There's No Point in Dying x Francisco Maciel, Bruna Dantas Lobato (tr.), out from @newvesselpress.bsky.social Jan 13. "A kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro."

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is among the @wwborders.bsky.social Most Anticipated Books of 2026. Translated from the Russian by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova (tr. @lizoksbooks.bsky.social , @newvesselpress.bsky.social) is Education Fellow Emma Deshpande’s pick: bookshop.org/p/books/my-d...

Thank you so much @bergstrombookstore.bsky.social for your skeet and kind words about My Dreadful Body, wr. Egana Djabbarova, tr. me, pub. @newvesselpress.bsky.social! I feel very fortunate to have translated Egana's book for NVP. It's not long but it brims with life & ideas to contemplate.

Just finished the forthcoming @newvesselpress.bsky.social title My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social Mark your calendars, you will want to add this book to your TBR list. A story of the body as the intersection of cultural expectations, family, and disease.

"Artist and theorist Moshtari Hilal dismantles the cultural construct of 'ugliness,' examining how beauty norms are weaponized against marginalized identities...A provocative and timely meditation on both her own self-image and the larger beauty industry." @beautymatter.bsky.social

THE WORDS THAT REMAIN by STÊNIO GARDEL and translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato via @newvesselpress.bsky.social was my 2023 six-stars-of-five read. It's a read that truly healed something in me, and writing about it was very cathartic. expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-...

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal @nytimes.com among "The Visuals That Defined Style This Year . . . For the young Ms. Hilal, trying to live up to Northern European beauty standards meant engaging in near-constant combat with herself." newvesselpress.com/books/ugliness

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal @nytimes.com "The Visuals That Defined Style This Year." "For the young Ms. Hilal, trying to live up to Northern European beauty standards meant engaging in near-constant combat with herself." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/s...

“i found an excellent six-stars-of-five read for 2025 in THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by ANJET DAANJE, and translated from Flemish by David McKay via the estimable tastemakers at New Vessel Press.”

Art lovers on your holiday gift list? The shop @frickcollection.bsky.social suggests A FEW COLLECTORS by Pierre Le-Tan, packed with tales about often obsessive eccentrics and illustrated with dazzling drawings by the author, and THE EYE by Renaissance art historian Philippe Costamagna.

Here's a brief thread of the fiction that has stayed with me most in 2025, a year in which I reviewed exactly 100 books, and was more grateful than ever for the chance to do so. First, these are screenshots of the three brilliant novels that made the WSJ Best Books list. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay, has been named to the 2026 @penamerica.bsky.social Translation Prize Longlist. pen.org/announcing-t...

Thrilled to see Elisabeth Lauffer's translation of UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER @nytimes.com 100 Notable Books of 2025. "Haunting, powerful . . . This provocatively labyrinthine novel dissects the consciousness of an amnesiac veteran of World War I" in a marriage that he realizes "'is built on quicksand, one false step and they'll drown together.'"

Anjet Daanje tells the Substack newsletter Auraist about her stylistic choices for THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, a 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature finalist. "I hate shortening texts, it feels like maiming someone you love," she says. auraist.substack.com/p/the-best-w...

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal @fullstopmag.bsky.social "Hilal takes what feels most intimate about the body and reveals its entanglement with the most public and political forces. Amultidisciplinary artistand curator, she mixes poetry and essays with reams of images." www.full-stop.net/2025/12/03/r...

The Wall Street Journal names THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje to its 10 Best Books of 2025!! "The incantatory prose, translated by David McKay, makes ordinary aspects of marital life feel newly discovered." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, written in the footsteps of a man of letters, @financialtimes.com: "Daniele Del Giudice’s first novel, finally available in English, creates a magical tension between an active life and the contemplative act of writing." Translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER on @literaryhub.bsky.social 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025: "Absorbing, suspenseful, closely-observed...beautiful and detailed, perfectly balanced...Character insights creep up on you and ring absolutely true...definitely worth the ride."

CONGRATULATIONS to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for my 2025 6*-of-five read, THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, being a <i>New York Times</i> 100 Notable Books of 2025 selection! expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

A FICTIONAL INQUIRY reviewed in @financialtimes.com : "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social ” newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...

I finished Anjet Daanje’s The Remembered Soldier and, in short, I loved it. In long…I wrote an excessively long (continued in comments long) post about it over on IG. #booksky @newvesselpress.bsky.social @pgcbooks.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DRfBJwmkd0...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER named to 100 Notable Books of 2025 @nytimes.com. The novel by Anjet Daanje and translated by David McKay—Finalist for National Book Award—also named @publisherswkly.bsky.social @chipublib.bsky.social to their lists of the Best Books of 2025. newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...

Ready for Chanukah on Dec. 14? This rich medley of writings features evocations of Chanukah by Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B. Yehoshua, and Joanna Rakoff. newvesselpress.com/books/one-fo...

THE HEBREW TEACHER by Maya Arad, translated by @jesscohen.bsky.social, has been longlisted for the Freudenheim Translation Prize of the @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk. jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/awards-prize...

The pacing and tone are noirish in this metaphysical detective story, set in Trieste, about the space between writing and life. ✍️ Dennis Duncan

A FICTIONAL INQUIRY praised @thespectator1828.bsky.social as "a memorable metaphysical detective story" in "elegant translation"by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social about literary legend Bobi Bazlen who "brought out the first Italian editions of Freud, Kafka and Musil,but produced no writing of his own."

Currently reading and loving: The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (trans. David McKay). Love the way Daanje blends and layers dreams and memories and the “present” (of the book) in a flowing present tense narration. #booksky @newvesselpress.bsky.social

Celebrating THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje as a finalist for the National Book Award with translator David McKay. Congratulations to the winner, We Are Green and Trembling.

Honoring THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER author Anjet Daanje and translator David McKay as finalists for the @nationalbook.bsky.social Award in NY ahead of the awards ceremony on Wednesday. In Daanje's stead, novelist @josephoneill.bsky.social read an excerpt of her work. newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...

Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration: mjhnyc.org/.../2025-new...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER chosen as the "best-written" book among finalists for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature, according to Auraist, a Substack newsletter focused on the prose quality of works shortlisted for literary prizes. auraist.substack.com/p/national-b...

The New York Times recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER among "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now." @nytimes.com suggests the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, for the reader who says, "I'd like an affecting, surprising family drama." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...

From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)

Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration: mjhnyc.org/.../2025-new...

A VERY BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS is featured in the Rizzoli Bookstore 2025 Holiday Catalogue. This gorgeous hardcover anthology and other volumes from the New Vessel Press Very Christmas series are available at a bookstore near you. www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/very...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail via @newvesselpress.bsky.social #Booksky FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE! Winner announced 19 November 2025. expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

My thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for the chance to write about Anne Milano Appel’s English-language translation of Daniele Del Giudice’s 1983 debut, A Fictional Inquiry. It’s the first time English-speakers have had a chance to read the late Italian writer’s exploration of the writing life.

"Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time." @coryoldweiler.bsky.social in On the Seawall about A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice. www.ronslate.com/on-a-fiction...

Maya Arad discusses her award-winning THE HEBREW TEACHER on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's Van Leer Institute podcast. Host Renee Garfinkel calls Arad "a singular literary voice whose works have redefined the contours of modern Hebrew literature." Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-hebrew-t...

"Daanje unfurls a staggering modernist work of love, guilt, and the slippery nature of identity. It takes place in the years after WWI, when a woman recognizes an amnesiac veteran as her long-lost husband. The story grows increasingly complex." newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...

"Would I allow myself to be exceptionally ugly?" asks Moshtari Hilal in her intimate and political book UGLINESS, excerpted @shuddhashar.bsky.social. Girlhood author @melissafebos.bsky.social calls UGLINESS, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, "wondrous and important." shuddhashar.com/cartography-...

atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social

Read an excerpt from A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated from the Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social, @literaryhub.bsky.social. This metaphysical detective story tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste to retrace a fabled literary figure. lithub.com/a-fictional-...

“Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social.

Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice talks about the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, the legendary literary figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's most celebrated publishing houses, @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social vimeo.com/506207913

Today is publication day for A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. This haunting novel, championed by Italo Calvino, is a modern Italian cult classic appearing in English for the first time. newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...