New Directions

BEHOLD! Spring/Summer '26, featuring: Marlen Haushofer, Qian Zhongshu, César Aira, Paul Celan, Keith Ridgway, Hélène Bessette, Osamu Dazai, Bashō, Hanshan, and Kamau Brathwaite. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzxcg…

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is on the cover of Latin American Literature Today, with an excerpt from We Are Green and Trembling and an interview! latinamericanliteraturetoday.org

“The nights in these rooms, those cursed nights of unwanted children.” From Nightmare of the Embryos by Mariella Mehr, out in March with New Directions (@NewDirections). harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

Join us virtually on 3/21 for a reading by Maria Stepanova from her new novel THE DISAPPEARING ACT, followed by a conversation with the translator Sasha Dugdale and writer and scholar Sophie Pinkham eventbrite.com/e/transnationa…

We hope you’ll join us tonight for an evening of celebrating I FOUND MYSELF…THE LAST DREAMS by master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz. A conversation between translator Hisham Matar and photographer Diana Matar will be paired with Diana’s photographs.

🌴🪐We're so excited to share that Marcia Douglas's THE JAMAICA KOLLECTION OF THE SHANTE DREAM ARKIVE is a finalist for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. "What words can properly convey the magic of this book?"—The OCM Judges

A pop of color in gray New York: LITHIUM by Malén Denis, translated by Laura Hatry and John Wronoski, is out today! 🐈 “A novel of skillfully wrought interiors.” —Kirkus

Two odes from our forthcoming collection THE COMPLETE ODES OF RICARDO REIS are out now in the NYRB! nybooks.com/articles/2026/…

The @nytimes selected Erik Carter’s cover design of ON THE CLOCK as one of the best book covers of 2025.🍔

This Sunday @LAFCInc is screening MACUNAÍMA directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. The screening will be followed by a post-film discussion with MACUNAÍMA's translator Katrina Dodson and film scholar Patrícia Mourão de Andrade. ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/2294?…

This month’s Book Club is POSTPONED to Tuesday, January 6th. In the new year, we will pick up with Alexis Wright’s CARPENTARIA, an operatic portrait of life in the precariously settled town of Desperance on the northwest coast of Australia. McNally Jackson SoHo, 7pm.

‘Tis the season. ndbooks.com

🌿WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers, is the winner of the 2025 National Book Award in Translated Literature🌿 “WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING gives a new language to think not about hope, but about love.” —Robin Myers

We are thrilled that WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING and ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME are finalists for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Congratulations to all, and we are counting down the minutes until tonight's announcement.

Join us tomorrow, November 14th, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library for an evening of poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, hosted by Patricio Ferrari, and with musical accompaniment by percussionist Nava Dunkelman. More information here: showclix.com/event/world-po…

Join us at Mcnally Jackson Seaport on October 29th with Ariana Harwicz as she launches her novel UNFIT, in conversation with Julia Kornberg. Register here: mcnallyjackson.com/ariana-harwicz…

2025 National Translation Award Poetry Shortlist 🎼CHIMERA by Phoebe Giannisi, translated by Brian Sneeden Thank you to @LitTranslate and congratulations to all!

October 21 at 6 pm Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, NYC Register here: rizzolibookstore.com/we-are-green-a…

October 19 at 2pm Hay Festival Forum, Dallas Register here: hayfestival.com/p-24252-gabrie…

WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING tour starts tomorrow: October 15 at 5 pm 2334 Bowditch Street, Berkeley, CA Award-winning novelist Gabriela Cabezón Cámara will be joined in conversation by Luisina Gentile and Natalia Brizuela. More information here: events.berkeley.edu/clacs/event/30…