new books and one vintage! I had to get the Dino Buzzati when saw it on Instagram. Plus releases from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bksky.social and @deepvellum.bsky.social 📚✨

My contributor copy has arrived! Extreme excitement on opening my book post this morning! With work by Ian Critchley, Pippa Goldschmidt, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, Simon Okotie, C. D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me et al. Thank you @saltpublishing.com & @nicholasroyle.bsky.social

some upcoming books in English translation

start of autumn reading 🍂📚

recent book mail, I was happy to find the two in the second picture 📚🔥

Vagabond https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20024

spider web season

💀

love the titles list in vintage books 📚

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles, a perfect novel 📚

from Twenty Prose Poems by Charles Baudelaire, tr. Michael Hamburger

resolve into nothingness retreat into silence ripened into love From Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (1919) I love leafing through this book. It's like my personal I Ching.

exciting book mail from the UK small press @strangerspress.bsky.social, their new set of chapbooks KANATA, translations from Japanese. Strangers Press catalog is worth checking out, link in reply 📚✨

new book purchases, the concluding book in Yoko Tawada’s trilogy, out 9/23 from New Directions. I plan to read the trilogy soon along with the James Salter which I have seen high praise for and wanted to read for ages. 📚✨happy day after birthday to me, new books!

Read an excerpt of Ariana Harwicz's Unfit (out October 7th) in @nplusonemag.com

two recent arcs, the new Olivia Laing looks so good 📚

from TERROR COUNTER by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

from Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From by Sawako Nakayasu

On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature-- WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

#NYRBWomen25 First American edition of THE STONE DOOR. www.abebooks.com/first-editio...

A new piece from Kate Briggs with translated excerpts of Bassette’s writing about ‘the Poetic Novel’ (& Barthes makes an appearance)!! #AContinuation25 (cc: @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social)

I had a much needed girl’s cabin weekend with great views, food, conversation, and laughs with some of the best people I know and hope to do it again soon.

more excellent book mail from Revolving Books, these are all books that were new to me. I am on the lookout for the Proust box set translated by Terence Kilmartin.📚

'Trafalgar' by Angélica Gorodischer (trs. Amalia Gladhart), my 1st book read for #SciFISeptember, might be better labeled picaresque than SF but it does feature an intergalactic (so he says!) travelling salesman and some of the scenarios he confronts raise interesting anthropological issues. (1/2)

“Bessette’s Lili is Crying poses as a vast and intimately rendered image, the landscape always lush, here stormy and charged with resentment, there tranquil. Like a painting, the novel is more situation, less story.” www.full-stop.net/2025/08/01/r...

I've no idea what Leonora Carrington was getting at here in The Stone Door, but it sure does evoke an arm of the sinister paranoia powering contemporary America. Ungodly in its bleakness: "Perhaps hate as well as love could reveal secrets.” #NYRBWomen25

Don't miss today's conversation with Rickey Laurentiis about Death of the First Idea, 10 years in the making, a book somehow archaic & futuristic, oracular & confessional, mythic & lyric, taking us from Ancient Greece to New Orleans to Palestine Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/rick...

upcoming releases I found online 📚

I pressed Place Hold so fast 📚

Thank you @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Etsy shop for these green Viragos! I can not decide which I want to read first. 📚✨

Still a few hours to go before the start of #SpinsterSeptember. But I’m going to go ahead and get started. The Odd Women by George Gissing. @unnamedpress.bsky.social

Books read in August, highlights were The Case of Cem, the Taubes, and Night Journey, magical books for WIT month. Personal narrative in comic form was also prevalent this month, Pittsburgh was a favorite and would recommend the others as well. 📚✨

A Top Ten from Kate Zambreno! www.artforum.com/lists/kate-z...

Just read my first Rebecca West- Return of the Soldier- and I thought it was fantastic! So heartbreaking (there were four words at the end that were just 👌💔). Any other West fans here? Recommendations if I read another one?

“Mariana loved words. Words were her only means of getting hold of things[…]objects were turned away from her until she named them[…]they came to her like animals. Sometimes she fed them. Sometimes they offered themselves to her as food. Sometimes they sat on her heart & devoured her.” #NYRBWomen25

“To me, it’s the space between languages that’s most important, more than the languages themselves. … to fall into the poetic ravine between them.” (p27)

The new season of The Critic and her Publics podcast is on translation and the first episode is a conversation on translating a sentence from Proust! #AContinuation25 @joiedevivre9.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It has a cover! March 17, 2026! @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social #NYRBWomen26 www.nyrb.com/products/cra...

#NYRBWomen25 LAMENT FOR JULIA wraps up in a couple days & then we begin THE STONE DOOR by Leonora Carrington on September 1!!!! I’m so excited to read this one! ✨

books by women in translation I recommend 📚✨

I am in awe and disturbed by Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes, the spirit and narrative I. The stories are just as stunning as is the last paragraph of the book. 📚✨

upcoming releases I found online including Japanese fiction in English translations.

I can vouch for online shop Revolving Books with this amazing book mail, the book Billy was a nice freebie! I found the papers folded up in the Woolf paperback. Definitely worth checking out the website.

The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva, tr. Angela Rodel is rich historical novel of a prince in exile during 15th century Ottoman Empire. Written as testimonies from those close to Cem and published in 1967 in Bulgaria, it feels modern and an absorbing book. Highly recommend 📚✨

📚

CBC Books have shared their Fall 2025 Canadian Fiction preview and we're thrilled to see Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo and A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News by Cary Fagan included in it. www.cbc.ca/books/fictio...

New on the blog today, I've written about A HOUSE AND ITS HEAD by Ivy Compton-Burnett. A savage, transgressive tale exposing the fault lines & depravity inherent in a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family in the late 19th century. #BookSky 💙📚 #NYRBWomen25 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/a...

coming next March www.nyrb.com/products/cre...

great book mail from Bookstore Bunny on Etsy, I do not have this Calvino and I try to get vintage Kodansha paperbacks when I see them. Also new book of poetry from @DeepVellum, TERROR COUNTER by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi. 📚✨

some pages from the comic Pittsburgh by Frank Santoro