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The Monroe Girls - Archipelago Books For readers of Thomas Pynchon, a conspiratorial adventure through a bleak future where the dead (and their political factions) never really die, from one of France’s most visionary writers Breton has ...

We'll publish Volodine's conspiratorial novel on March 17th. Thank you @jacqbetula.bsky.social and @irishtimes.com for the feature.

Pre-order here! archipelagobooks.org/book/the-mon...

Translated fiction: Women in Ukraine; Jewish Guatemalans ready for war; an East German memoir Works by Yuliia Iliukha, Artem Chapeye, Antoine Volodine, Eduardo Halfon, Julia Franck and Elisa Shua Dusapin

Declan O'Driscoll on THE MONROE GIRLS:

"The narration is a series of discoveries we share with the bifurcated narrator, Breton, and our perplexity only increases as we stumble towards each disclosure in this slyly humorous and subversively inventive novel."

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I thought I’d recommend A Parish Chronicle, by Halldor Laxness. And unlike my recent Laxness favorite, Salk Valka, which was a big bruiser, I thought the little story of an old church disappearing and reappearing might be just the thing. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Walking - Archipelago Books

In October, we'll publish Walking by Sevgi Soysal, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Helen Mackreath wrote in The White Review that "reading Sevgi Soysal today restores the volatility and violence of female concerns." Pre-order is available now. archipelagobooks.org/book/walking/

A Saga in Miniature: On Halldór Laxness’s A Parish Chronicle Einginn fær mig ofan í jörð áður en ég er dauður. (No one puts me in the ground before I’m dead.) –Þorsteinn Erlingsson * In October 1969, Halldór Laxness was in Rome doing what came naturally to h…

"It is the work of a writer with nothing to prove, only to tell." — Salvatore Scibona lithub.com/a-saga-in-mi...

A Parish Chronicle

Two raves for the new Halldór Laxness, A Parish Chronicle! "Laxness is one of the great fabulists of modern letters." — Sjón, 4columns 4columns.org/sjon/a-paris...

Elsewhere Editions Publisher Preview (Spring & Fall 2026) We've a mere four titles in today's publisher preview but whatta four it is!

We've a mere four titles in today's publisher preview with Elsewhere Editions of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social, but whatta four it is! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/01/30/e...

Swing by this Saturday afternoon!

The 15 best books of 2025 Why our top picks of the year were about serial killers, silence and the enduring grace of the written word, according to The Times' reviewers.

Emmelie Prophète's Cécé, translated by Aidan Rooney, is an LA Times best book of 2025.

"Cécé can be read as a portrait of contemporary Haiti, a parable about influencer culture or a distressing study of exploitation . . . Prophète’s vision is piercing."

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"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" In the sun it exhibits / its split petioles / Its sheets of bark / mushrooms in their folds /

Today’s Featured Poem:

"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" by Christian Lehnert, translated by Richard Sieburth from wickerwork published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Read here:
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Archipelago Books x Theater of the Matters: These Encounters of Theirs Non-professional Tuscan actors voice godly concerns in the final Straub-Huillet film.

Tickets! www.bam.org/film/2025/ar...

Tomorrow at BAM we're celebrating the English release of Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues with a 35mm screening of Straub and Huillet's final feature, These Encounters of Theirs (2005).

Thank you @criterion.bsky.social for the lovely mention:

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"Try to Praise the Mutilated W… - A Lovely Wallpaper - Apple Podcasts Podcast Episode · A Lovely Wallpaper · 11/26/2025 · 1h 20m

You can now listen to a beautiful conversation between Selma Asotić (we published her debut, Say Fire, this September) and Abby Walthausen in A Lovely Wallpaper.

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PREPOSITION reviews SAY FIRE (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social, 2025) by @Selma Asotić.

"...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..."

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Sale time! Enjoy 40% off when you shop Archipelago and Elsewhere titles until December 8th. With each book you purchase, we'll donate a book to a library or prison program on your behalf. Code: "BUYONEGIVEONE."

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Two books on a black background: Luigi Pirandello’s One, None, and. hundred Grand; and Cesare Pavese’s The Leucothea Dialogues, both just out from Archipelago Books

A great day for book mail from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social!

Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...

MON NOV 3 / One, None, and a Hundred Grand by Luigi Pirandello with translator Sean Wilsey and moderator Jennifer Egan 7pm  Join us for a very special evening where Sean Wilsey and Jennifer Egan will join forces to discuss Wilsey’s translation of One, None, and a Hundred Grand, Luigi Pirandello’s tragicomic classic. W...

Monday night in Brooklyn! Join us!!
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Today we publish this masterpiece of Italian letters.

A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch.
—Sam Lipsyte

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Double Vision An excerpt from <em>One, None, and a Hundred Grand</em> by Luigi Pirandello, translated from Italian by Sean Wilsey

"I know you’re still bewildered, irritated, mortified by your disgraceful behavior towards your old friend..."

⊱ From ONE, NONE, AND A HUNDRED GRAND by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Sean Wilsey ⊱

Out today from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social !

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New arrivals from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social

Yesterday we published Selma Asotić's debut poetry collection, Say Fire, and Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues. Very different works, but equally arresting.

Check them out: archipelagobooks.org/books/

Last chance for 40% off a stack of your own... use the code FALLFLASHSALE until 11pm tonight.

On Our Nightstands: September 2025 - Public Books A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.

For the latest On Our Nightstands, co–editor-in-chief @njdames.bsky.social recommends The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social).

Fiction: Emmelie Prophète’s ‘Cécé’ Plus Claire Adam’s “Love Forms” and Kiran Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.”

"Aidan Rooney’s terrific translation from the French conveys the heroine’s profound despair and snarky resilience. Célia is opinionated, vulnerable, mordantly funny . . . For Célia, to post is to be."

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sale time! take 40% off our backlist with the code FALLFLASHSALE when you shop now through October 1st at archipelagobooks.org! Happy National Translation Month (aka every month to us)!

Cécé Emmelie Prophète is a Haitian writer who has published six novels, one of which (Le Testament des solitudes, translated as Blue by Tina Kover) has already appeared in English. Whereas Blue was her …

A Haitian novel from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social about survival by any means: Cece by Emmelie Prophete (translated by Aidan Rooney):
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“Someday, / someone will stand before you, and you’ll / realize / time is just a trick by which the sun renews / its vow to the flowers.”
—Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

A quote from "CECE" and the cover

"In many ways, Cécé reflects, the Cité is a microcosm of the world, with its brutal power structures, ruthlessness, and breakdown of the law.” Benoit Landon reviews CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. @aidanrooney.bsky.social , @archipelagobooks.bsky.social ): wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

We're having a party! Tonight at Cafe Gitane in Brooklyn, with lots of wine and some glorious platters of South Indian fare.

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Tickets also available at the door.