Polly Barton presents The Place of Shells in conversation with Liza St. James, TONIGHT McNally Jackson seaport, 6:30pm. See you there! RSVP: mcnallyjackson.com/event/polly-ba…

It's here!!! My translation of The Deserters by Mathias Énard, just out from New Directions . So happy to have my name on the cover! 😍

TOMORROW The Center for Fiction 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-cent…

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. mcnallyjackson.com/event/small-pr…

It’s pub day at last for WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING, by the ever-extraordinary Cabezón Cámara, available from New Directions in the US and Harvill Secker in the UK 🌱

Out this week — EXOPHONY, Yoko Tawada’s first essay collection in English, about the possibilities opened up by cross-hybridizing languages (by one of its most exciting practitioners). Deftly translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. ndbooks.com/book/exophony

Listen to Gabriela Cabezón Camàra on the Vulgar History podcast with Ann Foster. The two discuss Antonio de Erauso, whose extraordinary life during the Spanish Conquest provides the basis for We Are Green and Trembling, Camàra's forthcoming novel. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZW…

Out next month: Marlen Haushofer’s KILLING STELLA, translated by Shaun Whiteside.

Today’s Featured Poem: “Salute to Walt Whitman (excerpt)” by Fernando Pessoa, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari from The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos published by New Directions Read here: poems.com/poem/salute-to…

Join us July 1st at Books Are Magic Smith St for the launch of Yoko Tawada’s EXOPHONY: VOYAGES OUTSIDE THE MOTHER TONGUE with translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Susan Bernofsky. RSVP here: booksaremagic.net/events/2921420…

PRETTY COOL -- world's first excerpt of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, VOL. III by Solvej Balle in THE DRIFT ISSUE 15!!!!!!! thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167-1… The Drift New Directions

"The poetry of Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022) 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, or is it the other way around?" - The New Yorker link.newyorker.com/view/5be9fdfd3…

Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in The Drift: thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167-1…

Join us tomorrow at Books Are Magic Smith St for the launch of Yoko Tawada’s EXOPHONY with translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Susan Bernofsky. Two Tawada translators on Tawada’s radical experiments with language… not to be missed. RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/in-store-lis…

TONIGHT is Tawada night in Brooklyn

Been anticipating Lili is Crying all year. Hoping to have more Hélène Bessette brought to us by Kate Briggs’ expert pen. This is to be read in a summer heat.

The 3 finalists for the 2025 Cabell First Novelist Award are: Fire Exit by Morgan Talty Tin House It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken New Directions Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang Dutton Books Congratulations to all 3 authors! VCU College of Humanities and Sciences VCU English Dept. VCULibraries