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Our back to school sale is live in the ND shop!✏️📚
Stock up on every book you need for one last laze in the summer sun. The sale ends at midnight on August 24.
We're excited to share that Tricycle: The Buddhist Review has published an excerpt of COLD MOUNTAIN ZEN. Read it now on the Tricycle website!
@tricyclemagtricycle.org/article/hanshan…
“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.” Read Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp by Kathryn Scanlan, out this week on our website. buff.ly/chpKl6z
Hello Portland! This Tuesday, Powell's Books is hosting a special panel discussion about our forthcoming FIVE, a collection of novellas by César Aira. Featuring Jeff VanderMeer, Cari Luna, and Kimberly King Parsons!
@Powellspowells.com/events/five-9780…
Fun fact! Bob Odenkirk is a fan of Solvej Balle.
Her series ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is mentioned in this interview: piped.video/u50vuOwtTSA?si=QI47…
TUNE IN! Solvej Balle discusses her series ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME on CBC's Bookends with Mattea Roach
Podcast link: link.mgln.ai/RyEfbx
CBC Books web feature: cbc.ca/books/bookends/solvej…
Reserve a spot to see our deputy fiction editor, Cressida Leyshon, speak with Keith Ridgway about his new novel, "Dooneen," at Rizzoli Bookstore, Thursday, June 18. eventbrite.com/e/dooneen-by-…
Check out this new interview of Giada Scodellaro by Colette Estelle for Public Seminar, where they discuss the inspirations for RUINS, CHILD!
publicseminar.org/2026/06/wr…
ALT “Unidentified Woman” | Unknown artist / Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture / Public Domain
🎉🎉Congratulations to Charlotte Mandell! Winner of the 2026 Translation Prize for Fiction for her translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS. frenchamerican.org/2026-tran…
“Rather than glamorizing the West or sentimentalizing the East, Qian is highly attuned to the delusions and misunderstandings that impede cross-cultural understanding.”—Andrew Chan writes about Qian Zhongshu’s 1947 novel “Fortress Besieged” @NewDirections4columns.org/chan-andrew/for…
“What he writes both is his life and isn’t…”
Read an excerpt from Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING (@NewDirections), translated by Robin Myers, winner of the 2025 @nationalbook Award in Translated Literature:
latinamericanliteraturetoday…
I wrote about the reissue of José Emilio Pacheco’s poetry by @NewDirections ! Pictured here in a delightful translation by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston poetryfoundation.org/article…