Here’s a Barbie I can get behind! Masa Kolanovic’s barbed tale of growing up during the Yugoslav wars of the 90’s uses Barbie to play out the gendered cacophony of the nationalist purity wars. All symbolic objects are rebranded accordingly with a biting humor that limns Ugresic.

Preorder Ena Selimović's poignantly playful translation of Maša Kolanović's Underground Barbie today, and look forward to staying up all night reading it in January! bookshop.org/a/99139/978953…

"Kolanović’s unsettling English-language debut . . . Complementing the narrative are childlike line-drawings that are often disturbing in their naivete . . . the juxtaposition of child’s play and real-world violence is chilling. This is worth a look." publishersweekly.com/9789533515120

Born in Harlem on this day 100 years ago… let’s watch pianist Bud Powell wandering the streets and docks of Copenhagen in Jørgen Leth’s short experimental film Stopforbud from 1963. Watch in full: youtube.com/watch?v=DtBAHT…

We've got two more titles coming out this year, but we are SO excited for 2025, we're launching a subscription. To celebrate, we're offering a BrooklynBookFestival special: 7 books for $80! This is a one-day, in-person special. Intrigued? Come by table 221 this Sunday.

My Name Is Sita is a groundbreaking Surinamese novel. Read an excerpt WordsWithoutBorders. If you like what you read and happen to be BrooklynBookFestival this weekend, visit us at table 221 and buy a copy. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Today is International Translation Day - so here are a few of my recent favorite reads in translation! Translators do such extraordinary and vital work, and we should absolutely be celebrating them, today and every day. Please drop your recs! 👇🏼

For us, every day is #InternationalTranslationDay. And after a great, albeit damp, BrooklynBookFestival, where people were talking about The Case of Cem, and seeing it included in some readers' favorite translations of the year, here is Angela Rodel's Translator's Note. lithub.com/what-vera-muta…

Really love seeing the word-of-mouth momentum picking up for Vera Mutafchieva’s Case of Cem, because what a book that is!!!!

Attention publishing peeps: Bob Dylan is playing Frankfurt October 16-18. Will be be staying at the Hof? Will he visit the Goethe House? Wander around FrankfurterBuchmesse wearing his Nobel medal? Be on the lookout . . .

There really is nothing like connecting face-to-face with readers at places like BrooklynBookFestival. And since we had such a good time last weekend, we're extending our 2025 subscription special until the end of October: 7 books for 80$! Tell everyone you know! sandorfpassage.org/product/sandor…

"Immersive technologies are apt to become a dominant art form in our culture. What we're trying to do here is ensure that they develop as places for literature." That's Robert Coover on "Cave Writing" at Brown back in 2003. wired.com/2003/02/writin…

Much will be written about Lore Segal in the coming days, but I doubt any of it will be as intimately touching as Catherine Lacey’s remembrance. open.substack.com/pub/catherinel…

We're so excited about next year's list, we're running a special on 2025 subscriptions until the end of October: 7 books for $80! Come November, that goes up to $100. If you love books, indie publishing, and killer deals, you know what to do. sandorfpassage.org/product/sandor…

Monika Herceg's Closed Season won the 2024 Gdańsk Literary Award. Read Herceg's acceptance speech at Versopolis: "Our individual and collective history depends on whether and how we tell our stories. This is an enormous power." versopolis.com/news/news/1573…

Moon over Frankfurt.

If the German edition of the new Sally Rooney is indicative of anything, it’s the popularity of “fabseite” (“color pages,” according to a bookstore clerk) in the German market; lots of monochromatic treatments, but just as many multicolor designs, mostly on trade paperbacks.

The books are looking good CLMP stand here FrankfurterBuchmesse.

“We will never give up publishing, it’s what we do and who we are!” Our cofounder, Ivan Sršen, talked shop with Publishers Weekly for the FrankfurterBuchmesse Show Daily.

No one is doing what Sandorf Passage is doing for literature. Those of us from the Balkans know our blood is empire-hybrid and ‘purity’ is the revanchist myth. Balkan lit has so much to offer the present.