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We hope you will join us on May 21 for a special Novel Prize party, celebrating the latest winner, Giada Scodellaro, an...
05/19/2026

We hope you will join us on May 21 for a special Novel Prize party, celebrating the latest winner, Giada Scodellaro, and her startlingly beautiful RUINS, CHILD.

We will gather for a champagne toast to Giada from ND Publisher Barbara Epler, a short reading, and then a reception in the Community Bookstore garden. We’d love to see you there! 🥂🌷

Please join us on May 21 for a special Novel Prize party, celebrating the latest winner, Giada Scodellaro, and her star...
05/18/2026

Please join us on May 21 for a special Novel Prize party, celebrating the latest winner, Giada Scodellaro, and her startlingly beautiful RUINS, CHILD.

We will gather for a champagne toast to Giada from ND Publisher Barbara Epler, a short reading, and then a reception in the Community Bookstore garden. We’d love to see you there! 🥂🌷

🎨We hope you will join us next week at the Poetry Society of America in Brooklyn for a celebration of Fernando Pessoa an...
05/13/2026

🎨We hope you will join us next week at the Poetry Society of America in Brooklyn for a celebration of Fernando Pessoa and the release of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICARDO REIS. On Wednesday, May 20 at 7pm, poets John Keene, Idra Novey, Mónica de la Torre, and Vijay Seshadri will read, each giving voice to one of Pessoa’s literary personas.🫟

RSVP at the link posted to our story.

We hope you’ll join us at 192 Books this Thursday, May 14 at 7 pm for an evening of conversation with Kit Schluter, tran...
05/11/2026

We hope you’ll join us at 192 Books this Thursday, May 14 at 7 pm for an evening of conversation with Kit Schluter, translator of CITY OF RATS, and author Julia Kornberg to discuss Copi’s newly translated x-***ed fable where the Holy Mountain meets Ratatouille.🐀🥐

“Copi was a Baroque man—a Shakespeare, a Caldéron, magically reincarnated in gay Paris.”—César Aira

Seating is limited and first come first serve.

We hope you’ll join us at 192 Books this Thursday, May 14 at 7 pm for an evening of conversation with Kit Schluter, tran...
05/11/2026

We hope you’ll join us at 192 Books this Thursday, May 14 at 7 pm for an evening of conversation with Kit Schluter, translator of CITY OF RATS, and author Julia Kornberg to discuss Copi’s newly translated x-***ed fable where the Holy Mountain meets Ratatouille.🐀🥐

“Copi was a Baroque man—a Shakespeare, a Caldéron, magically reincarnated in gay Paris.”—César Aira
Seating is limited and first come first serve.

🌱OUT TODAY: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICARDO REIS, the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa’s celebrated “heter...
05/05/2026

🌱OUT TODAY: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICARDO REIS, the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa’s celebrated “heteronyms,” among which Ricardo Reis stands as the most pointed and classical presence. His odes, beautifully translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari, move among jugs of wine, ivy leaves, destiny, and the austere pleasure of self-command, yet beneath their composure runs a quiet existential unease.🌷

⭐️”A rhapsodic collection of poems.” —Kirkus (starred)

115 [c. 2 September 1923]

Whether I pick you or leave you, flowers,
Your destiny remains the same.

You, path that I follow, are heading
For other destinations, not just mine.

We are nothing that is of any worth
And are therefore doubly worthless.

Our very last galley of DOONEEN, the Great Dublin Novel for the 21st century by the astonishing Irish literary magician ...
05/05/2026

Our very last galley of DOONEEN, the Great Dublin Novel for the 21st century by the astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway ( ).🍀

“Ridgway’s scintillating and dreamlike latest terms with big ideas about the complex legacy of the Troubles in a country transformed by immigration and wealth…a bracing and singular state-of-the-nation novel.”

DOONEEN will be out June 2, and Keith Ridgway will join us in New York later in June to celebrate its release. Event details to come. 🎈🍾

Highlighting this recent release: BUSINESSMEN AS LOVERS by the delightful Rosemary Tonks. Friends and lovers frolic on a...
04/23/2026

Highlighting this recent release: BUSINESSMEN AS LOVERS by the delightful Rosemary Tonks. Friends and lovers frolic on a sun-soaked Italian vacation—but in classic Tonks style, everything boils over with operatic drama, misanthropy, and arch silliness. Businessmen fall in love, too, but it is with each other.

▫️“Writing like this is far too accomplished to be kept off the shelf.” —Michael Hofmann, Poetry Magazine

We are thrilled to share that LitHub is giving away ten copies of Eka Kurniawan’s most contemporarily relevant ant book:...
04/22/2026

We are thrilled to share that LitHub is giving away ten copies of Eka Kurniawan’s most contemporarily relevant ant book: THE DOG MEOWS, THE CAT BARKS (tr. Annie Tucker).

This swift, intense novel about a teen rebelling against religious conformity in a small Javanese town tackles (and rejects) militancy and moral certitude of any kind.

⭐️”A clear-eyed perspective with moments of visceral emotion. This brims with humor and heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)

Please enter the giveaway through the link below (also posted on our story): https://lithub.com/the-dog-meows-the-cat-barks-giveaway/

LitHub also has published an excerpt from the novel, available here: https://lithub.com/the-dog-meows-the-cat-barks/

Join us for ND Book Club at McNally Jackson SoHo! On May 5th at 7pm we’ll discuss Mathias Énard’s breathtaking novel of ...
04/21/2026

Join us for ND Book Club at McNally Jackson SoHo! On May 5th at 7pm we’ll discuss Mathias Énard’s breathtaking novel of war and its devastations, stunningly translated by Charlotte Mandell and recently longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

In June, we will read W. G. Sebald’s early masterpiece, The Emigrants: “tragic, stunningly beautiful, and haunting” (New York Review of Books).

Links to register are on our Instagram story!

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