I'll tell you something else deeply meaningful to me today: @archipelagobooks.bsky.social is publishing Sevgi Soysal's "Walking." It's the first translation I've sponsored, something I've wanted to do for a long time. When I read Soysal's "Dawn," I knew I wanted to see her other work in print.

Review article in The Polish Review 71.2: @stanleysbill.bsky.social ( @cam.ac.uk ) discusses two different translations of Adam Mickiewicz's "Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania" (1834) from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social & Academic Studies Press scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

The desk behind translations of Jean Giono, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Louis Aragon, Antoine Volodine, Éric Chevillard… Alyson Waters has translated over twenty five books from French, including seven with Archipelago. She and her desk live in Brooklyn, New York.

In today's excellent galley mail a copy of Walking by Sevgi Soysal; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Originally published in 1970 in Turkey Walking is due out in October from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.

Our conversation with Héctor Abad about Aside From My Heart, All Is Well is live now. A warm and generous novel. A marvelous opportunity for us. Just out from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social. @onebrightbook.bsky.social @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @ds228.bsky.social onebrightbook.com/2026/07/15/e...

Episode 46: Aside From My Heart, All Is Well

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca, and most importantly, guest Héctor Abad, as they discuss his book ASIDE FROM MY HEART, ALL IS WELL, translated from the Span…

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A few fall galleys.

“It’s a novel about many different competing narratives and how narratives have power.” New at PB: Lara Norgaard on the experience of translating “People from Oetimu” by Felix Nesi (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social).

“These Cycles Are Repeating Themselves”: Lara Norgaard on Indonesian History and Translating Political Fiction - Public Books

“Even characters with completely benign intentions or mildly selfish intentions end up doing pretty bad things because of the institutional structures around them.”

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Fall 26 / Spring 27 catalogs are in! New translations of Maylis de Kerangal, Christos Ikonomou, Caio Fernando Abreu, Antonio Tabucchi... Give it a browse: archipelagobooks.org/catalog/

Our annual art auction is live! Browse an incredible array of artwork from Renee Gladman, Anne Carson, Cecilia Vicuña, Dike Blair, and many others. Proceeds support our children's book imprint, Elsewhere Editions. Bidding is open today through July 5th. auction.archipelagobooks.org

Mafalda: Book Two, translated by Frank Wynne, is coming on October 20th. "The expansive, bighearted politics of Quino’s strip feel out of step with this terrifying moment, but, then again, that may be precisely why now is the right time to return to its heroine." —Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker

In case you’re wondering about the desk behind translations of Mukasonga, Echenoz, Duras, Flaubert… here is Mark Polizzotti's desk! This fall we'll publish his translations of Echenoz's Jérôme Lindon and Mukasonga's Murmurs From the Hills. Mark lives in New York.

Coffee & Kidlit this morning Little Yu & the Treelings LOST IN PEACH BLOSSOM PARADISE by Xiong Liang tr by Chloe Garcia Roberts from Elsewhere Editions @archipelagobooks.bsky.social #worldkidlit

"To build a solid Rwanda, one must go into the Rwanda of other times, which is why I wrote Murmurs from the Hills. One looks towards that dignity of the past to build anew." We'll publish Scholastique Mukasonga's Murmurs from the Hills November 10th. archipelagobooks.org/book/murmurs...

Murmurs from the Hills: Rwandan Tales - Archipelago Books

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Today's Feature: "Landscape with footprints in ash" by Selma Asotić from Say Fire published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/landsca...

Landscape with footprints in ash

My own hands I fling down the river.

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Today our children's imprint Elsewhere Editions brings out the first of Xiong Liang's new fantasy classic, Little Yu & The Treelings: Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise. "Xiong’s kinetic landscapes crackle with the mythic energy of superabundant spirit forms." —Leonard Marcus, The New York Times

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Our books are 40% off, now through May 24th! Build your spring stack with the code SPRINGDISCOUNTS. archipelagobooks.org

New review copies: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz due in September from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social and Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben with an intro by Esther Kinsky(!!!) coming from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social this summer ( @andotherstories.bsky.social in UK).

We're having the sweetest little gathering to celebrate Xiong Liang's new book this Saturday (May 9th) at Spiral Books in Manhattan. Ideal for ages 6-12, but all are welcome. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Out now: Last Stops of the Night Journey by Milo De Angelis, translated from the Italian by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart. A graceful (and bilingual!) collection that feels particularly lucent, insistent, searching and direct.

Now we plummet toward the original spark now the first-born face takes shape » Five poems from LAST STOPS OF THE NIGHT JOURNEY by Milo De Angelis, tr. by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart « The book comes out April 14 from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social! circumferencemag.com/last-stops-o...

now we plummet toward the original spark

Five poems from Milo De Angelis' <em>Last Stops of the Night Journey</em>, translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli

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Minna Zallman Proctor’s translation of Pavese’s The Leucothea Dialogues has been awarded the @penamerica.bsky.social Translation Prize! pen.org/2026-literar...

Hope to see some engrossed commuters in advance of tonight's event... Translator Alyson Waters will join Tess Lewis at @communitybookstore.bsky.social for a conversation around Antoine Volodine's The Monroe Girls (just out last week). 7pm! www.eventbrite.com/e/translator...

Really happy to be making my @therumpus.net debut with a fascinating book from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social!! Thanks to @jbrookewrites.bsky.social for some really good edits. therumpus.net/2026/03/20/w...

With Both Anxiety & Self-Importance: The Lasting Resonance of "One, None, and a Hundred Grand" - The Rumpus

Contemporary readers can relate to Vitangelo, as social media seems designed to focus on what others think of us.

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Declan O'Driscoll on THE MONROE GIRLS: "The narration is a series of discoveries we share with the bifurcated narrator, Breton, and our perplexity only increases as we stumble towards each disclosure in this slyly humorous and subversively inventive novel." www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Translated fiction: Women in Ukraine; Jewish Guatemalans ready for war; an East German memoir

Works by Yuliia Iliukha, Artem Chapeye, Antoine Volodine, Eduardo Halfon, Julia Franck and Elisa Shua Dusapin

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I thought I’d recommend A Parish Chronicle, by Halldor Laxness. And unlike my recent Laxness favorite, Salk Valka, which was a big bruiser, I thought the little story of an old church disappearing and reappearing might be just the thing. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

In October, we'll publish Walking by Sevgi Soysal, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Helen Mackreath wrote in The White Review that "reading Sevgi Soysal today restores the volatility and violence of female concerns." Pre-order is available now. archipelagobooks.org/book/walking/

Walking - Archipelago Books

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Two raves for the new Halldór Laxness, A Parish Chronicle! "Laxness is one of the great fabulists of modern letters." — Sjón, 4columns 4columns.org/sjon/a-paris...

A Parish Chronicle

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We've a mere four titles in today's publisher preview with Elsewhere Editions of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social, but whatta four it is! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/01/30/e...

Elsewhere Editions Publisher Preview (Spring & Fall 2026)

We've a mere four titles in today's publisher preview but whatta four it is!

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Swing by this Saturday afternoon!