New Directions

01/14/2026

Hooray! REQUIEM by Aharon Shabtai, translated by Peter Cole was shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award.

Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for stocktaking and peace, REQUIEM cries out for an end to carnage and slaughter.

01/12/2026

Join us at McNally Jackson SoHo at 7 pm on the first Tuesday of the month for the ND Book Club.

🌬️⚡️On February 3rd, we’ll discuss Fernanda Melchor’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel HURRICANE SEASON: “a bilious, profane, blood-spattered tempest of rage” (Wall Street Journal) that casts “a powerful spell” (NPR).

🚨Next up in March: José Donoso’s THE OBSCENE BIRD OF THE NIGHT.

Register at the link in our bio.

01/07/2026

🎈This February, we are reissuing two books by 2025 Nobel Laureate László Krasznahorkai in paperback.🎈

⌛️A classic escape nightmare, CHASING HOMER is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations.

🏚️BARON WENCKHEIM’S HOMECOMING, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown.

01/05/2026

A belated congratulations to the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlist books!

🐌Susan Howe’s PENITENTIAL CRIES was listed for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.

🌕Yoko Tawanda’s EXOPHONY, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, was listed for the PEN Translation Prize.

📘Solvej B***e’s ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III), translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell, was listed for the PEN Translation Prize.

Cheers!🥂

12/18/2025

EXOPHONY and THE WAX CHILD were longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.

💭EXOPHONY by Yoko Tawada and translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda presents an electrifying new side of the National Book Award-winner as she dives deep into her lifelong fascination with cross-hybridizing languages.

🕸️THE WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn and translated by Martin Aitken is an unsettling horror story about brutality and power, nature and witchcraft, set in the fragile communities of premodern Europe and narrated by a wax doll.

Congratulations all! 💐🎈

12/18/2025

We are offering a DISCOUNT on our ND Poetry Club through December 31st.🎁

ND Poetry Club: was $85, now $70

Members receive six books a year, spanning works by luminaries both new and established.

Subscribe now to receive our December/January pick, Susan Howe’s stirring collection PENITENTIAL CRIES, plus our gift to you, Susan Howe’s CONCORDANCE.

Thank you for reading our books.💌

12/17/2025

We are offering a DISCOUNT on our book clubs through December 31st as a way to say thank you for reading our books. 💌

🎁NEW CLASSICS CLUB: was $175, now $140

The New Classics Club is just the thing for anyone who considers reading “a way of life” (LITHUB). Members receive twelve books a year with titles selected by our editors.

Subscribe by the end of the month to receive our December pick, ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III) by Solvej B***e, plus our gift to you, THE ILLOGICAL OF KASSEL by Enrique Vila-Matas.

Thank you again to all our readers. It’s our pleasure to share the literature we love with you. 🫶

12/17/2025

💐National Book Critics Circle Longlist💐

🐅SEA, POISON by Caren Beilin is longlisted for fiction.

📘ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III) by Solvej B***e is longlisted for fiction.

🌪️EXOPHONY by Yoko Tawada is longlisted for criticism.

Congratulations all, and thank you ⭐️!

12/16/2025

💐National Book Critics Circle Longlist💐

📘ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III) is longlisted for fiction.

🌪️EXOPHONY is longlisted for criticism.

Congratulations to all, and thank you !

12/16/2025

12/16/2025

The selected Erik Carter’s cover design of ON THE CLOCK by Claire Baglin as one of the best book covers of 2025!📚🍔

“Baglin’s assured debut is both an inventory of the impersonal world of fast food and a personal narrative of a working-class life…Like treated beef, Baglin’s novel is a lean, finely textured thing. In Jordan Stump’s translation from the French, the novel captures the little triumphs, stinging humiliations, and physical toll of labor.” —Walker Ritter-Bowman, THE BAFFLER

12/08/2025

“I originally wished to share my thoughts with you on the subject of hope, but as my stores of hope have definitely come to an end, I will now speak about angels.”—László Krasznahorkai, from his Nobel week lecture