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/

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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!

You can now read an extract from Walter Siti's Paradise Overload in @grantamag.bsky.social! We'll publish Brian Robert Moore's translation of this Italian classic in 2026. granta.com/my-poor-pare...

Today marks the beginning of our 2025 auction for Elsewhere Editions! Bidding is open now and will close on Wednesday, June 25th, at 9pm ET. auction.archipelagobooks.org Em Kettner’s “The Comedian” Glazed porcelain tile in oil-sealed cherry frame 13x6x1 in

"Even if [Mafalda's] unlikely to help Democrats and Republicans get along, her brand of innocent but opinionated curiosity could show the so-called adults in the room how to do better by future generations." —Benjamin P. Russell, The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

She is joyful, skeptical, sardonic. She has a passion for equality, and her ragtag crew of friends. Since the mid-60s, readers have been thinking alongside Mafalda, and finally, thanks to Frank Wynne’s translation, her world has been brought to English. Order your copy wherever books are sold!

Our Fall 2025 catalog (w/ @dorothyproject.bsky.social, @archipelagobooks.bsky.social & @nottinghilleds.bsky.social) can be viewed from our website. Have a look and tells us what think looks good. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

Our Elsewhere Editions art auction is back again! This year, we’ve gathered a collection of artworks meant for both children and adults that share a spirit of play and wonder. Visit our site for a sneak peek of some of the works we’ll be auctioning. auction.archipelagobooks.org

Quino and Mafalda, 1984. 12 days til Volume I hits shelves.

Read Lily Meyer's perceptive piece on Mafalda, the six-year-old whose precocious knowledge "skewers grown-up cowardice and complacency." Live in Issue 28 of @thedialmag.bsky.social! www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Please join us and @archipelagobooks.bsky.social this Friday at 5:30 PM for the book launch of Christian Lehnert's "Wickerwork" with the translators Richard Sieburth and Rosanna Warren. Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/wickerwork...

May 8th, in lovely Montréal! Join us for a conversation around Sylvain Trudel's The Harmattan Winds, between the book's translator, Donald Winkler, and Mathieu Bélisle.

Yesterday we published Hanne Ørstavik's stay with me, translated by Martin Aitken! "In [stay with me], a writer deals with her anger, grief, and desire by starting a new manuscript, which blends with the character's own narration into a metafictional masterpiece." ––David Varno, Publishers Weekly

Incoming: Lovely dual language collection of German poetry. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Spring sale time! Use the coupon code SPRING40 at archipealgobooks.org for 40% off select (read: most!) backlist titles. Thank you for supporting our mission by buying books directly! 🌷

"We are amused, infuriated, surprised and shocked . . . through to an ending which has to be read at least twice to understand the full implications of its satirical intent." —Declan O'Driscoll on Felix Nesi's People from Oetimu www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

"Me, I am Goodness and Justice, and I want to kill the radish because he’s rich and the peasants are dying of hunger." from Sylvain Trudel's "The Harmattan Winds" (trans. Donald Winkler) @archipelagobooks.bsky.social www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/from...

A perceptive conversation between Marilyn Booth, translator of Elias Khoury’s As Though She Were Sleeping, and Yasmeen Hanoosh, translator of Khoury’s first novel, On the Relations of the Circle (forthcoming from Archipelago), is live in Arablit. arablit.org/2025/03/20/t...

"Uhart's voice can be as pleasingly prosaic as a conversation on the phone with your mother, but she is also canny, wily, funny, and even biting . . . it's easy to enjoy Uhart without theorizing, just relishing her off-kilter way of seeing the world." —Natasha Wimmer www.nybooks.com/articles/202...