Will Rees

Kieran Andrieu, my colleague at @novaramedia & a friend I admire, has now been kidnapped by Israel. What is happening off the coast of Gaza is illegal under international law. Share this video. A British citizen has been kidnapped @Keir_Starmer.

@ejhchess Hi there - yes, I discuss it briefly in the book. Thanks for the recommendation!

@williamrees0 Hi. Saw your thing in the Guardian or the Observer today and I wondered if you'd ever come across Three Men In A Boat authorama.com/three-men-in-a…

Hypochondria reviewed in The New York Times 👀 nytimes.com/2025/03/13/boo…

‘A patient must heave their entire body into their mouth.’ Will Rees in search of a diagnosis. ‘Hypochondria’ is out now. granta.com/waiting-room-w…

“To be a hypochondriac is to assign the most important place in one’s life to something that no one else believes is real.” @williamrees0 on Franz Kafka’s health anxiety and a writer’s calling. lithub.com/what-kafkas-hy…

Hypochondria is now out in North America. Here is an excerpt in @PioneerWorks_ Broadcast pioneer-works.netlify.app/broadcast/hypo…

In May I'll be teaching a course on essay-writing alongside Chitra Ramaswamy, with a guest appearance from Brian Dillon. Tickets and details below: arvon.org/writing-course…

American Genius, A Comedy is a ‘captivating, strange novel’ narrated by ‘a postmodern successor to such endearingly digressive women as Winnie from Beckett’s Happy Days or Joyce’s Molly Bloom.’ 🖤 theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

In March we are publishing On Breathing by Jamieson Webster, a beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe peninsulapress.co.uk/products/on-br…

We are very pleased to announce that in February we will be publishing The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha Youssef has long been one of the most exciting contemporary writers in Arabic. We are thrilled to be bringing his English-language debut into the world peninsulapress.co.uk/products/the-d…

Tomorrow at The Pulsion Institute, NYC Tickets pulsioninstitute.com/events/

We strongly endorse this letter, from hundreds of international publishers, calling on the Frankfurt Book Fair to publicly denounce and cut ties with Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime 🇵🇸

Happy publication day to Lynne Tillman, whose outstanding novel American Genius, A Comedy publishes today ✨✨✨

Lynne Tillman’s masterful novel American Genius, A Comedy publishes this week ✨To celebrate we are giving away 60 *free* limited edition risograph posters printed in Hackney and numbered by hand ✨ Stocks are extremely limited. Get yours here 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/products/ameri…

In October, Lynne Tillman will be visiting Europe to mark the UK publication of American Genius, A Comedy

Here’s the cover for The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini, the forgotten masterpiece that ‘dazzled’ Borges🎭 Translated from the Spanish by Jordan Landsman Out November | Preorder here 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/collections/fr…

✨Coming in January 2025✨ The Visitor by Maeve Brennan, with a new introduction by Lynne Tillman

A very happy publication day to Graham Caveney, whose stunning memoir about books, love, and terminal illness publishes today 🦢 Read an excerpt in @lithub 👇 lithub.com/what-illness-c… And order the book 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/products/the-b…

The happiest of happy publication days to Eliza Barry Callahan, whose absurdly – frankly, frighteningly – good debut The Hearing Test publishes today peninsulapress.co.uk/products/the-h…

The Hearing Test, Eliza Barry Callahan’s stunning essayistic novel about sound, silence, and sight, is out tomorrow Available from our website, and reviewed here in the Observer by @john_self theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…