New Directions

BEHOLD! Fall '26, featuring: Olga Ravn, Mathias Énard, Helle Helle, Ingeborg Bachmann, Amparo Dávila, Mirabai, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Enrique Lihn, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, and Solvej Balle. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzxcg…

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! @Powells powells.com/events/five-97…

Giada Scodellaro reads "Lateness"—an excerpt from her novel Ruins, Child— on the BRICK podcast (also published in BRICK issue 117). Links for listening: open.spotify.com/episode/4Zm5rI… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/bri…

Fun fact! Bob Odenkirk is a fan of Solvej Balle. Her series ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is mentioned in this interview: youtu.be/u50vuOwtTSA?si…

TUNE IN! Solvej Balle discusses her series ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME on CBC's Bookends with Mattea Roach Podcast link: link.mgln.ai/RyEfbx CBC Books web feature: cbc.ca/books/bookends…

Tonight Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC: Keith Ridgway & @NYerFiction Deputy Editor Cressida Leyshon! eventbrite.com/e/dooneen-by-k…

Reserve a spot to see our deputy fiction editor, Cressida Leyshon, speak with Keith Ridgway about his new novel, "Dooneen," at Rizzoli Bookstore, Thursday, June 18. eventbrite.com/e/dooneen-by-k…

Check out this new interview of Giada Scodellaro by Colette Estelle for Public Seminar, where they discuss the inspirations for RUINS, CHILD! publicseminar.org/2026/06/writin…

🎉🎉Congratulations to Charlotte Mandell! Winner of the 2026 Translation Prize for Fiction for her translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS. frenchamerican.org/2026-translati…

For our spring issue, Granta goes to Scandinavia. Read the issue for free online for the next five days. granta.com/products/grant…

“Rather than glamorizing the West or sentimentalizing the East, Qian is highly attuned to the delusions and misunderstandings that impede cross-cultural understanding.”—Andrew Chan writes about Qian Zhongshu’s 1947 novel “Fortress Besieged” @NewDirections 4columns.org/chan-andrew/fo…

“What he writes both is his life and isn’t…” Read an excerpt from Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING (@NewDirections), translated by Robin Myers, winner of the 2025 @nationalbook Award in Translated Literature: latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2026/03/we-are…

I wrote about the reissue of José Emilio Pacheco’s poetry by @NewDirections ! Pictured here in a delightful translation by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston poetryfoundation.org/articles/17967…

Please join us on May 14 at 7 pm for an evening of conversation about Copi’s CITY OF RATS. Seating is first come first serve, no RSVP needed.

'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' Broadway Revival Coming in 2027 From Tony-Winning 'Fun Home' Director Sam Gold (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/news…

I built this website: NDCOLLECTOR.com; it is a database of every book/edition released by New Directions going back to the beginning.

Join Joshua Cohen and Michael Hofmann in conversation about Koeppen tomorrow at Rizzoli Bookstore! rizzolibookstore.com/trilogy-failur…

theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/0… Joshua Cohen’s introduction to DEATH IN ROME out now in @parisreview : “Koeppen’s technique bears beauty as entr’acte between the world’s recurrent slaughters.”

Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…