A mesmerizing & perspective-altering book. Wong’s hypnotic prose challenges us to look differently at ocean life & our relationship with the many quieter species we often take for granted. A love letter to the ocean & an absolute marvel of a book. –Tom Lathan 🙏 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Kou Machida is a punk rocker—his discography includes 10 albums. He published a volume of poetry in 1992 and a novel in 1996. He won the 2000 Akutagawa Prize for Rip It Up. Machida's writing has been compared to rakugo story-telling and to the work of early 20th century self-destructive I-novelists.

So much gratitude to Orion Magazine for recommending Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl alongside such monumental books (including lovely Scottish bestsellers by Ian McEwan and Val McDermid)! orionmagazine.org/article/10-n... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Thank you so very much @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for giving a home to "Helena in the Sheep's Pasture" by DULSE, my word-dance band with Lee Deigaard. It's a tremendous honor! cincinnatireview.com/micros/helena-…

You need (at least) eight arms to hold this savvy & astute collection of essays: it considers topics normally reserved for science with artfulness & biased heart, & it looks at the very human act of writing as a flawed biological feat. –Elena Passarello 🙏🐙 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 17Feb!

Huge thanks to THE MILLIONS for including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in the Most Anticipated Great Winter 2026 Book Preview! Yay! 🙏🌊🐙 themillions.com/2026/01/the-... Pub day is 17Feb @graywolfpress.bsky.social 💙

Asymptote has some amazing suggestions for TBR piles around the world. I wrote about Chi Zijian’s marvelous novel of Evenki reindeer herders, The Last Quarter of the Moon, translated from Chinese by Bruce Humes @milkweededitions.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/01...

We grieve with our community.

The chutzpah and pathos and sparkle of Mandy-Suzanne Wong's language. Such imaginative creatures deserve such an imaginative writer, so full of feeling and fellow-feeling. I loved this curveball of a book! --Amy Leach Gratitude for this blurb! @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Thanks so much for the shout-out, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ! Wow! 🤩🙏🏾 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Support Graywolf Press with a tax-deductible donation! In a moment of increasing pressure towards uniformity, a donation of any size supports the publishing of new, innovative, and too-often overlooked voices. Become part of the wolf pack today: graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/donate/index...

They’re here!! Pub day is 17 Feb 2026! Cover and interior art by Kathryn Eddy. Production of gorgeous book-object by @graywolfpress.bsky.social Thank you all so much for all your meticulous work. 💙🐙

new_sinews issue9 is now live ... FEATURING: @zebulonhourse.bsky.social <> Hannah Brooks-Motl + @israelbonilla.bsky.social >< Lisa Hsiao Chen + @brandonshimoda.bsky.social <> Zachary Gary + Gabriel Palacios >< Amelia Moriarty + Zack Darsee <> @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social newnewsinews.com/issue9

Oh and it's boxing day. Lots of snow and discarded packaging. www.graywolfpress.org/books/box @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Many thanks to Steve Barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social l at new_sinews for giving such a perfect home to “fragmen - lamen / tations,” an essay from my forthcoming collection, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (17 Feb 2026 from @graywolfpress.bsky.social). www.newnewsinews.com/tations

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Grateful to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this lovely review! www.publishersweekly.com/9781644453735 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

“The sickness that once detached him from life had now made him greedy for experience… he accumulated several lifetimes worth of adventures” —Trenton B. Olsen on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (& Dying), via @literaryhub.bsky.social 6/6 lithub.com/robert-louis...

For the evening crowd.

Happy pub. day to Karina Pacheco Medrano's THE YEAR OF THE WIND (trans. Mara Faye Lethem), Carlos Manuel Álvarez's FALSE WAR (trans. Natasha Wimmer), and Brandon Kilbourne's NATURAL HISTORY! 🎉🎉🎉

“A passionate paean to life’s wonders.” Thank you so very much, Kirkus, for reading DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL and for this wonderful review, available in its entirety at: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... 💙🌊💙 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

"In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence." 🌊🐃 🐋

For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...

Seven years ago, I came across a strange novel about a woman who tries to raise a orangutan as a human. In 2020, with the help of @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's Appius and Virginia saw print again after almost 90 years—and now her renaissance continues. neglectedbooks.com/?...

#SneakPeek 👀 Karen Tei Yamashita's QUESTIONS 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II—is out April 28, 2026. Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/ques...

Catch @donikakelly.bsky.social on tour this fall for THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! Details: www.graywolfpress.org/events

For Animal Culture Magazine, I wrote about the Jura phase of Kathryn Eddy's new work of artistic animal-advocacy, Doe. (photo by Tracy McDonald) www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated from the Russian by Brian Karetnyk @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...

This week's What'SUP Blog, from the translator of Castigation: "As someone who has taken this book apart and put it together again in the process of translation, my advice is to give up all attempts to fit this tale into any frame you’ve previously encountered." press.syr.edu/excerpt-cast...

For Asymptote's blog, I reviewed CASTIGATION by Sultan Raev, translated from the Kyrgyz by Shelley Fairweather-Vega @syracuseup.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling. Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social. #poem #books #writing

“No matter how uncanny octopuses are, there’s something oddly familiar about them, something that helps us feel connected as we look across clades.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Born #onthisday in 1889, CK Scott Moncrieff, whose epic English translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title is not, however, considered a high point... publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #otd

Following the lives of nine heiresses, @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social peers beneath the demure, empire-waisted image of the Georgian heiress to reveal a murky world of inheritance, fortune-hunting and human exploitation. Available to pre-order now⬇️ Amazon: bit.ly/4lcPIty Waterstones: bit.ly/4efwNfm

🆕 on Lab Games: nine writing exercises from Lucy Ives's forthcoming book "three six five: prompts, acts, divinations," a collection of a year’s worth of these prompts (out from Siglio Press in March 2026, available for preorder now). graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...

For ASYMPTOTE's blog, I reviewed THE INVESTIGATOR by Dragan Velikić, translated from the Serbian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić, published by Istros. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

19 September 2023 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 📦 www.graywolfpress.org/books/box

We're 1 week away from DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. *Please note the keynote with Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura is SOLD OUT.

GRACE PERIOD by the wonderful Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa @twolinespress.bsky.social Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC! mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period

My first reviews for ASYMPTOTE are live on the journal's "What's New in Translation" blog! Reviewing work translated from Kyrgyz, Serbian, and Russian this month, I'm extremely honored to be part of this project. Posts about the books to follow. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...

M Lin's THE MEMORY MUSEUM—an expansive debut story collection exploring the complex lives of women in China and the Chinese diaspora—is out April 21, 2026.⁠ #SneakPeek Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Really excellent article by @chadwpost.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social on reviewing literature in translation -- which it's worth doing even if, like me, you're a monolingual born on a rock in the middle of the ocean. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS—winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Alberto Ríos—is out April 7, 2026.⁠ @poetsorg.bsky.social Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/over...

ARCs!! Much gratitude to the team at @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🌊🪼🦑🐙💙 www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

Happy Women in Translation Month! To celebrate #WITmonth, we’re having a sale to help you stock up on must-read translated titles. Save 25% off all titles in our Literature in Translation Series written and/or translated by women until August 31, 2025. bookhugpress.ca/product-cate...

The Loft Marlen Haushofer translated by Amanda Prantera #witmonth

“You weren’t made for this life” Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata – #KhouryGhata25 starts today! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/y...

August marks Women in Translation month – on the Faber Journal, we’ve brought together a selection of books in translation by, or translated by, women. faber.co.uk/journal/women-in-translation-month-a-reading-list/