“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...

Lots of reports today that Navalny was murdered with exotic dart frog poison. Why? Because they can. These two books by Zygar and Lebedev can give you insights into Putin's Russia.

Are you, like us, waiting impatiently for the April release of Egana Djabbarova's book My Dreadful Body (@newvesselpress.bsky.social )? You are in luck - we have some of her other writings, not yet translated, though! This is an author you need to read.

Join New Vessel Press authors Maya Arad and Noa Yedlin for a conversation about Hebrew fiction today, Tues, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m. Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU. Free registration: as.nyu.edu/departments/...

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is "a potent portrait of illness and gender oppression," says @publisherswkly.bsky.social. "This passionate and lyrical work packs a stinging punch." Translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden. www.publishersweekly.com/9781954404410

Jessica Cohen's translation of THE HEBREW TEACHER by Maya Arad has been awarded the Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Hebrew-English translation. @jesscohen.bsky.social @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/awards-prize...

THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel, translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato. newvesselpress.com/books/theres...

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, by Anjet Daanje in David McKay's translation, is a finalist for the 2026 @penamerica.bsky.social Translation Prize. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on March 31. pen.org/2026-pen-ame...

THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel, translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato. newvesselpress.com/books/theres...

Fans of espionage tales don't have "to put up with bad writing for the sake of a good plot" writes @michaelidov.bsky.social in @crimereads.bsky.social, arguing that UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev is both an excellent spy thriller and good literature. crimereads.com/5-spy-thrill...

Comedian, actor, and producer John Mulaney @mulaney.bsky.social recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje for his book club Mulaney Reads, calling the novel "brilliant . . . It's a knockout." newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...

Author Maya Arad discusses HAPPY NEW YEARS at 8 p.m. ET online TODAY with @jwaonline.bsky.social. Comprising five decades of correspondence, this moving novel weaves together an Israeli woman's lifetime of high hopes and deep disappointments. Register for free: jwa.org/events

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje has been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize @usrofc.bsky.social "celebrating the commitment of small presses to exceptional works of literary merit." Translated from the Dutch by David McKay. www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

More info on the prize here: www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

2025 Longlist for the US/Canada Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize @usrofc.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature

"Clever" and "quick-witted" is how Russian Life describes MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova. "This tour de force short novel recounts the narrator Egana’s various neurological disorders . . . What a wonder she is." russianlife.com/the-russia-f...

THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING is "a thrill...exhilarating, polyphonic...This remarkably inventive and haunting novel blurs the line between reality and fantasy, challenging the reader to keep up and pay attention." @telegraph.co.uk newvesselpress.com/books/theres...

@newvesselpress.bsky.social's 2020 VILLA OF DELIRIUM by ADRIEN GOETZ is a récit in translation from French by Natasha Lehrer designed to keep you involved and intrigued this winter weekend. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/01/vill...

We've solved the problem about what to read this weekend for you! Back in stock and ready for your weekend escape into a novel about memory, love, and life. This book by @newvesselpress.bsky.social will keep you riveted with this deceptively straightforward story of a husband and wife...or is it?

Comedian, actor, and producer John Mulaney @mulaney.bsky.social recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje for his book club Mulaney Reads, calling the novel "brilliant . . . It's a knockout." newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...

HAPPY NEW YEARS is a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Congratulations to author Maya Arad and translator @jesscohen.bsky.social. "A genuine tour de force...and a profoundly incisive rendering of gender politics past and present."@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social newvesselpress.com/books/happy-...

Daniele Del Giudice’s first novel features a protagonist who journeys to Trieste and London to understand the life of mysterious writer Roberto Bazlen—who only published posthumously. Reviewed today in Asymptote. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/01...

THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel is out today, a kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro. Gritty and unpredictable. Translated by National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato. newvesselpress.com/books/theres...

"A terrific tale of fracturing lives in tension and under pressure. If you're after that sensation of "wow! what happened then?" without lingering on the consequences, this is your read."

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...