New or forthcoming Slovak literature arrived today. Both look very good. #SeagullBooks

Recent arrivals: Czech writer Jan Němec's stories written in the first years of the Ukraine war, Drndić's account of her first year in Toronto, and Khoury's first novel, due in December. #seagullbooks, #istrosbooks, @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

It's Women in Translation Month and although some of my review reading does not fit the bill, I will be trying to get some #WITmonth contributions in. Starting with this wild and weird collection, The Minotaur's Daughter by Slovak poet Eva Luka, tr. by James Sutherland-Smith. #seagullbooks

Better late than never: 2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @tracepress.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social #seagullbooks, #newdirections
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Yes I should be reading book already on my shelves, but I'm also trying to order some of the titles that have been sitting on my waitlists. @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social #Seagullbooks

New arrivals. There's always room for more books! #seagullbooks @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Fighting fire with fire, maybe? On this gloomy morning in these gloomy times… Laszlo Krasznahorkai nonfiction in rural china! From @seagullbooks and translator @ottiliemulzet Ottilie Mulzet, Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens #nobelprize #bookstagram #laszlokrasznahorkai #nonfiction

ICYMI I wrote about a selection of poems by German poet Durs Grünbein, translated by Karen Leeder
Short listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize #SeagullBooks

In that strange, that golden light: Psyche Running – Selected Poems, 2005–2022 by Durs Grünbein roughghosts.com/2025/04/26/i...

‘I thought femininity was something that could be learned’: Antiboy by Valentijn Hoogenkamp #SeagullBooks #PrideList roughghosts.com/2024/12/31/i...

In that strange, that golden light: Psyche Running – Selected Poems, 2005–2022 by Durs Grünbein, translated by Karen Leeder #SeagullBooks
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“While all our faculties seem to dimmish and fail us, the imagination grows to excess and takes up all possible space.” – Giorgio Agamben #ItalianLit #SeagullBooks
A mirror to a life: Self-Portrait in the Studio by Giorgio Agamben roughghosts.com/2025/05/31/a...

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Writers Anonymous? My #bookreview for "The First Line (The French List)" by Jean-Marie Laclavetine on my #bookblog now. Thanks @seagullbooks for the @this_is_edelweiss ARC. #2025NewReleaseChallenge #ParisinJuly2025 #20BooksofSummer2025 #bookstagram

#fridayreads Urs Widmer's 'Book of My Father' (@seagullbooks), Dyer's 'Zona' (@VintageAnchor), & Lish's 'Peru' (@Dalkey_Archive)

I should pull words out of my body, only in pain, or in fear, packed together like stones in the mountains.

- Jaccottet (@seagullbooks)

How am I supposed to do anything else today, @seagullbooks? <a href="http://t.co/57kqr62UCi" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://t.co/57kqr62UCi

"We age ourselves before we age," writes Georges Perros in Paper Collage (trans. John Taylor, @seagullbooks).

Exciting to see @seagullbooks bringing the great Christoph Ransmayr back into English. <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo22177789.html" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo22177789.html <a href="http://t.co/d8NumUdylP" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://t.co/d8NumUdylP

Philippe Jaccottet's OBSCURITY is finally available in English, thanks to @seagullbooks and Tess Lewis. <a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo22176579.html" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo22176579.html

@infinitetexts @seagullbooks They sure are.

November 2022: (I know, he's problematic) Giorgio Agamben, Hölderlin's Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 (translated by Alta Price for @seagullbooks) https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781803091150

October 2022: Thomas Bernhard, The Rest is Slander: Five Stories (translated by Douglas Robertson for @seagullbooks) https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781803090672

Good article on the importance of @seagullbooks. #translation #lit https://t.co/u4zv0lAQGe

We can make no distinction between the defense of the works of the past, the defense of sexual pleasure, the defense of written language, and the defense of art.

- Pascal Quignard, THE ROVING SHADOWS (t. by Chris Turner, @seagullbooks)