New Directions

Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world. ndbooks on Bluesky and ndpublishing on Instagram.

[New Directions @NewDirections]

BEHOLD! Fall '26, featuring: Olga Ravn, Mathias Énard, Helle Helle, Ingeborg Bachmann, Amparo Dávila, Mirabai, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Enrique Lihn, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, and Solvej Balle.
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[Book Post @BookPostUSA]

Take a cooling summer walk with 17th-C poet Bashō, @NewDirections https://t.co/uLeb4K0ZCE

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.” Read Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp by Kathryn Scanlan, out this week on our website. https://t.co/ckhOegrQeK

[New Directions @NewDirections]

Hello Portland! This Tuesday, Powell's Books is hosting a special panel discussion about our forthcoming FIVE, a collection of novellas by César Aira. Featuring Jeff VanderMeer, Cari Luna, and Kimberly King Parsons!
@Powells
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[New Directions @NewDirections]

Giada Scodellaro reads "Lateness"—an excerpt from her novel Ruins, Child— on the BRICK podcast (also published in BRICK issue 117).

Links for listening:
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[New Directions @NewDirections]

Fun fact! Bob Odenkirk is a fan of Solvej Balle.

Her series ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is mentioned in this interview: https://t.co/YnQBCUTP7G

[New Directions @NewDirections]

TUNE IN! Solvej Balle discusses her series ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME on CBC's Bookends with Mattea Roach

Podcast link: https://t.co/Ojpem8aS7S
CBC Books web feature: https://t.co/3DMN2h7oAs

[New Directions @NewDirections]

Tonight Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC: Keith Ridgway & @NYerFiction Deputy Editor Cressida Leyshon!

https://t.co/lmDMNY3W6h

[New Yorker Fiction @NYerFiction]

Reserve a spot to see our deputy fiction editor, Cressida Leyshon, speak with Keith Ridgway about his new novel, "Dooneen," at Rizzoli Bookstore, Thursday, June 18. https://t.co/EMqMe3Kknf

[New Directions @NewDirections]

Check out this new interview of Giada Scodellaro by Colette Estelle for Public Seminar, where they discuss the inspirations for RUINS, CHILD!

https://t.co/jite5S7AeC

[New Directions @NewDirections]

🎉🎉Congratulations to Charlotte Mandell! Winner of the 2026 Translation Prize for Fiction for her translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS. https://t.co/fvTjQNZeEs

[Granta @GrantaMag]

For our spring issue, Granta goes to Scandinavia. Read the issue for free online for the next five days.

https://t.co/ZFBYde1iQy

[4Columns @4_columns]

“Rather than glamorizing the West or sentimentalizing the East, Qian is highly attuned to the delusions and misunderstandings that impede cross-cultural understanding.”—Andrew Chan writes about Qian Zhongshu’s 1947 novel “Fortress Besieged” @NewDirections https://t.co/yA9PNOa2Ml

[LatAmLitToday @LatAmLitToday]

“What he writes both is his life and isn’t…”

Read an excerpt from Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING (@NewDirections), translated by Robin Myers, winner of the 2025 @nationalbook Award in Translated Literature:

https://t.co/WbSrCMnQ9D

[julia kornberg @sputnikon3]

I wrote about the reissue of José Emilio Pacheco’s poetry by @NewDirections ! Pictured here in a delightful translation by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston https://t.co/tg4wVcr5Bu

[New Directions @NewDirections]

Please join us on May 14 at 7 pm for an evening of conversation about Copi’s CITY OF RATS. Seating is first come first serve, no RSVP needed.

[Variety @Variety]

'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' Broadway Revival Coming in 2027 From Tony-Winning 'Fun Home' Director Sam Gold (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/j4DTfirlsS

[pk @quartermass]

I built this website: https://t.co/gRFgITfCUE; it is a database of every book/edition released by New Directions going back to the beginning.

[New Directions @NewDirections]

Join Joshua Cohen and Michael Hofmann in conversation about Koeppen tomorrow at Rizzoli Bookstore!

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[New Directions @NewDirections]

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Joshua Cohen’s introduction to DEATH IN ROME out now in @parisreview :
“Koeppen’s technique bears beauty as entr’acte between the world’s recurrent slaughters.”

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country. https://t.co/OTVRQ0BLKH