New Directions

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

10/13/2025

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10/09/2025

LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI IS THE WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE!
WE LOVE YOU!

10/07/2025

Out today🌫️: THINGS THAT DISAPPEAR, an exciting new collection of autobiographical essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize.

“Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating - ferocious as well as virtuosic.”
—Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books

“THINGS THAT DISAPPEAR captures with startling lucidity a modernity characterized by unrest, upset, and dissolution.”
—Philip Harris, The Cleveland Review of Books

09/30/2025

Out now: THE WAX CHILD, an unsettling horror story about brutality and power from Olga Ravn, the celebrated author of MY WORK and the Booker Prize-shortlisted THE EMPLOYEES.

“Gripping…This devilishly subversive feminist anthem is one of a kind.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“THE WAX CHILD spins its own spellbinding tale of loss and longing…A magnificent book. A true masterpiece of both substance and style.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

09/11/2025

🍂 We are so excited to share our books that are out this September!

✨OUT NOW:

THE WAX CHILD, an astounding, haunting tale of accused witches—a book
of sorcery itself—from the celebrated author of THE EMPLOYEES and MY
WORK by translated by Martin Aitken
Cover by O.O.P.S.

ARCHIPELAGO OF THE SUN, the concluding volume of her enormously
popular and cheerfully dystopian trilogy, Yoko Tawada’s intrepid young band
of friends strike out in search of the lost Land of Sushi.
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Cover by John Gall

PENITENTIAL CRIES, a stirring, lyric new collection by Susan Howe, one
of America’s foremost poets.
Cover photo by Jen Bervin ; design by Leslie Miller

TRACKER, a breathtaking, monumental work of collective memoir and
indigenous memory from the master storyteller Alexis Wright.
Cover by John Gall

09/09/2025

💫NBA Longlist for translated literature💫
🍃WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Camara, translated by Robin Myers
⏰ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej B***e, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

With stunning covers from Matt Dorfman and Oliver Munday

Congratulations all!

07/16/2025

Hot off the press:

INTO THE SUN by C. F. Ramuz, “the greatest Swiss novelist of the French language” (The New Yorker), in the sun today and available on August 19th in a brilliant translation by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes.

Cover by Erik Carter