WOAH! Winter '27, featuring: Ilse Aichinger, Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Carson, Osamu Dazai, Forrest Gander, Mieko Kanai, László Krasznahorkai, Clarice Lispector, Osdany Morales, Nicanor Parra, and Kathryn Scanlan. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzxcg…

Out today in GRANTA, three poems from our forthcoming poetry collection SECURITY QUESTIONS by Osdany Morales, translated by Harry Bauld!

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CELEBRATING LIHN IN NYC (2/2): On November 10 at 7pm, the translators Jonathan Cohen and David Unger will be at Community Bookstore for a reading and discussion of Celeste, Daughter of the Earth, and Other Early Works. @CommunityBkstr
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CELEBRATING LIHN IN NYC (1/2): Join us at 6pm on November 5 at the Instituto Cervantes for a bilingual reading by translators Jonathan Cohen and David Unger, the scholar Roberto Brodsky, and featuring special guest Andrea Lihn, the poet's daughter. eventbrite.com/e/celeste-daug…

"Without a doubt the best poet of his generation" (Roberto Bolaño), the Chilean poet Enrique Lihn wrote with dark and lyric intensity. A collection of his marvelous early work, beautifully translated by Jonathan Cohen and David Unger, arrives in December.
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Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize for Literature: “For her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature” (Nobel Prize Award Committee).

Poster uses art by Rosanna Bruno from THE TROJAN WOMEN.

NEXT WEEK: Mathias Énard is coming to NYC and Boston.

Charlotte Mandell's breathtaking translation of his debut novel, Perfecting the Shot, is out on 10/20 🎯
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10/15 at 6pm: Mathias Énard in conversation with Christopher Byrd at Villa Albertine, NYC
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10/17 at 11:30am: Mathias Énard with Benoit Landon at the Boston Book Festival
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The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize Shortlist:
📖 Ruins, Child by @giadascodellaro (@NewDirections)

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FORTRESS BESIEGED is out this week! Read the new introduction by Yiyun Li in NYRB. nybooks.com/online/2026/08…

Preview SECURITY QUESTIONS by Osdany Morales with three of its poems, out now in GRANTA!

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Our back to school sale is live in the ND shop!✏️📚

Stock up on every book you need for one last laze in the summer sun. The sale ends at midnight on August 24.

Shop available titles here:

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We're excited to share that Tricycle: The Buddhist Review has published an excerpt of COLD MOUNTAIN ZEN. Read it now on the Tricycle website!
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Take a cooling summer walk with 17th-C poet Bashō, @NewDirections books.substack.com/p/diary-basho-…

“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.” Read Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp by Kathryn Scanlan, out this week on our website. buff.ly/chpKl6z

Hello Portland! This Tuesday, Powell's Books is hosting a special panel discussion about our forthcoming FIVE, a collection of novellas by César Aira. Featuring Jeff VanderMeer, Cari Luna, and Kimberly King Parsons!
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