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I interviewed Rusana Bardarska about To Essay and its many preoccupations. Her responses were pleasingly expansive. open.substack.com/pub/threeperce…

We will be hosting our first virtual author salon this Friday, March 20th at 1 PM EST. Attendees will be able to hear readings and chat with To Essay author Rusana Bardarska and translators Zornitsa Hristova and Christopher Buxton. Email Chad.Post@rochester.edu or DM to RSVP!

@gregorymconway Feel free to hit us up!

There is still time to prepare for Icelandic Autumn.

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Our spring/summer catalog is up on Edelweiss! Reviewers and booksellers can feel free to get in touch via email/dm for review copies.

Particularly excited about translations from Urdu openletterbooks.org/collections/20… and Bulgarian openletterbooks.org/collections/ne… from @open_letter !

Look what came in the mail! How exciting to receive book mail from the lovely presses hard at work on stellar translations. Thanks to @open_letter and @archipelagobks for sending me works they thought would be up my alley. I'll read them cozily with Moshi at my side.

@nichollsm86 😍

new book mail is a book I have been looking for, writing by surrealist writer/artist Remedios Varo from Wakefield Press. Also an order from @open_letter sale last month, I can always find a gem to read from them. 📚✨

Mazdak’s message is just as relevant in 2026 as it was 1,600 years ago: power should be in the hands of the people, not greedy grifters who work the system for their own benefit. Reviewers and booksellers, please reach out for advance review copies. openletterbooks.org/products/fortr…

It’s arrived! Translated from the Urdu by Sana R. Chaudhry, FORTRESS is the story of Mazdak, the first socialist revolutionary in history. This classic work from Fahmida Riaz—who lived in exile because of her own revolutionary impulses—is finally available in English.

In case you need a distraction today (as we all do) check out Chad Post’s latest look at the translation database, including a rundown of French literature in translation and the most translated languages since 2008. threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/using-data-a…

James on Elisa Shua Dusapin’s “unofficial trilogy” with Open Letter: “The range of emotion is extensive, from the thrumming disquiet of her breakout debut, Winter in Sokcho, to the minor-key sadness of The Pachinko Parlor, to the simmering tenderness of Vladivostok Circus.”

The latest episode of Life on Books is wholly dedicated to Open Letter! Check out their recommendations for something to grab during our 40% off sale. 👀 youtu.be/iXAz6yYJ_l8?si…

@damiankelleher Robin is working on another book of Mónica-Ramón Ríos's for us! 🤫

A Book, Read, No. 10 of 2026. Mónica Ramón Ríos - Cars on Fire (translated by Robin Myers, published by @open_letter ) Loved it. Really loved it. Literature, death, lust, suicide, playful character, plot and structure games. I want to read everything she’s ever written.

@damiankelleher DAMIAN DO WE HAVE NEWS FOR YOU

Best publisher. Shame about it being US only, but best publisher

Stu the readers 10 for 2025 - Winstonsdad's Blog my books of the year has books from ⁦@open_letter⁩ ⁦@7StoriesPress⁩ ⁦@FaberBooks⁩ winstonsdad.blog/2025/12/28/stu…

After a day of wrangling with settings, international shipping is once again LIVE at openletterbooks.org! We love you, and we are sorry it took so long 🙏🥳 (Shipping rates still too [tariff-chokehold] high? Consider ordering from indie bookstores in the UK and EU!❤️)

Some great reads on our list of 2025 favorite literature in translation! It was hard to choose. Check out those gems of literary presses for more titles. globaleuropejournal.org/2025/12/global…

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The critically acclaimed novelist Dinaw Mengestu has been elected to the presidency of PEN America, the 103-year-old writers organization whose mission is to celebrate literature and defend freedom of expression. More: pen.org/press-release/…