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WOAH! Winter '27, featuring: Ilse Aichinger, Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Carson, Osamu Dazai, Forrest Gander, Mieko Kanai, László Krasznahorkai, Clarice Lispector, Osdany Morales, Nicanor Parra, and Kathryn Scanlan. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzxcg…
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FORTRESS BESIEGED is out this week! Read the new introduction by Yiyun Li in NYRB. nybooks.com/online/2026/08/2…
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Preview SECURITY QUESTIONS by Osdany Morales with three of its poems, out now in GRANTA!
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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.
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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!
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Take a cooling summer walk with 17th-C poet Bashō, @NewDirections books.substack.com/p/diary-b…
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“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
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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!
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Giada Scodellaro reads "Lateness"—an excerpt from her novel Ruins, Child— on the BRICK podcast (also published in BRICK issue 117).
Links for listening:
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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…
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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
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Tonight Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC: Keith Ridgway & @NYerFiction Deputy Editor Cressida Leyshon!
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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-…
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Check out this new interview of Giada Scodellaro by Colette Estelle for Public Seminar, where they discuss the inspirations for RUINS, CHILD!
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ALT “Unidentified Woman” | Unknown artist / Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture / Public Domain
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🎉🎉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…
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For our spring issue, Granta goes to Scandinavia. Read the issue for free online for the next five days.
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“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” @NewDirections 4columns.org/chan-andrew/for…
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“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:
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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…
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