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...

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

Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...

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...

Swing by this Saturday afternoon!

Emmelie Prophète's Cécé, translated by Aidan Rooney, is an LA Times best book of 2025. "Cécé can be read as a portrait of contemporary Haiti, a parable about influencer culture or a distressing study of exploitation . . . Prophète’s vision is piercing." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Today’s Featured Poem: "Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" by Christian Lehnert, translated by Richard Sieburth from wickerwork published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/thyme-s...

Tomorrow at BAM we're celebrating the English release of Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues with a 35mm screening of Straub and Huillet's final feature, These Encounters of Theirs (2005). Thank you @criterion.bsky.social for the lovely mention: www.criterion.com/current/post...

You can now listen to a beautiful conversation between Selma Asotić (we published her debut, Say Fire, this September) and Abby Walthausen in A Lovely Wallpaper. Listen on Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/10SC...

PREPOSITION reviews SAY FIRE (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social, 2025) by @Selma Asotić. "...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..." www.prepositionmag.com/asoti%C4%87-...

Sale time! Enjoy 40% off when you shop Archipelago and Elsewhere titles until December 8th. With each book you purchase, we'll donate a book to a library or prison program on your behalf. Code: "BUYONEGIVEONE." archipelagobooks.org

A great day for book mail from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social!

Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...

Monday night in Brooklyn! Join us!! @archipelagobooks.bsky.social archestrat.us/products/mon...

Today we publish this masterpiece of Italian letters. A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch. —Sam Lipsyte archipelagobooks.org/book/one-non...

"I know you’re still bewildered, irritated, mortified by your disgraceful behavior towards your old friend..." ⊱ From ONE, NONE, AND A HUNDRED GRAND by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Sean Wilsey ⊱ Out today from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social ! circumferencemag.com/double-vision/

New arrivals from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

Yesterday we published Selma Asotić's debut poetry collection, Say Fire, and Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues. Very different works, but equally arresting. Check them out: archipelagobooks.org/books/

Last chance for 40% off a stack of your own... use the code FALLFLASHSALE until 11pm tonight.

For the latest On Our Nightstands, co–editor-in-chief @njdames.bsky.social recommends The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social).

"Aidan Rooney’s terrific translation from the French conveys the heroine’s profound despair and snarky resilience. Célia is opinionated, vulnerable, mordantly funny . . . For Célia, to post is to be." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

sale time! take 40% off our backlist with the code FALLFLASHSALE when you shop now through October 1st at archipelagobooks.org! Happy National Translation Month (aka every month to us)!

A Haitian novel from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social about survival by any means: Cece by Emmelie Prophete (translated by Aidan Rooney): 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/c...

“Someday, / someone will stand before you, and you’ll / realize / time is just a trick by which the sun renews / its vow to the flowers.” —Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

"In many ways, Cécé reflects, the Cité is a microcosm of the world, with its brutal power structures, ruthlessness, and breakdown of the law.” Benoit Landon reviews CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. @aidanrooney.bsky.social , @archipelagobooks.bsky.social ): wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

We're having a party! Tonight at Cafe Gitane in Brooklyn, with lots of wine and some glorious platters of South Indian fare. secure.givelively.org/event/archip... Tickets also available at the door.

“The herons with their silver throats / The star that drives its pulse into the gravel Around the icy stillness of the pool.” From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published in April with @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.

Are you in New York City with a kid or 2? Come by The New York Public Library's Chatham Square branch in Chinatown today for a storytime and collage activity with the artist Xiong Liang. We'll publish Xiong's marvelous TAKE A WALK WITH THE WIND at the end of the month. 3pm sharp, 33 East Broadway.

Two new book reviews at On the Seawall! The first is on Issa Quincy's Absence (@twodollarradio.bsky.social), while the second digs into Gerbrand Bakker's The Hairdresser's Son ( @archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...

NYC & Boston friends: Emmelie Prophète will be traveling from Port-au-Prince for the English release of her book, Cécé! She'll be at Brooklyn's Flatbush Library on September 23rd www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/emm... and Brookline Booksmith on September 24th! brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...

“A path becomes clear / though it still leads to nothing / Where shadow waits for light to give it form / Where the word falls silent / ringing false within the void /” From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in April.

Rabih Alameddine on our latest Bakker! "Fucking brilliant . . . The subtlety with which the reader comes to see Simon’s loneliness and desperation is magical (and depressing!). His condition is mine. It’s yours. It’s human." lithub.com/six-very-dep...

This week's podcast was such fun to record. Discussing all things Mafalda with her translator @terribleman.com and Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin. 🎧https://pod.fo/e/319548 #booksky @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

For @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #11 The Brush (2024) by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Columbian poet. A striking narrative long poem, documenting a rural atrocity through different POV: witnesses, investigators, victims & nature itself. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Mafalda again @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

For the first time, Argentina’s iconic comic strip character Mafalda is available in English. Book 1 is out, published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social. Translator @terribleman.com joins #LatAmFocus to talk about Mafalda's timeless reflections on global issues and more: www.as-coa.org/mafalda

Great readings + cold beer in Unnameable Books' garden... come through!