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December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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FLASH SALE: 30% OFF SITEWIDE
(40% off for newsletter subscribers)

From award-winning literary translations to iconic works of political theory and practice, here’s everything you need for all your shockingly hard to please loved ones (and free shipping on orders $25+!)
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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End of Year Sale: Take 20% off sitewide, including books by Annie Ernaux, Octavia E. Butler, Che Guevara, Howard Zinn, Kurt Vonnegut, Gary Indiana, Nelson Algren, and more.

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November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Thank you so much to everyone who supported Neige Sinno and Natasha Lehrer’s SAD TIGER on its incredible @nationalbookfoundation run! Sharing this powerful narrative with American audiences has been a joy, and we’re so proud of Neige’s “quiet revolution”.
National Book Award Finalist medal with the woman and tiger from the cover of SAD TIGER in silver foil Natasha Lehrer reading from SAD TIGER at the National Book Awards Reading
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A Triangle Square Book Club subscription is the perfect holiday gift for young readers. And this year we’re offering a free Triangle Square tote with every subscription, adorned with beautiful woodcut artwork by J. Borges from José Saramago’s picture book The Lizard
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November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A year ago today, we lost Gary Indiana. He was quick and brilliant, biting and tender. Gary was determined to not let anyone get too comfortable in their assumptions about him, about literature, about writing as a whole. We miss him dearly.
Gary Indiana, photographed by Hedi El Kholti
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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TONIGHT: head to @bklynlibrary.bsky.social to hear about the novel László Krasznahorkai called “magnificent”, Krisztina Tóth’s EYE OF THE MONKEY
BOOK LAUNCH: EYE OF THE MONKEY KRISTINA TOTH IN CONVERSATION WITH KEN CHEN OCTOBER 21, 2025 @ 7PM BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY 10 GRAND ARMY PLAZA BROOKLYN, NY 11238
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Today on @nytimes.com, @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social jumps down EYE OF THE MONKEY's dystopian rabbit holes
"Remarkably, Toth manages to hold our focus as the story forks in controlled, if mysterious, ways. A book that can be snaking and labyrinthine without sprawling aimlessly is — like an author who can handle elusiveness without opacity or coyness — quite a rare thing."
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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EYE OF THE MONKEY is out today wherever good books are sold!
“Like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!” —Elfriede Jelinek “Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel [Eye of the Monkey] . . . Krisztina Tóth is a magnificent artist; receive her as such.” —László Krasznahorkai
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"Only ONE Nobel Laureate blurb?" You say incredulously--dare we say arrogantly? But not to worry. We've got two.
“Like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!” —Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Waiting for your Krasznahorkai that just became backordered? Dive into some Laszlo-recommended Hungarian lit in the meantime.
“Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel [Eye of the Monkey] . . . Tóth is a magnificent artist; receive her as such.” —László Krasznahorkai, Nobel laureate
October 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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We love @catfitzpatrick.net, we love @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social, Hive Mind loves Cat, and we we all love rhyme schemes.
3) I finally read The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick and had the absolute very best time I've had with a book in a while. The whole novel is written in Onegin stanzas, which is in iambic tetrameter. Wikipedia, handily, has the rhyme scheme: aBaBccDDeFFeGG. For starters, simply being held by this meter and rhyme was like being rocked in the gentlest of cradles. The reliable rhythm was a lullaby for this addled mind. (This is also why I like a lot of older country music, I've come to understand.) And then second: the book is just damn fun. Cat is hilarious, and the book revolves around a group of queer and trans women in Brooklyn. Hijinks, hookups, and social disasters ensue! What a gift to spend time with such perfectly delightful literature. Cat can friggin write. "
October 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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"[SAD TIGER is] the best book I've read for a very long time. . . . It's by a writer called Neige Sinno and it completely changes all the rules of writing." – Rachel Cusk, speaking to the Stockholm Libraries PLAY
October 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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SAD TIGER IS A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST! Congratulations to Neige and Natasha, and thank you to everyone who’s supported this thorny and thoughtful book. Tune into the awards ceremony with us on November 19th!
Graphic announcing SAD TIGER as a National Book Award finalist for translated literature
October 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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we're always here to help you Radicalize 'Em Young
Howard Zinn's A YOUNG PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES Howard Zinn's VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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TERMS OF SERVITUDE documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States support the Israeli settler-colonial project through censorship. @omarzahzah.bsky.social's groundbreaking new book is now available from @projectcensored.bsky.social and Seven Stories Press.
“From social media censorship to the pernicious surveillance of Palestinians and their supporters, Omar Zahzah chronicles the intimate involvement of American Big Tech corporations in Israel’s unrelenting settler-colonial project. Terms of Servitude provides a guide to understanding and resisting digital settler colonialism. It is a timely and urgent read for everyone concerned with the fate of Palestine.” – Michael Kwet, author of Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival
September 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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THE OTHER GIRL, our beloved Annie Ernaux’s profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, is out today from Seven Stories Press and available wherever fine books are sold.
Poetic and raw but never maudlin, this beautiful meditation on a very particular kind of grief will resonate with anyone trying to process a major loss of their own.
September 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Our latest FREE eBOOK, “There Are Words That Have Never Changed: A Sampler of Writing in Translation from Seven Stories Press” features work by:
Annie Ernaux
Che Guevara
Jacqueline Harpman
Abdellah Taïa
Krisztina Tóth
Edmund Ghareeb
Naseer Aruri
José Antonio Emmanuel
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September 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, an internationally recognized Lebanese-American scholar, and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas. ENEMY OF THE SUN is available wherever books are sold.
A GIRL AND A POEM He promised to write me a poem Since then, every morning I say: Mother! I’ll go to the news-stand. My mother does not know that every morning I steal a piece of my brothers’ food And with it buy a newspaper, Hoping to find the promised poem there. It is now two months that I buy papers with food But the poem was never there. Only today he phoned, and when I asked he answered: That he wrote the poem long ago: That the poem was written the moment he promised it And that waiting for the poem, was the poem itself. And now I feel empty! Now I don’t want to go to the news-stand. Mother! Why did he phone this morning, and stop the poem? -RASHED HUSSEIN
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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In the intertwined histories of this book, and in the unyielding political edge of the poems themselves, is a long story of solidarity between oppressed peoples: from Palestine to South Africa to Algeria to Vietnam to the United States.
DEFIANCE You may fasten my chains Deprive me of my books and tobacco You may fill my mouth with earth Poetry will feed my heart, like blood It is salt to the bread And liquid to the eye I will write it with nails, eye sockets and daggers I will recite it in my prison cell— In the bathroom— In the stable— Under the whip— Under the chains— In spite of my handcuffs I have a million nightingales On the branches of my heart Singing the song of liberation. -MAHMOUD DARWEESH
September 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Bearing witness to decades of Zionist occupation, to a diaspora exiled in refugee camps and writers held captive in Israeli jails, the collection offers a means to an end: “as poetry, yes it sings—as bullets on a mission; it calls for change.”
BARBED WIRE The shouts of the vineyard guard awaken me at night And I hear the howling of the north wind in the olive grove repeating, in my ears, the tragedy of my defeated people, my steadfast people, the tragedy of loss. And it is as if a battle rages silently, sadly and insistently, Between me and death. I shall not die as long as there is oil in the lamps of the refugee nights and fire across the border graveyard where old tents stand stand like a sign in the wind pointing to the bloody road of return. -ABDUL WAHAB AL-BAYYATY
September 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance links twelve poets working in a poetics of refusal and of hope.
THE BATS The bats on the window swallow my voice, The bats at my door And the bats behind the papers. In the corners, Follow my steps, and my glances. The bats on the seat, In the street, behind me, On the window pane of the bookstore, on the girls legs. And I look back. The bats are on my neighbor’s window The bats are receivers hidden in a wall The bats are about to commit suicide. I continue on my way towards the daylight. -SAMEEH AL-QASSEM
September 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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In each poem in ENEMY OF THE SUN is a whole life—joy, love, beauty, rage, sorrow, suffering—and in each life is a record of resistance: the traces of a people who refuse to leave their homeland, who time and again alchemize grief into principled struggle.
ON HOPE Do not tell me: I wish to be a baker in Algeria In order to sing with the revolutionaries Do not tell me: I wish to be a shepherd in the Yemen To sing for the uprising of the age Do not tell me: I wish to be a waiter in Havana To sing for the victory of the poor Do not tell me: I wish to be a stone carrier in Aswan To sing for the rocks My friends: The Nile will not pour into the Volga The Congo and Jordan Rivers Will not serve the Euphrates Each river has its own Our land is not barren Each land has its own rebirth Each dawn has a date with revolution. -MAHMOUD DARWEESH
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance links twelve Palestinian poets working in a poetics of refusal and of hope. Available now wherever fine books are sold.
“These are poems of survival and survivors, and they are not only teeming with sorrow and rage, they are also, thankfully, teeming with life.” – Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and There's Always This Year
September 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM