New Directions

11/25/2025

Happy 180th birthday, José Maria de Eça Queirós!

“Portugal’s greatest novelist.”—José Saramago

One of the leading intellectuals of the “Generation of 1870,” José Maria de Eça Queirós wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat in Havana, London, and Paris.

11/24/2025

❄️Our holiday sale, just in time for all reading-pleasure and gift-giving needs❄️

Now through November 30th.

https://www.ndbooks.com

11/20/2025

Marcia Douglas’s THE JAMAICA KOLLECTION OF THE SHANTE DREAM ARKIVE was selected as one of Best Books of 2025. Many congratulations💫💫

“The adventurous and immersive latest from Douglas continues the author’s fusion of poetry and prose with a nonlinear tale combining an escape from slavery in 18th century Jamaica and immigrant life in 2010s America…The author’s originality is on full display in this challenging and rewarding work.”
—Publishers Weekly

11/20/2025

🌿WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers, is the winner of the 2025 National Book Award in Translated Literature🌿

“WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING has to do with the infinite diversity and mutability of language over time, with the scourge of colonialism, with the power of tenderness, with the ability of the natural world to exist and resist beyond human horror…It gives a new language to think not about hope, but about love.”
—Robin Myers, from her acceptance speech

11/18/2025

Happy long awaited November 18th: The marvelous third installment of Solvej B***e’s septology, ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, is out today, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.

Tara Selter’s November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. Where BOOK I and II focused on a single woman’s involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, BOOK III brings us back into the realm of companionship, with all its thrills, odd quirks, and a sense of mutual bewilderment at having to relearn how to exist alongside others in a shared reality.

Read an excerpt in here: https://www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167-1403/

And a profile of Solvej B***e out today in here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/magazine/solvej-balle-calculation-of-volume.html

11/18/2025

The final ND Book Club of 2025 will meet next Tuesday, December 2, to discuss Alexis Wright’s CARPENTARIA, an operatic and surreal portrait of life in the precariously settled town of Desperance on the northwest coast of Queensland, Australia.

December 2, 7pm
McNally Jackson SoHo
134 Prince Street, NYC

10/30/2025

10/30/2025

Next Tuesday, November 4th at 7pm, the ND Book Club will meet at McNally Jackson to discuss Marlen Haushofer’s THE WALL, a haunting novel that is at once a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian adventure, and a truly singular feminist classic.

There will be wine...

Next month’s pick is CARPENTARIA, Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic: an operatic and surreal blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce

10/14/2025

⭐️2025 National Translation Award in Poetry Shortlist⭐️

🎵CHIMERA by Phoebe Giannisi, translated from Greek by Brian Sneeden

Thank you to and congratulations all!

10/14/2025

⭐️2025 National Translation Award in Poetry Shortlist⭐️

🎵CHIMERA by Phoebe Giannisi, translated from Greek by Brian Sneeden

Congratulations!

10/14/2025

New fiction out this week: UNFIT, a savagely sophisticated and shockingly brilliant novel by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Jessie Mendez Sayer.

“Dangerously addictive.”—The Guardian

⭐️”Harwicz spins an unrelenting tale of a migrant woman who takes drastic steps to fulfill her radical conception of motherly love…Harwicz’s assured pacing is bolstered by her gorgeous and often darkly funny prose…The result is a wild and unforgettable ride.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Celebrating lust and bolshiness with an intensity worthy of Clarice Lispector.”—The Times Literary Supplement