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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 11h

Yesterday we published Selma Asotić's debut poetry collection, Say Fire, and Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues. Very different works, but equally arresting.

Check them out: archipelagobooks.org/books/

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 14d

Last chance for 40% off a stack of your own... use the code FALLFLASHSALE until 11pm tonight.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 14d

For the latest On Our Nightstands, co–editor-in-chief @njdames.bsky.social recommends The Leucothea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social).

On Our Nightstands: September 2025 - Public Books

A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.

www.publicbooks.org

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 15d

"Aidan Rooney’s terrific translation from the French conveys the heroine’s profound despair and snarky resilience. Célia is opinionated, vulnerable, mordantly funny . . . For Célia, to post is to be."

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Fiction: Emmelie Prophète’s ‘Cécé’

Plus Claire Adam’s “Love Forms” and Kiran Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.”

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 19d

sale time! take 40% off our backlist with the code FALLFLASHSALE when you shop now through October 1st at archipelagobooks.org! Happy National Translation Month (aka every month to us)!

Archipelago Books - Contemporary & Classic World Literature

Brooklyn-based not-for-profit publisher dedicated to promoting cross-cultural exchange through international literature in translation since 2003.

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grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social · 22d

A Haitian novel from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social about survival by any means: Cece by Emmelie Prophete (translated by Aidan Rooney):
1streading.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/c...

Cécé

Emmelie Prophète is a Haitian writer who has published six novels, one of which (Le Testament des solitudes, translated as Blue by Tina Kover) has already appeared in English. Whereas Blue was her …

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 21d

“Someday, / someone will stand before you, and you’ll / realize / time is just a trick by which the sun renews / its vow to the flowers.”
—Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 22d

"In many ways, Cécé reflects, the Cité is a microcosm of the world, with its brutal power structures, ruthlessness, and breakdown of the law.” Benoit Landon reviews CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. @aidanrooney.bsky.social , @archipelagobooks.bsky.social ): wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 28d

We're having a party! Tonight at Cafe Gitane in Brooklyn, with lots of wine and some glorious platters of South Indian fare.

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Tickets also available at the door.

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 29d

“The herons with their silver throats /
The star that drives its pulse into the gravel
Around the icy stillness of the pool.”

From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published in April with @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.

The Night is Far Spent, by Christian Lehnert

We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · 29d

Are you in New York City with a kid or 2? Come by The New York Public Library's Chatham Square branch in Chinatown today for a storytime and collage activity with the artist Xiong Liang. We'll publish Xiong's marvelous TAKE A WALK WITH THE WIND at the end of the month. 3pm sharp, 33 East Broadway.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · Sep 10

Two new book reviews at On the Seawall! The first is on Issa Quincy's Absence (@twodollarradio.bsky.social), while the second digs into Gerbrand Bakker's The Hairdresser's Son (
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social). Both novels are well worth your time. www.ronslate.com/on-absence-a...

Cover to the novel The Hairdresser's Son, which features an illustration of a white and red bird.

Cover to the novel Absence, which features a grid of black and white photographs on an orange background.

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · Sep 15

NYC & Boston friends: Emmelie Prophète will be traveling from Port-au-Prince for the English release of her book, Cécé!

She'll be at Brooklyn's Flatbush Library on September 23rd
www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/emm...

and Brookline Booksmith on September 24th!
brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...

Emmelie Prophète and Aidan Rooney with Enzo Silon Surin

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · Aug 28

“A path becomes clear / though it still leads to nothing /
Where shadow waits for light to give it form /
Where the word falls silent / ringing false within the void /”

From Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, which was published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in April.

The Night is Far Spent, by Christian Lehnert

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

Rabih Alameddine on our latest Bakker!

"Fucking brilliant . . . The subtlety with which the reader comes to see Simon’s loneliness and desperation is magical (and depressing!). His condition is mine. It’s yours. It’s human."

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Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up

I’ve always read my way through depressions. When my world sucks, I shut the drapes, hide under the cover, and read. And I will read everything: novels, classics, epic fantasy, romance, spy novels,…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · Aug 21

This week's podcast was such fun to record. Discussing all things Mafalda with her translator @terribleman.com and Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin.

🎧https://pod.fo/e/319548
#booksky
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Shakespeare and Company: Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne

In this episode Adam speaks with translator Frank Wynne and Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin about the first-ever English edition of Mafalda, the beloved Argentine comic strip by Quino (Archipe...

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · Aug 12

For @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #11 The Brush (2024) by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Columbian poet. A striking narrative long poem, documenting a rural atrocity through different POV: witnesses, investigators, victims & nature itself. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Cover of The Brush by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon trans from Spanish by Robin Myers.
Orange cover with a coal black abstract art work with orange flames/petals and white thin chains (as roots) by Cecilia Vicuna.
A beautiful edition of this work by always remarkable Archipelago Books

The Witnesses resume:

If we add the fact that the night entered the houses with
them, the night came and went as it pleased, extending its
dark sky as skin is stretched, as God covered the body of
the animals with hides, if we may borrow that image, which
is to say, enveloping it all, if you add the fact of the night in
all its vastness and envelopment, you might come up with
an idea.

The Brush continues:

When the bodies collapse in the town square,
picked out at random,
the houses are left behind with their yards,
their kitchens, their sheets pressed smooth,
receiving, still,
the sun's warm touch.
Things are left with their layers
creased into each other,
asking why,
this,
now,
things don't think before speaking,
they charge ahead
like old trains
derailing.

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · Aug 6

Mafalda again @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Translating Mafalda

Podcast Episode · Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia · 05/08/2025 · 1h 15m

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Americas Society/Council of the Americas @ascoa.bsky.social · Jul 29

For the first time, Argentina’s iconic comic strip character Mafalda is available in English. Book 1 is out, published by
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social.
Translator @terribleman.com joins #LatAmFocus to talk about Mafalda's timeless reflections on global issues and more: www.as-coa.org/mafalda

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Ena Selimović @enaselimo.bsky.social · Jul 8

More stellar news: you can now read two poems from Selma Asotić's collection SAY FIRE (self-translated by the author) forthcoming from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in September—over @thedialmag.bsky.social! www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Poems by Selma Asotić — The Dial

“Aubade with a 104° fever” and “No one writes home”

www.thedial.world

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is tonight! 7pm in the garden at Unnamable Books!

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · Jun 23

Great readings + cold beer in Unnameable Books' garden... come through!

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · Jun 16

You can now read an extract from Walter Siti's Paradise Overload in @grantamag.bsky.social! We'll publish Brian Robert Moore's translation of this Italian classic in 2026.

granta.com/my-poor-pare...

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · Jun 16

Today marks the beginning of our 2025 auction for Elsewhere Editions! Bidding is open now and will close on Wednesday, June 25th, at 9pm ET.

auction.archipelagobooks.org

Em Kettner’s “The Comedian”
Glazed porcelain tile in oil-sealed cherry frame
13x6x1 in

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Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Even if [Mafalda's] unlikely to help Democrats and Republicans get along, her brand of innocent but opinionated curiosity could show the so-called adults in the room how to do better by future generations." —Benjamin P. Russell, The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Mafalda, Argentina’s Very Opinionated Cartoon Heroine, Is Coming to America

www.nytimes.com

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