Please join us at Community Bookstore where Kalpana Raina will discuss her collaborative translation of For Now, It Is Night by Hari Krishna Kaul. Kalpana will be in conversation with professor, editor, and novelist Adam Dalva. Kalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive with extensive financial, […]
An evening of poetry with Tomasz Różycki and translator Mira Rosenthal at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn. This book tour was made possible thanks to support from the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
Join us for a virtual discussion about our new release - Sevgi Soysal's stunning 1975 novel Dawn. The book will be presented by the translator Maureen Freely, in conversation with Merve Emre. The event is hosted by Community Bookstore, in partnership with the Third Place Books and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith. It will […]
Join a virtual conversation between Will Chancellor, Ezra Goldstein and Philip Roughton celebrating his translation of Halldór Laxness's Salka Valka - a feminist coming-of-age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny industrial town. The event is hosted by Community Bookstore […]
Join Armine Kotin Mortimer and Martha Cooley as they discuss Christine Angot's An Impossible Love, hosted by Community Books. This event will take place virtually on April 19th at 7:30pm ET. Register for the event here. An Impossible Love by Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a social ball in […]
Join us for a conversation and reading with Ida Jessen at Community Bookstore in Park Slope. Ida will present her new novel, A Change of Time. Ida Jessen is widely considered to be the master of psychological realism in contemporary Danish fiction. Having made her debut with the short-story collection Under Sten (Under Stone) in 1989, […]
Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor Héctor Abad visits Community Bookstore in Brooklyn to discuss his novel The Farm with journalist and author Michael Greenberg. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion. Héctor Abad is one of Colombia’s leading writers. Born in 1958, he grew up in Medellín, where he studied medicine, philosophy […]
Join us for a conversation between Norwegian author Hanne Ørstavik and Kerri Arsenault of the National Book Critics Circle about Ørstavik's novel Love. We hope to see you there!
Join us Thursday, September 28th at Community Bookstore to hear Donald Nicholson-Smith and Christopher Winks discuss Abdellatif Laâbi and Victor Serge and examine these writers' enduring influence and ability to keep writing under repressive regimes. In Praise of Defeat, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, is the first English-language collection of Abdellatif Laâbi's poetry, spanning six decades of political and […]
Named after Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s own sharp self-description, Vulture in a Cage is the most extensive collection of the 11th century Hebrew poet’s works ever to be published in English. Weighty poems of praise, lament, and complaint sit alongside devotional poetry, love poetry, descriptive meditations on nature, and epigrams. Raymond P. Scheindlin, translator and editor of Vulture in a […]
