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¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Quino!The warm, witty, and mischievous mind behind Mafalda would have been 94 today. We’ll publish Fr...
07/17/2026

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Quino!

The warm, witty, and mischievous mind behind Mafalda would have been 94 today.

We’ll publish Frank Wynne’s English translation of Mafalda: Book Two (strip pictured above) October 20.

A few fall galleys in our hands ⭐️ Julio Cortázar’s From Julio, translated by Anne McLean and Sarah Moses, coming Septem...
07/07/2026

A few fall galleys in our hands ⭐️

Julio Cortázar’s From Julio, translated by Anne McLean and Sarah Moses, coming September 22.

Sevgi Soysal’s Walking, translated by Maureen Freely, coming October 27.

Scholastique Mukasonga’s Murmura from the Hills, translated by Mark Polizzotti, coming November 10.

Elias Khoury’s On the Relations of the Circle, translated by Yasmeen Hannah coming December 1.

From the desk of Mark Polizzotti… Mark has translated more than sixty books from French, including five books with Archi...
06/08/2026

From the desk of Mark Polizzotti…

Mark has translated more than sixty books from French, including five books with Archipelago. His first with us was Marguerite Duras’ Yann Andréa Steiner, an ethereal little volume brought out just a few years after our founding. And this fall will see two more of Mark’s superb translations, Schoalstique Mukasonga’s Murmurs From the Hills and Jean Echenoz’ Jérôme Lindon.

“My joy is of another sort, it’s like a long-awaited encounter, or like a tree you see from very far away, on the horizo...
05/18/2026

“My joy is of another sort, it’s like a long-awaited encounter, or like a tree you see from very far away, on the horizon, and which you finally reach after walking and walking, and the tree gets greener and more beautiful as you approach.” —Julio Cortázar

On September 22nd we’ll publish a big book of Julio Cortázar’s letters, spanning 1937 - 1966. In them you’ll find a community of remarkable thinkers. Cortázar corresponds with Luis Buñuel, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Ocampo, and Carlos Fuentes (to name a few). He never kept a diary or write a memoir, so these letters let us eavesdrop on a twinkling mind, its private thoughts, hopes, joys.

Available today is our latest novel from Colombian master Héctor Abad, whose prose Dwight Garner has described as “elast...
04/21/2026

Available today is our latest novel from Colombian master Héctor Abad, whose prose Dwight Garner has described as “elastic and alive.” In Anne McLean’s immersive translation, we meet the unconventional, art-obsessed Córdoba, a priest “as devoted to film and music as he is to God” in Krista Cerezo’s review.

Out now: Last Stops of the Night Journey by Milo De Angelis, translated from the Italian by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susa...
04/14/2026

Out now: Last Stops of the Night Journey by Milo De Angelis, translated from the Italian by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart. A graceful (and bilingual!) collection that feels particularly lucent, insistent, searching and direct.

Last Stops of the Night Journey by Milo De Angelis is a profound and haunting exploration of memory, mortality, and the human condition. Drawing from his decades of teaching in a high-security prison and his encounters with figures and shadows of the past, De Angelis crafts a forensic accounting, where love, loss, exile, and redemption intertwine. — Peter Gizzi .g.gizzi

Read excerpts in The Brooklyn Rail’s April issue and in Bomb’s Spring 2026 issue.

Minna Zallman Proctor’s impeccable translation of Pavese’s The Leucothea Dialogues has been awarded the PEN Translation ...
04/01/2026

Minna Zallman Proctor’s impeccable translation of Pavese’s The Leucothea Dialogues has been awarded the PEN Translation Prize!

From the judges’ citation: “Minna Zallman Proctor’s vigorous retranslation . . . stands out from a superb shortlist as a brilliant meditation on, as well as in, translation. Pavese’s moving book neither retells Greek myths nor simply gives a new spin on the old stories: it draws on those myths, as though drawing water from an inexhaustible well.”

The first in a series of seven, Xiong Liang’s Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Ro...
03/06/2026

The first in a series of seven, Xiong Liang’s Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts, introduces us to a daring young girl named Little Yu. When Little Yu happens upon an enchanted forest on her last day in the countryside, it’s the towering trees and mystical lichen that beckon her inside. 🍃

“She enters the wilderness with curiosity, not fear, and soon befriends the unique forest dwellers guarding their home. Embarking on a fantastical journey that recalls elements of Lewis Carroll and Hayao Miyazaki, Little Yu must rely on instinct—and help from her mystical new friends—to overcome obstacles and return home.” —Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

Out from Archipelago’s children’s book imprint .editions this spring!

The first in a series of seven, Xiong Liang’s Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Ro...
03/05/2026

The first in a series of seven, Xiong Liang’s Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts, introduces us to a daring young girl named Little Yu. When Little Yu happens upon an enchanted forest on her last day in the countryside, it’s the towering trees and mystical lichen that beckon her inside. 🍃

“She enters the wilderness with curiosity, not fear, and soon befriends the unique forest dwellers guarding their home. Embarking on a fantastical journey that recalls elements of Lewis Carroll and Hayao Miyazaki, Little Yu must rely on instinct—and help from her mystical new friends—to overcome obstacles and return home.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Out from Archipelago’s children’s book imprint .editions this spring!

In October, we’ll publish Walking, our second novel by Sevgi Soysal, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Walk...
02/18/2026

In October, we’ll publish Walking, our second novel by Sevgi Soysal, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Walking observes the braided lives of Elâ and Memet, two young people growing up in 1970s Yenişehir. Elâ is a girl swept up in the discomfort and excitement of becoming a woman. Memet is a boy who wanders the labyrinthine streets of Tarlabaşı, thinking of dance halls, his guitar, and Pl***oy. As their stories converge, a peopled vision of Turkey cascades before us: conversations give way to fragments of nature and beauty found along city streets. Soysal writes as one uncovering and restoring a fresco, tending to its bright and unpredictable edges.

That Soysal’s work is often categorized as Turkish coup literature sometimes detracts from the breadth of her literary creativity and unapologetic feminism . . . Dawn is daringly explicit about the tribulations of the female body, from accounts of sexual assault in prison to the shame women feel about menstruation . . . Freely’s translation is clean, colloquial and confident.
— Ayten Tartici, New York Times on Dawn

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