Irena Rey is an Indie Next pick—again!! Only six paperbacks a month make it onto this fantastic list compiled by independent booksellers. And since independent booksellers are the smartest people I know about contemporary fiction, this is the highest prize I could possibly get!

The beautiful paperback of Irena Rey is officially out now!!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-ex…

Close friends who have a five-month-old baby just told us THIS is his favorite book Boris Dralyuk Jenny Croft—! While I get him another Elsewhere Editions title, I'll just leave this here... nyrb.com/products/who-w…

Any day translating Andrei Kurkov is a good day, but when he inserts a versified drunken toast into a novel, I know I’m in for a special treat. Enjoy this birthday poem for a villainous chiropodist, commissioned by his henchman at a Kyivan bathhouse.

Nimrod may well be the best it has ever been under the editorial guidance of Boris Dralyuk

I have never before subtweeted and will surely regret doing so, but a post from several weeks ago continues to pain me. Someone had floated the idea of a YA novel from the prospective of what they supposed were the teenaged Red Army soldiers who had executed the Romanovs. 1/5

Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Duke’s PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS (Paul Dry Books). In prose and in verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrant’s melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CA—the dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920).

The incomparable Ted Gioia has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exile…

Me encantó charlar con la muy genia y divertida Laura Fernández (EL PAÍS) sobre mi novela La extinción de Irena Rey (Editorial Anagrama) y su magnífica traducción de Regina López Muñoz (entre otras cosas)! elpais.com/cultura/2025-0…

The LA Times photo below was taken at the Hollywood Bowl in 1938. The fourth man from the left is Alexander Voloshin, whose poem SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD will appear from Paul Dry Books in April 2026. Here I give some context to the shot: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/no-…

"Todo es una excusa para reflexionar sobre la identidad, la creación artística y los límites de la autoría. También sobre la labor del traductor y el peso que tiene en la lectura final." Marta Marne reseña 'La extinción de Irena Rey' | El Periódico ow.ly/4qBQ50WssJx

"Haciéndose cargo de su vasta experiencia como traductora, Croft construye un artefacto narrativo en el que el mismo mecanismo de la traducción se coloca en el centro." Zenda recomienda 'La extinción de Irena Rey', de Jennifer Croft: zendalibros.com/zenda-recomien…

A few pictures I took once at Pryvoz Market, which Russia tried and failed to destroy last night. croftwork.net/notes/the-russ…

The remarkable Boris Dralyuk from The University of Tulsa in today's Asymptote journal! asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-i…

Any chance anyone can help me read this postcard? Is it Pitman shorthand? Kathryn Baird?

Happy #InternationalCatDay to all who celebrate!

ALERT ALERT ISABELLA ROSSELLINI IS ON TIKTOK AND THIS WAS HER FIRST POST

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative looks forward to the kickoff event of its 2025-26 Translation Seminar Series. On September 18, "Creative Crossovers: Translators as Fiction Writers" will feature Jennifer Croft and Lily Meyer. Please join us in Old North 205, 5-6:30pm.

It always amazes me how "historical arguments" that would be absurd if applied to western Europe are often treated as serious and valid when made by Russia about Ukraine👇

Extraordinary. The outcome of Alaska and Trump's meeting with Putin