The latest round of @nymag.com's Best Books of 2025 includes SAD TIGER! Thanks to @islemcelroy.bsky.social for their thoughtful writeup.

Sometimes good things happen, but not without the hard work of people fighting for a better world. To celebrate this hard-won victory, and all the people who've worked so diligently to make it happen, here are some stories of hope and resistance that feel right for the current moment, all 30% off.

The Rolling Library's next queer book club pick is THE CALL-OUT by @catfitzpatrick.net! another title that i read & loved so i'm now making everyone else read it, too. you can buy it from Astoria Bookshop or yr local indie (if money is tight, DM & we'll gift you a copy). meeting 12/7 in astoria!

newly posted: Hugh Blanton : A Romp Through Poetry's History: On Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse / @sevenstories.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/hugh...

it’s an extremely spooky read 🎃

Elon Musk: American Oligarch. Out now from all good book shops. @sevenstories.bsky.social

@jmalcolmgarcia.bsky.social documents life, death, and poverty in the neighborhood of Alabama Village: “The idea that someone would shoot him made no sense. Everyone liked him.”

"He wandered around the Village like nothing else mattered, stopping at the church to shoot baskets on a court behind it. When guys got together for a game, TJ would join them without asking, without a word of any kind, and no one challenged him. He rarely moved at all." lithub.com/life-and-dea...

This month, @sevenstories.bsky.social released Krisztina Tóth’s dystopian novel EYE OF THE MONKEY in @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social 's translation. In this excerpt, a psychiatrist has an uncomfortable encounter with his wife, from whom he has recently separated: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

So excited that Too Great a Sky @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social) is on this amazing list for this wonderful prize!!!

A year ago today, we lost Gary Indiana. He was quick and brilliant, biting and tender. Gary was determined to not let anyone get too comfortable in their assumptions about him, about literature, about writing as a whole. We miss him dearly.

Publishers Hedi El Kholti and Dan Simon remember their friend Gary Indiana on the anniversary of his death: “I took Horse Crazy home with me and read it over the weekend, and I was amazed. It felt like a major personal discovery.”

TONIGHT: head to @bklynlibrary.bsky.social to hear about the novel László Krasznahorkai called “magnificent”, Krisztina Tóth’s EYE OF THE MONKEY

“The dilemma was where the monkey’s soul [...] resided, if it resided anywhere at all.” Read an excerpt of Krisztina Tóth’s new novel EYE OF THE MONKEY ( @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @sevenstories.bsky.social

Today on @nytimes.com, @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social jumps down EYE OF THE MONKEY's dystopian rabbit holes

"I feel no sense of caution or restraint, nor do I have any doubts, finally. Something has come full circle. I commit the same errors as in the past but they are no longer errors. There is only beauty, passion, desire." -Annie Ernaux, "Getting Lost" (tr. A. Strayer)

I’m fully on board with any Mulzet project.

EYE OF THE MONKEY is out today wherever good books are sold!

electricliterature.com/8-books-that... i wrote this booklist of queer vampire recs for anyone who feels like reading more queer vamps 🧛‍♀️

It’s official! ORLANDA “arrives like a bucket of ice water to the face — it’s a clarifying shock to the system…a roaring jaunt that boldly leaps over the charged lines of gender.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

"Only ONE Nobel Laureate blurb?" You say incredulously--dare we say arrogantly? But not to worry. We've got two.

Whatever's on László Krasznahorkai's #tbr should probably be on your TBR! Preorder this book by our contributor Krisztina Tóth (tr. by another contributor, Ottilie Mulzet): bookshop.org/a/169/978164...

Waiting for your Krasznahorkai that just became backordered? Dive into some Laszlo-recommended Hungarian lit in the meantime.

omg this is so nice! THANK U @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social // CARDS ON THE TABLE THOUGH The Call-Out is in tetrameter but it is *not* in iambics it is in sprung rhythm // my position is that this is not cheating but a choice // wild speed varitation ftw

We love @catfitzpatrick.net, we love @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social, Hive Mind loves Cat, and we we all love rhyme schemes.

"[SAD TIGER is] the best book I've read for a very long time. . . . It's by a writer called Neige Sinno and it completely changes all the rules of writing." – Rachel Cusk, speaking to the Stockholm Libraries PLAY

A rave review for Krisztina Tóth's EYE OF THE MONKEY (tr. Ottilie Mulzet) in today's @financialtimes.com: "What we are left with is not only a powerful impression of the alienating effects of authoritarianism, but a cautionary tale about self-deception." Read here: www.ft.com/content/f64b...

"Yet in taking their own experiences of trauma seriously, by directing their writing and reading towards understanding and articulating it, Hood and Sinno expand the horizons of what trauma literature can be. Their books mark the arrival of two major literary talents."

“It is the return of the sun, Of my exiled ones And for her sake, and his I swear I shall not compromise And to the last pulse in my veins I shall resist, Resist—and resist.” From Sameeh Al-Qassem’s “Enemy of the Sun”. A handwritten copy of the poem found was found in George Jackson’s cell.

SAD TIGER IS A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST! Congratulations to Neige and Natasha, and thank you to everyone who’s supported this thorny and thoughtful book. Tune into the awards ceremony with us on November 19th!

I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!

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“You see I have this broken nose I got when el tico Lizano hit me with a brick because I said it was obviously a foul” From “I Wasn’t Always This Ugly” by Roque Dalton, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. buff.ly/nYl90IS

Working on a new book, “The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government.” Drawing from my experience as a prosecutor, the book offers ideas to take back our democracy and a vision for the future. Available June 9, 2026. Here’s the cover. What do you think?

we're always here to help you Radicalize 'Em Young

Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpman’s ORLANDA, a brilliant leap of a body swap novel. A sexy, smart, and beguiling companion to her hit I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN. Pick up a copy on September 30!

With the success of I Who Have Never Known Men, more of Jacqueline Harpman's works are becoming available, like her novel Orlanda. 1 part Virginia Woolf's Orlando (obv), 1 part the psychology of Fight Club (..less obv), 1 part Harpman's brilliant insights. Out on 9/30

The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

ALABAMA VILLAGE by @jmalcolmgarcia.bsky.social comes out 10/14/25 from @sevenstories.bsky.social @clairekelley.bsky.social #nonfiction #narrative #neighborhood #community #reality #BookSky

ORLANDA by jacqueline harpman (translated by @ros-schwartz.bsky.social) releases 10/7/25 from @sevenstories.bsky.social @clairekelley.bsky.social #homage #VirginiaWoolf #identity #contemporary #paris #IWhoHaveNeverKnownMen #BookSky

TERMS OF SERVITUDE documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States support the Israeli settler-colonial project through censorship. @omarzahzah.bsky.social's groundbreaking new book is now available from @projectcensored.bsky.social and Seven Stories Press.

"Canary Mission is not just intended to intimidate or harass. It states its ultimate goal explicitly: to eliminate job prospects for supporters of Palestinian freedom and liberation." Omar Zahzah looks at the experience of online blacklisting in an excerpt from TERMS OF SERVITUDE in today's LitHub

Omar Zahzah looks at digital settler colonialism: “Even if blacklisting is a well-worn strategy of Zionist persecution, Canary Mission constitutes an escalation.”

"What Ernaux is often writing about in her books is what Virginia Woolf describes as 'moments of being,' rare instances in one’s life when one is fully alive." Sarah McEachern reviews the new translation of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-other-one-is-me/

"Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in literature for a body of work so resistant to labels, it fell to the French writer to coin one herself: "autosociobiography,". It's an ironically long, unwieldy name for books that have been noted for their deft grace and, frankly, their tendency to be quite short."

“the two girls merge with each other and then separate into different places from where they started. What’s left is the chilling experience of childhood destabilization.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

THE OTHER GIRL, our beloved Annie Ernaux’s profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, is out today from Seven Stories Press and available wherever fine books are sold.