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10/29/2025

This week in , an excerpt from “Art and Crime” by Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm (2022), which recounts how Donald Trump demolished historically significant friezes from New York’s Bonwit Teller building—despite having promised them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art—to clear the site for Trump Tower. The story has has sparked renewed public interest, as Trump, now president of the United States, begins demolishing part of the White House to build a controversial new ballroom.

From the authors of False Pictures, Real Money (about the Beltracchi art forgery case), Art & Crime is A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world.

10/28/2025

Happy pub day to the late, great Charley Rosen’s final novel, DRIBBLING A BASKETBALL ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS. A coming-of-age novel that takes us from a very tall boy’s discovery of his love of basketball to a young man who engages in point-shaving while a college player on his way to NBA brilliance with a shadow hanging over him—a book that sheds light on both the sheer beauty and some of the ugliness in the game. Now available wherever fine books are sold.

10/27/2025

Out now: Hal Schrieve’s Radical Q***r Teen Vampires -

“Out of Salem” author Hal Schrieve’s latest novel is a campy YA fantasy about q***r teen vampires simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.

10/27/2025

“The daily rituals of life in Gaza are no longer possible. I used to leave my shoes on a rack by the front door of the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in Gaza, in the Daraj Quarter of the Old City. The white stone walls had pointed arches and a tall octagonal minaret encircled by a carved wooden balcony that was crowned with a crescent. The mosque was built on the foundations of ancient temples to Philistine and Roman deities as well as a Byzantine church. I washed my hands, face and feet at the common water taps, carrying out the ritual purification before prayer, known as wudhu. Inside the hushed interior with its blue-carpeted floor, the cacophony, noise, dust, fumes and frenetic pace of Gaza melted away.

The mosque was destroyed on December 8, 2023, by an Israeli airstrike.”

The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled

10/23/2025

Happy European Literature Night, NYC! Join us at the to hear from a dazzling variety of authors, including Seven Stories’ own Liliana Corobca and Artem Chapeye. Swipe for details on when and where to find them, and we’ll see you tonight!

10/23/2025

On the first anniversary of his passing, our publisher Dan Simon and publisher Hedi El Kholti discuss their friend Gary Indiana. We miss him extraordinarily.

10/22/2025

Seven Stories Press and Words Without Borders are giving away two copies of Krisztina Tóth’s stunning new novel EYE OF THE MONKEY! To enter, follow and and tag a friend in the comments. One winner will be chosen, US shipping only. Giveaway ends November 7.

Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzett, Eye of the Monkey begins in the wake of a devastating civil war that led to the formation of the United Regency, an autocracy in an unnamed European country. The ravages of war are sweeping, and the populace has been divided into segregated zones, where the well-off are under mass surveillance and the poor are phantom presences, confined and ghettoized.

On the verge of a nervous breakdown after being followed by a young man for weeks, Giselle, a history professor at the New University, seeks the help of Dr. Mihály Kreutzer, a psychiatrist who is navigating divorce and the recent death of his mother. They soon begin a torrid love affair, but everything is not what it seems. As Giselle begins to unpack her family history and the possible root of her psychological crisis, Dr. Kreutzer, who has ties to some of the most powerful people in the country, possesses ulterior motives of his own.

In Tóth’s deftly woven, polyphonic, and dystopian novel—full of twists, turns, and treachery—we plumb the depths of a fractured, disturbed, and isolated society, as well as the underbelly of social perversions such a society produces. In this intricate web, stories within stories reveal the complicated lives of women and men who struggle to negotiate the networks of power and poverty that have shaped their lives and their relationships to one another.

10/21/2025

TONIGHT: Krisztina Tóth at Brooklyn Public Library (Free) -

To celebrate the release, we're excited to share an excerpt from the novel, praised by 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature winner László Krasznahorkai: “Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel. … [She] is a magnificent artist; receive her as suc...

10/20/2025

Join us tomorrow night, 10/21, at 7pm for a very special event at Brooklyn Public Library with iconic, celebrated author Krisztina Tóth, in town from Hungary, and Ken Chen, lauded poet and Associate Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College. They will be discussing Tóth’s book EYE OF THE MONKEY, just released in English in a wonderful translation by Ottilie Mulzet.

“Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel. It lies in the nature of her attention, and as this attention seizes upon the world, she then, at one certain point in the world she wishes to portray, zeros in, heads down to the depths and — as if she could do nothing else — opens up this minor, seemingly insignificant detail, which then becomes an impetus for the entire work, illuminating it, as in Eye of the Monkey, tying together what she left behind with what she stands before. Krisztina Tóth is a magnificent artist; receive her as such.”
—László Krasznahorkai, 2025 Nobel Laureate

“Reading The Eye of the Monkey is like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!”
—Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Laureate

“A terrifying novel that reminds us how autocracy’s brutality and stupidity destroy all that is good in life. Eye of the Monkey is unsparing, unforgettable. I read it with my heart in my throat.”
—Merve Emre, contributing writer at The New Yorker

“Remarkably, Toth manages to hold our focus as the story forks in controlled, if mysterious, ways. A book that can be snaking and labyrinthine without sprawling aimlessly is — like an author who can handle elusiveness without opacity or coyness — quite a rare thing. … It’s our fortune that Ottilie Mulzet, a prolific translator of Hungarian, was up to the task of capturing both the strangeness and the poetry of the text.”
—Rebecca Makkai, New York Times Book Review

10/20/2025

10/20/2025

„Egy félelmetes regény, amely arra emlékeztet minket, hogy a politikai önkényuralom brutalitása és ostobasága mindent elpusztít, ami az életben érték. A majom szeme könyörtelen, felejthetetlen regény. A torkomban dobogott a szívem, miközben olvastam."
– Merve Emre, The New Yorker Presents

https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4758-eye-of-the-monkey

10/20/2025

In the run-up to next Tuesday’s stage conversation with Krisztina Tóth at the Brooklyn Library in New York, you can watch Julia Ubrankovics read on the Seven Stories Press Instagram page.
https://www.instagram.com/7storiespress/reels/

In the 12 extracts filmed by Papp Gábor Zsigmond, a first impression of the novel’s characters, society and the twisted turns and trachery can be felt – together with the humour, irony and dark atmosphere of the dystopia that is The Eye of the Monkey. Visit the page every day for the latest extract!
https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4758-eye-of-the-monkey