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Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

We were so lucky to have @veryhotmomm.bsky.social and Neige in conversation this spring--read them talking about writing and power in their own words on @thecreativeindependent.com: thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Friday essay: trauma memoirs can help us understand the unthinkable. They can also be art Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.

"Yet in taking their own experiences of trauma seriously, by directing their writing and reading towards understanding and articulating it, Hood and Sinno expand the horizons of what trauma literature can be. Their books mark the arrival of two major literary talents."

A Palestinian flag hanging in a bookshop full of books.

“It is the return of the sun,
Of my exiled ones
And for her sake, and his
I swear
I shall not compromise
And to the last pulse in my veins
I shall resist,
Resist—and resist.”

From Sameeh Al-Qassem’s “Enemy of the Sun”. A handwritten copy of the poem found was found in George Jackson’s cell.

Jessica Benhar! The piece is called “Woman Vs Tiger”

Graphic announcing SAD TIGER as a National Book Award finalist for translated literature

SAD TIGER IS A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST! Congratulations to Neige and Natasha, and thank you to everyone who’s supported this thorny and thoughtful book. Tune into the awards ceremony with us on November 19th!

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CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. Aidan Rooney) THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (tr. Alex Niemi) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin GRACE PERIOD by Maria Judite de Carvalho (tr. Margaret Jull Costa) ANIMAL STORIES by Kate Zambreno INTO THE WEEDS by Lydia Davis THE WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn (tr. Martin Aitken) HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman DREAMING OF DEAD PEOPLE by Rosalind Belben GOOSE OF HERMOGENES by Ithell Colquhoun IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore) RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones & Robin Myers) MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf ORLANDA by Jacqueline Harpman (tr. Ros Schwartz) THE OTHER GIRL by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) SAY FIRE by Selma Asotić LITTLE WORLD by Josephine Rowe THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY by Edward Mendelson ALPHA AND OMEGA by Jane Ellen Harrison

I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!

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“You see I have this broken nose I got
when el tico Lizano hit me with a brick
because I said it was obviously a foul”

From “I Wasn’t Always This Ugly” by Roque Dalton, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. buff.ly/nYl90IS

Working on a new book, “The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government.” Drawing from my experience as a prosecutor, the book offers ideas to take back our democracy and a vision for the future. Available June 9, 2026. Here’s the cover. What do you think?

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Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpman’s ORLANDA, a brilliant leap of a body swap novel. A sexy, smart, and beguiling companion to her hit I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN. Pick up a copy on September 30!

Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman translated by Roz Schwartz The groundbreaking novel about a woman whose subconscious mind splinters and finds itself in the body of a young man, from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men. Now in paperback with a new foreword by Isle McElroy for the 30th anniversary of its original publication.

With the success of I Who Have Never Known Men, more of Jacqueline Harpman's works are becoming available, like her novel Orlanda. 1 part Virginia Woolf's Orlando (obv), 1 part the psychology of Fight Club (..less obv), 1 part Harpman's brilliant insights. Out on 9/30

New books this week: Tales from Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, and new translations The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

book cover for alabama village by j malcolm garcia with white and tan lettering over a photorealistic image of a person with brown skin in the middle of a back flip in front of a building with white siding and a mural with a cross and small houses

ALABAMA VILLAGE by @jmalcolmgarcia.bsky.social comes out 10/14/25 from @sevenstories.bsky.social @clairekelley.bsky.social #nonfiction #narrative #neighborhood #community #reality #BookSky

book cover for orlanda by jacqueline harpman, translated by ros schwartz with red and white lettering over a blue background with a modern art style image of a round red shape above and tied to a dark blue shape that could represent a human form

ORLANDA by jacqueline harpman (translated by @ros-schwartz.bsky.social) releases 10/7/25 from @sevenstories.bsky.social @clairekelley.bsky.social #homage #VirginiaWoolf #identity #contemporary #paris #IWhoHaveNeverKnownMen #BookSky

“From social media censorship to the pernicious surveillance of Palestinians and their supporters, Omar Zahzah chronicles the intimate involvement of American Big Tech corporations in Israel’s unrelenting settler-colonial project. Terms of Servitude provides a guide to understanding and resisting digital settler colonialism. It is a timely and urgent read for everyone concerned with the fate of Palestine.” – Michael Kwet, author of Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival

TERMS OF SERVITUDE documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States support the Israeli settler-colonial project through censorship. @omarzahzah.bsky.social's groundbreaking new book is now available from @projectcensored.bsky.social and Seven Stories Press.

"Canary Mission is not just intended to intimidate or harass. It states its ultimate goal explicitly: to eliminate job prospects for supporters of Palestinian freedom and liberation." Omar Zahzah looks at the experience of online blacklisting in an excerpt from TERMS OF SERVITUDE in today's LitHub

The New McCarthyism: On Canary Mission’s Toxic Blacklisting of Pro-Palestinian Sentiment In February 2015, a friend texted me the following message: Hey Omar, there’s a new site you need to see… it has your name and information on it. Graduate school is hard for everyone, but I think i…

Omar Zahzah looks at digital settler colonialism: “Even if blacklisting is a well-worn strategy of Zionist persecution, Canary Mission constitutes an escalation.”

"What Ernaux is often writing about in her books is what Virginia Woolf describes as 'moments of being,' rare instances in one’s life when one is fully alive." Sarah McEachern reviews the new translation of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-other-one-is-me/

New books this week: Tales from Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, and new translations The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

"Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in literature for a body of work so resistant to labels, it fell to the French writer to coin one herself: "autosociobiography,". It's an ironically long, unwieldy name for books that have been noted for their deft grace and, frankly, their tendency to be quite short."

“the two girls merge with each other and then separate into different places from where they started. What’s left is the chilling experience of childhood destabilization.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Poetic and raw but never maudlin, this beautiful meditation on a very particular kind of grief will resonate with anyone trying to process a major loss of their own.

THE OTHER GIRL, our beloved Annie Ernaux’s profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, is out today from Seven Stories Press and available wherever fine books are sold.

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A GIRL AND A POEM He promised to write me a poem Since then, every morning I say: Mother! I’ll go to the news-stand. My mother does not know that every morning I steal a piece of my brothers’ food And with it buy a newspaper, Hoping to find the promised poem there. It is now two months that I buy papers with food But the poem was never there. Only today he phoned, and when I asked he answered: That he wrote the poem long ago: That the poem was written the moment he promised it And that waiting for the poem, was the poem itself. And now I feel empty! Now I don’t want to go to the news-stand. Mother! Why did he phone this morning, and stop the poem? -RASHED HUSSEIN

This updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, an internationally recognized Lebanese-American scholar, and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas. ENEMY OF THE SUN is available wherever books are sold.

DEFIANCE You may fasten my chains Deprive me of my books and tobacco You may fill my mouth with earth Poetry will feed my heart, like blood It is salt to the bread And liquid to the eye I will write it with nails, eye sockets and daggers I will recite it in my prison cell— In the bathroom— In the stable— Under the whip— Under the chains— In spite of my handcuffs I have a million nightingales On the branches of my heart Singing the song of liberation. -MAHMOUD DARWEESH

In the intertwined histories of this book, and in the unyielding political edge of the poems themselves, is a long story of solidarity between oppressed peoples: from Palestine to South Africa to Algeria to Vietnam to the United States.