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Astra House is a literary imprint dedicated to publishing authors across genres and from around the

We value works that are authentic, ask new questions, present counter-narratives and original thinking, challenge our assumptions, and broaden and deepen our understanding of the world. Our mission is to advocate for authors who experience their subject deeply and personally, and who have a strong point of view; writers who represent multifaceted expressions of intellectual thought and personal ex

perience, and who can introduce readers to new perspectives about their everyday lives as well as the lives of others.

06/25/2026

🙏 ENTER TODAY 🙏

The Holy Trinity of Esther Yi Sweepstakes!

❗️ YOU could win a copy of Esther Yi’s upcoming collection of fiction TO GOD, alongside a copy of her debut novel Y/N AND a copy of the June 22nd issue of the New Yorker, which features one of the stories from the collection.

THREE WINNERS will be chosen (see what we did there? 👀)

TO ENTER:
1️⃣ Follow Astra House
2️⃣ Tag your holy trio

🗓️ Giveaway ends Thursday, June 2, 2026 at 12 PM
🇺🇸 Open to U.S. participates only, 18+

**Additional entries available with the link in our bio.

06/24/2026

✨ PAPERBACK ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

📦 I DELIVER PARCELS IN BEIJING by Hu Anyan, translated by Jack Hargreaves will be available in paperback September 8, 2026!

The honest and startling first-person account of one man’s struggle against the dehumanizing nature of our contemporary global work system and his discovery of the power of sharing a story.

“This fascinating debut memoir recounts its author’s career in the lower rungs of China’s consumer economy . . . His account reveals an author searching for his true self and finding it, amid unceasing toil, in the act of observation.” —The New Yorker

06/23/2026

✨ Happy Pub Day to NEBRASKA by Monica Datta!

Yesterday, Monica celebrated the release of NEBRASKA at McNally Jackson with former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair Radhika Jones.

Today, we celebrate the release with a rave New York Times Book Review!

“The flashes of insight about [Datta’s] characters are brilliant, and frightening . . . The depictions of grief in NEBRASKA border on the transcendent.” — Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Book Review

NEBRASKA is available today wherever books are sold!

06/22/2026

✨ PRESENCE: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE FEMALE BODY is a beautiful full color package that not only tells the vibrant history of women’s bodies but also holds stunning photos.

This is a book that you’ll want to own, hold, read, and ultimately, display! Get your copy today!

“I’ve been savoring Erin Maglaque’s book PRESENCE: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE FEMALE BODY . . . [Erin Maglaque] is a really good historian, and a terrific stylist who writes with vivid, pointillistic detail about breast-feeding, infant care, sleeping, s*x and pregnancy, birth—all that stuff that doesn’t usually make it into the historical record.” —Namara Smith, The New Yorker

06/18/2026

🌟 Congratulations to Harris Lahti, author of FORECLOSURE GOTHIC, for being a 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award finalist.

On Monday, June 15th the winner was announced at the Celeste Barton Forum of the Stephen A. Schwartzman building.

📸 Credit: BFA / Jason Lowrie

Young Lions of NYPL

06/17/2026

💬 Dad’s can you relate? 😅

Father’s Day is around the corner and DAD HAD A BAD DAY author Ashton Politanoff is giving us all the dad vibes we need this year.

06/16/2026

🖼️ Happy Pub Day to PRESENCE: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE FEMALE BODY by Erin Maglaque!

A thoroughly researched, vibrant history of women’s bodies, expertise, and work.

“[A] soulful, moving, sometimes cacophonous account of European women’s experiences and interior lives from about 1500 to 1800 . . . [Maglaque’s riveting survey reveals just how much of what the modern Western world accepts as given, even natural, was created in this period: from female beauty ideals (which swing from a shape of “abundance, fertility” to “one of refinement and self-control” by late 18th century) to our notions of personhood, or**sm, gender. In writing as visceral as Cixous demands, Maglaque also uses these revelations to help make sense of her own life, whisking the reader numbly between this distant past and her present, personal encounters with desire, abortion, birth, ambition.” —Mattie Kahn, The New York Times Book Review

Read an online excerpt in Literary Hub.

Now available wherever books are sold!

06/15/2026

🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE MONTH IS HERE! 🏳️‍🌈

Celebrate LGBTQ+ stories and authors with Astra House.

We have fantastic titles for you to pick up this month (and every other month)!

👀 Let us know which book(s) you’ll be celebrating Pride with this June in the comments.

06/12/2026

🐞 Why should you buy OFFSEASON this weekend?

Here’s Avigayl Sharp with a short message.

Happy Friday!

06/10/2026

Kōhei Saitō is back with the follow-up to his global best seller, SLOW DOWN.

CAPITAL FROM ZERO, translated by Brian Bergstrom, is a reading guide, a manifesto, a revision, and a reclamation of Marx’s foundational work of political theory.

CAPITAL FROM ZERO reconstructs Marx’s CAPITAL from a totally new perspective based on more recent research findings, liberating Marx from old dogmas of the Soviet socialism and aiming to rekindle our ability to envision a more equal sustainable society beyond capitalism.

Order SLOW DOWN and preorder CAPITAL FROM ZERO today! The book duo you’ll want to own for a fresh new voice in Marxist theory.

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