Recent Happenings

We're mourning the loss of Tim Mohr—writer, DJ, inspired translator from German, and long-time friend of Archipelago—who passed away on March 31st at his Brooklyn home. Vibrant, perceptive, and wickedly funny: Tim brought his whole self into his work as

Congratulations are in order for translator Mira Rosenthal, who brought Tomasz Różycki's moving collection To the Letter into English, published last January. Rosenthal has been awarded the 2025 Found in Translation Award, jointly presented by the Polish Book Institute, the

We are delighted for theologian and poet Christian Lehnert, who has been selected for the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize this year. We are publishing a selection of Lehnert's poetry, Wickerwork, translated and introduced by Richard Sieburth on April 29th. In their comments,

A perceptive conversation between Marilyn Booth, translator of Elias Khoury's As Though She Were Sleeping, and Yasmeen Hanoosh, translator of Khoury's first novel, On the Relations of the Circle (forthcoming from Archipelago), is live in Arablit as part of their "Between

Frankétienne was an artist in the fullest sense of the word, one whose innovation, spiritual worldview, and resolute sense of justice could not be contained. Widely considered the “father of Haitian letters,” his novels, poems, plays, and paintings responded to