simone de beauvoir, america day by day (quoted in joanna pocock’s greyhound)

“we never were; so we remain” (Paul Celan)

“at dawn you can already know if the day will be good or bad.” david diop, at night all blood is black (tr. anna moschovakis) « c’est dès l’aurore que l’on peut deviner si la journée sera bonne ou mauvaise. »

mary ruefle, erasure notebooks (aug 12, 2025)

renee gladman’s ‘tower of books’

kate briggs translating a sentence of roland barthes (from ‘this little art’)

my translation of linda lê’s essays on wrath in the latest michigan quarterly review

“for early man, the glittering of water signaled life … whenever, after trekking through deserts, forests, and fetid swamps, a group was able to discern a body of water glittering white in the distance, they would have felt lacerated by happiness.” han kang, the white book (tr. deborah smith)

Empyrean Series nos. 41–45 were published earlier this season. The series’s mandate is to enlarge the body of literature known to readers & scholars by pub’ing works from various literary periods that are little-known & out of print. Explore the catalogue here: sublunaryeditions.com/empyrean