“I understand the nature of war—writing about war, living through war—and why war is an indelible, horrible experience, yet absolutely central in human history.” On the history and future of authoritarianism, war, and literature in Europe.

So proud to find SAD TIGER on the @bookcritics.bsky.social Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize longlist for 2025! Learn more about the prize and view the full longlist here: bookcritics.org/awards

I didn't even know there is a Che Guevara-library:

“The revolution is not a standardizer of collective will, of collective initiative. It is a liberator of an individual’s capacity. What the revolution does do is to orient that capacity. Our task is to orient the creative talent of all the medical professionals toward the tasks of social medicine.”

Excerpt: Che Guevara on Revolutionary Medicine and the Social Role of Doctors open.substack.com/pub/sevensto...

loser behavior. check out this book about the guys from the original photo, who were actual tradesmen who knew skills besides con artistry

Out now: The Nerve's Best Books of 2025. Feat: @elizabethalker.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @jennashworth.bsky.social

I had the great privilege of spending time with “Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle” by @omarzahzah.bsky.social - this is essential reading for us all. themarkaz.org/terms-of-ser...

Thrilled to see SAD TIGER by Neige Sinno (tr. Natasha Lehrer) on the @burleyfisher.bsky.social Books of the Year list! burleyfisherbooks.com/blogs/news/b...

Seven Stories is a GREAT source for holiday shopping! So many good and right on books. Take advantage of this sale

UP TO 40% OFF SITEWIDE: www.sevenstories.com

from Shout Out by Roberto Saviano (coming in 2026 from @sevenstories.bsky.social): Comedian Lenny Bruce “said that you should never deny people the chance to say 'fuck you,' because it’s denying them the chance to say 'fuck politics' to a government they don’t like...

Honored @sevenstories.bsky.social put two of my books in this extremely niche category in their holiday gift guide! 20% off!

FLASH SALE: 30% OFF SITEWIDE (40% off for newsletter subscribers) From award-winning literary translations to iconic works of political theory and practice, here’s everything you need for all your shockingly hard to please loved ones (and free shipping on orders $25+!)

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Glenn Kurtz's Men at Work: www.sevenstories.com/books/4770-m... & Olga Tokarczuk's The Lost Soul, trans Antonia Lloyd-Jones: www.sevenstories.com/books/4275-t... (both @sevenstories.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #booklovers

End of Year Sale: Take 20% off sitewide, including books by Annie Ernaux, Octavia E. Butler, Che Guevara, Howard Zinn, Kurt Vonnegut, Gary Indiana, Nelson Algren, and more. sevenstories.com

Thank you so much to everyone who supported Neige Sinno and Natasha Lehrer’s SAD TIGER on its incredible @nationalbookfoundation run! Sharing this powerful narrative with American audiences has been a joy, and we’re so proud of Neige’s “quiet revolution”.

A Triangle Square Book Club subscription is the perfect holiday gift for young readers. And this year we’re offering a free Triangle Square tote with every subscription, adorned with beautiful woodcut artwork by J. Borges from José Saramago’s picture book The Lizard sevenstories.com/blogs/397-su...

“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.” ― Kurt Vonnegut #botd For more about Vonnegut's environmentalism, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Vonnegut scholar Christina Jarvis. #books #booksky @sevenstories.bsky.social

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Brooke Palmieri's Bargain Witch (@semiotexte.bsky.social): dopaminebooks.org/books/bargai... & Enemy of the Sun eds. Naseer Aruri & Edmund Ghareeb (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.sevenstories.com/books/4703-e... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

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.