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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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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Yesterday we published Selma Asotić's debut poetry collection, Say Fire, and Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues. Very different works, but equally arresting.

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Last chance for 40% off a stack of your own... use the code FALLFLASHSALE until 11pm tonight.

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.

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.

Great readings + cold beer in Unnameable Books' garden... come through!

You can now read an extract from Walter Siti's Paradise Overload in @grantamag.bsky.social! We'll publish Brian Robert Moore's translation of this Italian classic in 2026.

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Today marks the beginning of our 2025 auction for Elsewhere Editions! Bidding is open now and will close on Wednesday, June 25th, at 9pm ET.

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Em Kettner’s “The Comedian”
Glazed porcelain tile in oil-sealed cherry frame
13x6x1 in

She is joyful, skeptical, sardonic. She has a passion for equality, and her ragtag crew of friends. Since the mid-60s, readers have been thinking alongside Mafalda, and finally, thanks to Frank Wynne’s translation, her world has been brought to English. Order your copy wherever books are sold!

Our Elsewhere Editions art auction is back again! This year, we’ve gathered a collection of artworks meant for both children and adults that share a spirit of play and wonder. Visit our site for a sneak peek of some of the works we’ll be auctioning.

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Quino and Mafalda, 1984. 12 days til Volume I hits shelves.

Read Lily Meyer's perceptive piece on Mafalda, the six-year-old whose precocious knowledge "skewers grown-up cowardice and complacency." Live in Issue 28 of
@thedialmag.bsky.social!

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May 8th, in lovely Montréal! Join us for a conversation around Sylvain Trudel's The Harmattan Winds, between the book's translator, Donald Winkler, and Mathieu Bélisle.

Yesterday we published Hanne Ørstavik's stay with me, translated by Martin Aitken!

"In [stay with me], a writer deals with her anger, grief, and desire by starting a new manuscript, which blends with the character's own narration into a metafictional masterpiece." ––David Varno, Publishers Weekly

Spring sale time! Use the coupon code SPRING40 at archipealgobooks.org for 40% off select (read: most!) backlist titles. Thank you for supporting our mission by buying books directly! 🌷

Cover reveal (art by Monnin Pascale) for a remarkable Haitian novel we'll publish on September 23rd: Emmelie Prophète's Cécé, in a vivid translation from French by Aidan Rooney.

Latest addition to our Board of Directors.

The wait is almost over... On June 3rd, Mafalda will be making her grand debut. With her rebellious wit and urgent pleas for peace, Quino's Mafalda will vivify English-speaking readers—stay tuned!