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New Vessel Press is an independent publishing house devoted to fiction and narrative nonfiction in t The most important thing is the quality of the work itself.
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New Vessel Press, founded in New York City in 2012, is an independent publishing house specializing in fiction and narrative nonfiction in translation. In bringing books from other countries to English-speaking readers, we offer captivating, thought-provoking works with beautifully-designed covers and high production values. We scour the globe looking for the best stories, knowing that only a frac

tion of the books published in the United States each year are translations. That leaves a lot of great literature still to be discovered. At New Vessel Press, we believe that knowledge of a multitude of cultures and literatures enriches our lives by offering passageways to understand and embrace the world. We also regard literary translation as both craft and art, enabling us to traverse borders and open minds. We are committed to books that offer erudition and enjoyment, that stimulate and scintillate, that transform and transport. And of course, what matters most is not where the authors hail from, or what language they write in. And hence our name. We publish great books, just in a new vessel. Our books have received a wide array of accolades from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to The New Yorker and O, The Oprah Magazine. We look forward to bringing the world’s great literature to ever more readers.

11/01/2024

THE PROPAGANDIST by Cécile Desprairies is "extraordinary," says the Historical Novel Society of the "autobiographical novel by Desprairies, a historian who specializes in Germanic civilization and author of several historical accounts of the Vichy period. The book traces Lucie and other relatives who create and disseminate N**i propaganda, design posters and write anti-Semitic slogans, and organize a 1941 exhibit that portrays Jews as interlopers and threats." Translated by Natasha Lehrer.
https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-propagandist/

10/30/2024

Fascinating review of THE PROPAGANDIST by Cécile Desprairies and translated by Natasha Lehrer: "Above all a love story: a blazing and uneasy romance with fascism . . . an eerie reminder of how deeply entrenched fascism remains in Europe. In recent decades, with the rise of far-right parties across the continent—and notably in Germany—this political tide has felt like quaint regression, doubling back on old and tired history, a defeated cause. But THE PROPAGANDIST suggests that N**ism has never really faded."—Miriam Gordis in Lux Magazine

La Propagandiste traces a family romance with the far right

10/29/2024

Author Sergei Lebedev delivers an eloquent plea for justice and commemorating the victims of Russian political crimes. Speaking in Amsterdam, he underscores a key element of his forthcoming novel THE LADY OF THE MINE: "I see a clear connection between the impunity of Soviet crimes and criminals and Russia's aggression against Ukraine." Watch https://www.youtube.com/live/iALuDI0tBwQ

10/24/2024

THE PROPAGANDIST is featured again in The New Yorker, this time on its list of "The Best Books" of notable new fiction. "Deftly translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer, this début novel offers a thoroughgoing inventory of French complicity with the crimes of N**i occupiers during the Second World War. . . . The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation," Leslie Camhi writes of the chilling book by Cécile Desprairies.

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

10/23/2024

"An electrifying tour de force," is how Publishers Weekly describes Sergei Lebedev's new novel, THE LADY OF THE MINE, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, in a STARRED review. "In the transfixing latest from Russian writer Lebedev, the ghosts of wars past are exhumed in 2014 eastern Ukraine . . . juxtaposes stark and horrifying present-day images, such as bodies falling from a passenger plane shot down by Russian forces, with lyrical impressions."
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781954404304

10/22/2024

THE HEBREW TEACHER by Maya Arad has been chosen as the Community Read for next week's Jewish Book & Arts Festival at Houston's Evelyn Rubenstein JCC—three mesmerizing novellas translated for New Vessel Press by Booker Prize winner Jessica Cohen.
https://erjcchouston.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket #/instances/a0FVu000007rgt9MAA/sectionGroups/a0bVu000004yv9DIAQ

10/18/2024

Celebrating publication of THE PROPAGANDIST with author Cécile Desprairies in Paris. Writing in The New Yorker, Leslie Camhi calls Desprairies's book about her mother's unapologetic service to the Third Reich "at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation . . . allowing readers to identify with the human foibles of characters on the wrong side of history, while never excusing them."

https://newvesselpress.com/books/the-propagandist/

10/15/2024

Visit the New Vessel Press display at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 6.0, B47. We’re meeting with publishers and literary agents to find distinctive new books from around the globe.

10/15/2024

https://newvesselpress.com/books/the-propagandist/

10/11/2024

The New Yorker praises the "mordant intimacy" of THE PROPAGANDIST. Leslie Camhi writes: "In her début novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family’s real-life collaboration during the Second World War . . . The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation . . . allowing readers to identify with the human foibles of characters on the wrong side of history, while never excusing them."

In her début novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family’s real-life collaboration during the Second World War.

10/09/2024

French historian Cécile Desprairies tells The New York Times that her decision to end the secrecy surrounding her mother's collaboration with the N**i occupation of France broke taboos and infuriated her family. "Desprairies's novel, THE PROPAGANDIST, is full of so many secrets that it's a wonder she managed to write it at all," Tobias Grey writes in the Times about Natasha Lehrer's translation for New Vessel Press.

Cécile Desprairies’s novel, ‘The Propagandist,’ was also inspired by her mother, who made art and slogans for Vichy France and its N**i leaders.

10/08/2024

Published today by New Vessel Press: THE PROPAGANDIST, translated by Natasha Lehrer. "Cécile Desprairies’ extraordinary work is a cross between the dispassionate inquiry of a historian and a family memoir . . . stand[s] out from the growing library of works focused on the N**i era . . . Her readers . . . cannot but be mesmerized."—The Arts Fuse

https://artsfuse.org/298950/book-review-the-propagandist/

10/01/2024

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, coming soon from New Vessel Press: "A thoughtful, provocative, playful, and truly original exploration of bodily aesthetics and the factors that define them. A wondrous and important book."—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood and Body Work
https://newvesselpress.com/books/ugliness/

09/27/2024

Ready for the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday? Visit New Vessel Press in Booth 430 near Brooklyn Borough Hall for discounts on all our books.

09/27/2024

"Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish state . . . These stories ask big questions about the future of Israel and of Jews in the English-speaking world."—The Jewish Chronicle on THE HEBREW TEACHER

Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish state

09/23/2024

Israeli author Maya Arad and Booker Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen discuss their work together on THE HEBREW TEACHER and Arad's forthcoming novel HAPPY NEW YEARS at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, this Thursday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m.

Fall 2024 The series Contemporary Israeli Voices was initiated, is curated and has been organized by Dalit Katz, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. The series showcases the most contemporary voices in Israeli society especially in the arts: literature, films and TV shows. The series was conc...

09/19/2024

THE HEBREW TEACHER by Maya Arad has been chosen as the "community read" by Houston's Evelyn Rubenstein JCC for its annual book and arts festival in November. Arad will speak in Houston about her book, translated by Jessica Cohen,as part of a nationwide tour organized by the Jewish Book Council.

The Jewish Herald-Voice - Houston's Jewish Newspaper

09/13/2024

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal, coming soon from New Vessel Press. "Hilal has managed to distort beauty and to beautify ugliness with her probing narrative and astute gaze. This is a profound, political, engrossing work."—Aysegul Savas, author of The Anthropologists. Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer.
https://newvesselpress.com/books/ugliness/

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Click below to hear Jean-Philippe Blondel talk about his latest novel CAFÉ UNFILTERED, an ode to the magic of the French café coming on July 11. Dedicated to singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega who finds it "finely drawn . . . charming and engrossing."

Distant Fathers/discussion with Ann Goldstein and Marta Barone

Watch this insightful discussion of DISTANT FATHERS by Marina Jarre—"a beautifully ingenious memoir, saturated in the history of the European 20th century"—with translator Ann Goldstein and Italian novelist Marta Barone, sponsored by Rizzoli Bookstore.

UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev is SPELLBINDING: "This is a parable of Putin’s Russia, with memories stretching back into the era of Stalin and Hitler, with the searing awareness that no moral progress has been made since those days of horror. Spellbinding." —A. N. Wilson, author of Victoria: A Life; Tolstoy: A Biography and Wise Virgin https://newvesselpress.com/books/untraceable/