"Hilal is magnificent," The Brooklyn Rail observes of UGLINESS. "Cultural commentary intermixes with poetry, visual art, and personal and political musings as Hilal moves through time, space, and medium to locate ugliness in every nook she can." brooklynrail.org/2025/07/art_bo…

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER The New York Times "Haunting, powerful...loaded with tragic irony...this provocatively labyrinthine novel dissects the consciousness of an amnesiac veteran of World War I who has spent four years in a Belgian asylum." nytimes.com/2025/07/31/boo…

Join author Maya Arad and novelist CathleenSchine for a discussion of Arad's new novel HAPPY NEW YEARS on Wednesday, August 6, Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica, 6 p.m. California time, 9 p.m. EDT. Can't make it in person? Watch the livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=zEnHS-…

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer Anjet Daanje (translated by David McKay) explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail for #WITMonth via New Vessel Press expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-re…

This #WITMonth Maya Arad has a new book...so I read two of hers, translated by Jessica Cohen via New Vessel Press to celebrate: HAPPY NEW YEARS; and THE HEBREW TEACHER: Three Novellas. expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/maya-a…

"HAPPY NEW YEARS is a gen­uine tour de force; thrum­ming with haunt­ing imme­di­a­cy . . . end­less­ly inven­tive . . . a tri­umph of the epis­to­lary form and a pro­found­ly inci­sive ren­der­ing of gen­der pol­i­tics past and present"—Jewish Book Council jewishbookcouncil.org/book/happy-new…

Join author Maya Arad and novelist Cathleen Schine for a discussion of Arad's nwe book HAPPY NEW YEARS at Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica, TODAY, 6 p.m. California time, 9 p.m. EDT. Can’t be there in person? Click here to watch the livestream youtube.com/watch?v=zEnHS-…

SLEEPLESS NIGHT is Dutch litterateuse Margriet deMoor's meditation on grief...it never really ends...so what do you do with it? New Vessel Press brings us this #WITMonth gem of a novella. expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/sleepl…

New Vessel Press's #witmonth enticement to flatten your wallet today is a careful personal inquiry into that weird addiction, Hate (with a capital-H).

wp.me/pauSsa-4lo Teaching Communications - my #bookreview for Happy New Years by Maya Arad, T-Jessica Cohen, on my #bookblog. Thanks New Vessel Press for the ARC via Edelweiss. #2025NewReleaseChallenge #witmonth #womenintranslation #20booksofsummer2025 #histficreadingchallenge

PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT by Agur Schiff & translated by Jessica Cohen via New Vessel Press is proof that humor is hard, but better when it's hard-edged. #WITMonth expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/profes…

A Fictional Inquiry New Vessel Press remedies a lack observed earlier in TheModernNovel: “that Lo stadio di Wimbledon ... has never been translated into English is a sad commentary on the state of the novel in the English language.” themodernnovel.org/europe/w-europ…

A kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro, THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel is gritty, unpredictable, and percussive. Translated by National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato. newvesselpress.com/books/theres-n…

HAPPY NEW YEARS (New Vessel Press) is on our #WITMonth list! Maya Arad’s epistolary novel (translated by Jessica Cohen) explores its protagonist’s “relationships, marriage, divorce, single motherhood, financial struggles, and professional ups and downs.” newvesselpress.com/books/happy-ne…