Watch this fascinating discussion between author Egana Djabbarova and New York Times columnist Rhonda Garelick @rhondakg.bsky.social about MY DREADFUL BODY, a book Professor Garelick says "I adore." Find out why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S35e...

Thank you to @literaryhub.bsky.social for selecting my cover Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body for its 11 Best Book Covers of April. And thank you to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for the wonderful project.

One of my fav reads of the month

MY DREADFUL BODY named one of the Best Book Covers of April @literaryhub.bsky.social, which calls the design by Alban Fischer "particularly elegant." Egana Djabbarova's novel concerns a woman of Azerbaijani origin being pushed into an arranged marriage she doesn't want. lithub.com/the-11-best-...

Read an excerpt from MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova in Global Europe. The novel addresses each body part with the scrupulousness of a medical researcher, unveiling a hidden world in which illness unexpectedly facilitates the protagonist's liberation. globaleuropejournal.org/2026/04/my-d...

HOUSE ARREST by Noa Yedlin: A prize-winning, satirical novel that chronicles a scandal enveloping a prominent Jerusalem family and leads to its downfall. Translated by Shira Atik and Evan Fallenberg, co-published with Altneuland Press. ARCs available. newvesselpress.com/books/house-...

Join author Maya Arad for a discussion of her novel HAPPY NEW YEARS at the Philadelphia area's Kaiserman JCC, Wed. April 29 at 7 p.m. This poignant book examines ambition, loneliness, aging, and the tension between personal desire and communal expectation. www.harziontemple.org/events/open-...

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is a Staff Pick @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social. "A meditation on the body, on illness, on patriarchal norms. This is such a fantastic debut. The writing is great...Plus one of my favorite recent covers!" www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781954...

Visit the New Vessel Press booth at today's Sant Jordi Festival on Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, noon to 5 p.m.

A delight to have Egana Djabbarova in the U.S. to present MY DREADFUL BODY, translated @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. Thank you The Harriman Institute at Columbia, U of Pennsylvania, @thenewschool.bsky.social, Amherst College + @rhondakg.bsky.social for hosting. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

Join Russian author Sergei Lebedev and translator Antonina W. Bouis for an online discussion of his novel THE LADY OF THE MINE, Thursday, April 23, 13:00 Eastern time, sponsored by @t2diplomacy.bsky.social Free registration: www.tracktwodiplomacy.org/webinar-series

I have loved, loved My Dreadful Body x Egana Egana Djabbarova, tr. by Lisa C. Hayden. From @newvesselpress.bsky.social 😍

Acclaimed novelist @katiekitamura.bsky.social calls Anna Maria Ortese's NEAPOLITAN CHRONICLES her favorite book by "an underrated author." Speaking @thetimes.com about the book which inspired Elena Ferrante, Kitamura says: "Ortese is a giant of Italian letters." www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Sergei Lebedev has been awarded the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté for his writings aimed at ending impunity for Russian state crimes. It was presented at the former Lyon prison where Nazis incarcerated and tortured French resistance fighters and Jews. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJIz...

Come hear Egana Djabbarova discuss MY DREADFUL BODY with NY Times columnist @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m.—"prose marked by intimacy, restraint, and terror . . . a writer of astounding intelligence and power." Free registration: event.newschool.edu/mydreadfulbody

Welcoming Egana Djabbarova to New York City to celebrate publication of her novel MY DREADFUL BODY. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

Another 5*/5 read from @newvesselpress.bsky.social, this time a novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-d...

Join a discussion of A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, @rizzolibooks.bsky.social. A conversation with Chiara Benetollo, Alessandro Giammei , and Iuri Moscardi, co-sponsored by the Bridge Book Award. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-fictiona...

Egana Djabbarova interviewed @codastory.com about MY DREADFUL BODY, a "powerful account of the pressures on one woman growing up among the strict codes of an Azerbaijani family living in Russia. A sense of surveillance ... defines the narrator’s upbringing." www.codastory.com/surveillance...

Another 5*/5 read from @newvesselpress.bsky.social, this time a novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-d...

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is published today. Come hear this "writer of astounding intelligence and power" discuss her new book with New York Times columnist @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m. @thenewschool.bsky.social. Free registration: event.newschool.edu/mydreadfulbody

We’re celebrating today the arrival of an eagerly anticipated novel by Egana Djabbarova that portrays the life of a young woman from a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. Read an excerpt on Punctured Lines and buy the book from @newvesselpress.bsky.social puncturedlines.com/2026/04/07/t...

Thank you very much to Punctured Lines for running this excerpt from my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body! I'm happy to add that today's our publication day, thanks to @newvesselpress.bsky.social!

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, a "stunning novel" by Anjet Daanje and translated from the Dutch by David McKay, is a Staff Pick @politicsprose.bsky.social bookstore in Washington, DC. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize and a National Book Award Finalist. politics-prose.com/book/9781954...

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal is a Staff Pick @barnesandnoble.com on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Why are we afraid of ugliness? A deep dive into unrealistic beauty standards and their effects on our self-image.” Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ugliness-m...

“According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Read from Egana Djabbarova’s novel My Dreadful Body, translated by Lisa C Hayden.

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova excerpted @literaryhub.bsky.social, translated by Lisa C. Hayden: "According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked . . . because I was unmarried." lithub.com/my-dreadful-...

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal considered @vox.com in light of current fascination with "looksmaxxers." While looksmaxxers undertake extreme measures to alter their appearance, Vox notes Afghan-born author Hilal has no such aim. "Startling and exciting." newvesselpress.com/books/ugline...

An excerpt from THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, in Latin American Literature Today. Maciel’s multiracial characters write poetry and discourse on soccer, insects, samba, and climate change. latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2026/03/ther...

Come hear Russian author Egana Djabbarova discuss her riveting new book MY DREADFUL BODY with New York Times columnist and Hofstra Professor Rhonda Garelick @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m. @thenewschool.bsky.social in NYC. Free registration here: event.newschool.edu/mydreadfulbody

"The first time I read the first paragraph," translator David McKay says of THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje, "I sensed that this is great literature, the work of a master wielding her powers to plumb the depths of the human psyche." @thebookerprizes.com thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

The Remembered Soldier, written by Anjet Daanje and translated by David McKay, is an extraordinary love story about the power of memory and imagination. Find out more about this #InternationalBooker2026 longlisted book: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/ivo9bse08l

"Prepare to be mesmerized by writing the likes of which I have never known. This is a book which I will never forget ... the only true contender for the International Booker Prize 2026." —Dolce Bellezza @bellezzamjs.bsky.social on THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER. dolcebellezza.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

2025 US/Canada Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize (@usrofc.bsky.social) Winner: The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay, published by New Vessel Press (@newvesselpress.bsky.social) #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature #bookprizes

Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS and THE HEBREW TEACHER, + other leading voices in Jewish literature: Allegra Goodman, Rachel Kadish, and Tova Mirvis. Wed, March 18, @miamibookfair.bsky.social @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social at Miami Dade College. RSVP: www.miamibookfair.com/event/storie...

Read this book - it’s amazing! www.full-stop.net/2026/03/09/r...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER allows Flemish writer ANJET DAANJE with translator David McKay to explore the Great War's breakage in intimate detail via @newvesselpress.bsky.social #Booksky WINNER of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada, 2025! expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay, wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize @usrofc.bsky.social ! Prize founder Lori Feathers says: "Small, independent publishers like New Vessel Press demonstrate time and again that art is a passion, not a corporate endeavor."

All the YAY!! The Remembered Soldier is the WINNER of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada, 2025! I love the book & I'm deeply pleased it's getting a prize I really respect. Starts my day happy. @newvesselpress.bsky.social www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news/republi...

Congratulations to Anjet Daanje and David McKay for winning the Republic of Consciousness Prize! If you're interested in learning about the translation process for THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, click here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

MY DREADFUL BODY gets rave review @fullstopmag.bsky.social “Essential feminist, anticolonial reading . . . MY DREADFUL BODY is about power. The power of one nation to colonize another, which is in turn echoed by the power of men to control women . . . " www.full-stop.net/2026/03/09/r...

THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING: "There are episodes that flesh out Brazil’s troubled past...And there are cautions about Brazil’s precarious future," writes @southwestreview.bsky.social, praising translator Bruna Dantas Lobato for "remarkable moments of wordplay." newvesselpress.com/books/theres...

“Maciel’s novel also reads like a scrapbook or family album of a Brazilian city, in this case Rio de Janeiro.” Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel 💥 Out now via @newvesselpress.bsky.social southwestreview.com/scrapbook-of...

Join Moshtari Hilal to discuss UGLINESS with Céline Semaan co-founder of Slow Factory. How do power+beauty determine who's considered “ugly”? TODAY, March 4, 6:30 p.m. Swiss Institute's bookshop do you read me?!, 38 St. Mark's Place in NYC. swissinstitute.net/programs/con...

Now reading The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay. The eighth book on my quest to read the IBP longlist before the shortlist drops. @newvesselpress.bsky.social

More acclaim for THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER: This monumental novel of European history + profound love is a finalist for Republic of Consciousness Prize @usrofc.bsky.social "celebrating the commitment of small presses to exceptional works of literary merit." www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

Join Moshtari Hilal to discuss UGLINESS with Céline Semaan, author + co-founder of Slow Factory. How do power+beauty determine who's considered “ugly”? Wed., March 4, 6:30 p.m. Swiss Institute bookshop do you read me?!, 38 St. Mark's Place in NYC. www.swissinstitute.net/event/conver...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER longlisted for 2026 International Booker Prize. The announcement @thebookerprizes.com quotes the judges: "The big question at the heart of THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER (a ‘superb novel’) is: ‘how far will humans go in order to love?’" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Pick up free ARC of MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova @americanbookseller.bsky.social Winter Institute in Pittsburgh in galley room @consortiumbooks.bsky.social David Lawrence Convention Center (DLCC) 301-305, Level 3, Tues, Wed, + Thurs. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

A rare opportunity to see Anjet Daanje, author of THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, talk about her monumental novel at an online celebration of books longlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize @usrofc.bsky.social. Tune in on Wed., Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. ET. Free Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/8391899290...