Elsewhere Editions, Archipelago Books' brand-new international children’s imprint, will launch this spring, “devoted to translating imaginative works of children’s literature from all corners of the world.” Ahead of that launch, mastermind editors Jill Schoolman and Kendall Storey offer a special preview of the imprint’s first three titles: Claude Ponti - auteur/illustrateur's My Valley, Roger Mello's […]

Peter Wortsman, whose translations of selections of Franz Kafka were just highly praised by the BBC, will be joined by poet Geoffrey O'Brien to discuss the new release and muse on all things literary, artistic, and Kafkaesque at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn October 20th, 2016 at 7 pm.  Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka gathers new translations […]

Newcomers, the first volume of Lojze Kovacic’s three-part autobiography, opens in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their Swiss home and their eventual resettlement in Slovenia. Kovacic, writing as a 10-year-old, describes his family’s journey with uncanny naiveté and in a style that is clear, direct and moving. Translator Michael Biggins and Gabriel […]

Please join New Directions, NYRB Classics, and Archipelago Books for a French Poetry Party on Bastille Day. You’ll find us rejoicing in great, lusty, and revelatory French verse in the courtyard on what we hope will be a hot summer’s night. “Bring glory to the love-drunk folks at home!”—Charles Baudelaire “Love, something crazy comes to […]