and party! Marcia Douglas will be in conversation with Ken Chen, with special musical guest Keisha Martin.
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
Polly Barton presents The Place of Shells in conversation with Liza St. James, TONIGHT @mcnallyjackson seaport, 6:30pm. See you there!
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RSVP:
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April 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Polly Barton presents The Place of Shells in conversation with Liza St. James, TONIGHT @mcnallyjackson seaport, 6:30pm. See you there!
RSVP:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
RSVP:
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Tomorrow 4/24: THE PLACE OF SHELLS by Mai Ishizawa NYC Launch 🌀
Translator Polly Barton in conversation with Liza St. James @mcnallyjackson Seaport
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Translator Polly Barton in conversation with Liza St. James @mcnallyjackson Seaport
RSVP via the link:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
www.mcnallyjackson.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Tomorrow 4/24: THE PLACE OF SHELLS by Mai Ishizawa NYC Launch 🌀
Translator Polly Barton in conversation with Liza St. James @mcnallyjackson Seaport
RSVP via the link:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
Translator Polly Barton in conversation with Liza St. James @mcnallyjackson Seaport
RSVP via the link:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
Join us at the Poetry Project tomorrow April 23 at 8pm to celebrate LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD by Essex Hemphill (1957–1995). John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed, and more will be reading. Come at 7:30 to toast to Hemphill before the reading!
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
April 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us at the Poetry Project tomorrow April 23 at 8pm to celebrate LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD by Essex Hemphill (1957–1995). John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed, and more will be reading. Come at 7:30 to toast to Hemphill before the reading!
🥂
RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
🥂
RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
Polly Barton presents THE PLACE OF SHELLS
in conversation with Liza St. James at McNally Jackson Seaport on April 24th, 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there!
RSVP here:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
in conversation with Liza St. James at McNally Jackson Seaport on April 24th, 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there!
RSVP here:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
April 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Polly Barton presents THE PLACE OF SHELLS
in conversation with Liza St. James at McNally Jackson Seaport on April 24th, 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there!
RSVP here:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
in conversation with Liza St. James at McNally Jackson Seaport on April 24th, 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there!
RSVP here:
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-...
A beautiful conversation between Forrest Gander and Jorie Graham in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social—on illness, sediment, and poetry’s inefficiences lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Thickness of Being | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander discuss each other’s recent work.
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April 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A beautiful conversation between Forrest Gander and Jorie Graham in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social—on illness, sediment, and poetry’s inefficiences lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
We are thrilled that A LEOPARD-SKIN HAT and ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME are finalists for the International Booker Prize. Congratulations to Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson, Solvej Balle, and Barbara Haveland! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We are thrilled that A LEOPARD-SKIN HAT and ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME are finalists for the International Booker Prize. Congratulations to Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson, Solvej Balle, and Barbara Haveland! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
See you tonight at Rizzoli Bookstore for a conversation with translator Katrina Dodson and Merve Emre on COVERT JOY, a selection of the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction. There will be books for sale, and a signing!
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Covert Joy by Clarice Lispector tr. by Katrina Dodson with Merve Emre
Katrina Dodson and Merve Emre on Covert Joy, a selection of the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction.
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April 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
See you tonight at Rizzoli Bookstore for a conversation with translator Katrina Dodson and Merve Emre on COVERT JOY, a selection of the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction. There will be books for sale, and a signing!
RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/covert-joy...
RSVP:
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Listen to Forrest Gander discuss Mojave Ghost with
Francesca Rheannon. The two explore the book’s coalescence of ecological awareness and personal loss for @writersvoice.bsky.social.
www.writersvoice.net/2025/04/poet...
Francesca Rheannon. The two explore the book’s coalescence of ecological awareness and personal loss for @writersvoice.bsky.social.
www.writersvoice.net/2025/04/poet...
April 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Listen to Forrest Gander discuss Mojave Ghost with
Francesca Rheannon. The two explore the book’s coalescence of ecological awareness and personal loss for @writersvoice.bsky.social.
www.writersvoice.net/2025/04/poet...
Francesca Rheannon. The two explore the book’s coalescence of ecological awareness and personal loss for @writersvoice.bsky.social.
www.writersvoice.net/2025/04/poet...
Join us at Rizzoli Bookstore this Thursday, April 10, from 6-8pm as Katrina Dodson discusses her translation of Clarice Lispector's Covert Joy with Merve Emre.
RSVP here: www.rizzolibookstore.com/covert-joy
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April 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Join us at Rizzoli Bookstore this Thursday, April 10, from 6-8pm as Katrina Dodson discusses her translation of Clarice Lispector's Covert Joy with Merve Emre.
RSVP here: www.rizzolibookstore.com/covert-joy
RSVP here: www.rizzolibookstore.com/covert-joy
BEHOLD! Fall ’25, featuring: Olga Ravn, Yoko Tawada, Alexis Wright, Susan Howe, Julio Cortázar, Jenny Erpenbeck, Caren Beilin, Ariana Harwicz, Solvej Balle, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzx...
April 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
BEHOLD! Fall ’25, featuring: Olga Ravn, Yoko Tawada, Alexis Wright, Susan Howe, Julio Cortázar, Jenny Erpenbeck, Caren Beilin, Ariana Harwicz, Solvej Balle, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzx...
We are thrilled to announce that Anne Carson’s WRONG NORMA has won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry!
March 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We are thrilled to announce that Anne Carson’s WRONG NORMA has won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry!
"He was a lyric poet to his core, and a political poet who knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, any of which he wielded when needed."
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
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Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
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John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life
Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…
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March 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"He was a lyric poet to his core, and a political poet who knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, any of which he wielded when needed."
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
lithub.com/john-keene-o...
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
lithub.com/john-keene-o...