Hot News This Week
July 6, 2023
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This week, Haymarket Books published Our History Has Always Been Contraband, an anthology in defense of Black studies edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Colin Kaepernick.
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“A really interesting collection of short stories throughout the Filipina American diaspora. These stories showcase family legacy and future hope through all the sisters, cousins, mothers, aunts, and grandmas.” — Audrey Huang, Belmont Books (Belmont, MA)
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| Literary Translation in the New York Times Book Review
As reported in the New York Times, the translation-themed issue of Sunday’s Book Review was inspired in part by Daniel Hahn’s Catching Fire: A Translation Diary. Hahn himself wrote a piece about picture books in translation for the issue, and several other Consortium titles were featured throughout—
The Garden of Seven Twilights, Miquel de Palol’s “devious and thrilling” novel translated by Adrian Nathan West, was reviewed in full, and a write-up of Happy Stories, Mostly noted that Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s stories, translated by Tiffany Tsao, “vary widely, mixing realism and fabulism.” Lastly, Oksana Lutsyshyna’s Ivan and Phoebe, translated by Nina Murray, was featured in the NYTBR “Newly Published” column (the novel also received a nice NPR review recently).
Happy Stories, Mostly
by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, trans. Tiffany Tsao
Feminist Press • June 2023 • 9781952177057
Ivan and Phoebe
by Oksana Lutsyshyna, trans. Nina Murray
Deep Vellum Publishing • June 2023 • 9781646052622
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| Dragon Palace in the New Yorker
“The Kitchen God,” a short story from Hiromi Kawakami’s Dragon Palace, translated by Ted Goossen, appears in the July 10 & 17 issue of the New Yorker; Kawakami was also interviewed by the magazine about her story, which finds a housewife living with three-faced creatures, strange appetites, and communalism in Japan. Dragon Palace is out in September.
Dragon Palace
by Hiromi Kawakami, trans. Ted Goossen
Stone Bridge / MONKEY • September 2023 • 9781737625353
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, July 11.
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| | The Last Election
by Andrew Yang and Stephen Marche
Akashic Books • September 2023 • 9781636141503
★ “Yang and Marche masterfully ratchet the tension to near-unbearable levels. The outcome, in this worthy 21st-century update of the 1962 classic Seven Days in May, is just possible enough to give readers nightmares.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Clifton brings to vivid life the intersections of the sacred and the secular and the everyday and the extraordinary with her trademark simplicity and precision. . . . This essential edition is an excellent reminder of the poet’s inimitable gifts.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Monster-Scared
by Betina Birkjær, illus. Zarah Juul
Transit Children’s Editions • September 2023 • 9781945492747
★ “A sympathetic exploration of the dance between agency and anxiety in conquering a common childhood fear . . . a refreshing departure from stories with similar themes.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | The Impostor
by Edgard Telles Ribeiro, trans. Kim M. Hastings and Margaret A. Neves
Bellevue Literary Press • June 2023 • 9781954276154
“Mr. Ribeiro’s deft and insinuating storytelling captures the uncanny feeling of slippage.” — Wall Street Journal
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“The real charm of How to Make Friends is that all this low-key psychological drama unfurls in humorous photographed dioramas full of pipe-cleaner objects and felted miniature toys.” — Wall Street Journal
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“Full of understated tension and exacting detail. The characters feel both recognizable and one-of-a-kind.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“These stories, by a Canadian novelist, poet, and musician . . . peer keenly into the penumbra surrounding death.” — New Yorker
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“In Wolff’s edgy, icy thriller, a brusque MI5 officer with an ‘impressive ability to kneel on the bruise’ finds himself spying on other spies.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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“In the best Sapphic vampire romance novel since Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 classic, Carmilla, a Victorian sex worker wakes in a cobwebbed manor to find herself a creature out of a nightmare.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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| | Snail Trail
by Ziggy Hanaor, illus. Christos Kourtoglou
Cicada Books • May 2023 • 9781800660311
“Come for the empathetic storytelling. Stay to pore over the inventive ways in which the Greek illustrator Kourtoglou anthropomorphizes snails.” — New York Times Book Review
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“Two seasoned activists, looking at lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests, offer a blueprint for creating social movements that are grounded in compassion.” — New York Times Book Review
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“Too many management books rest on a vague idea that has been stretched to breaking point. . . . What a relief, then, to read a book that breaks the mould.” — The Economist
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“In Rising Up, [Kolhatkar] breaks down how media traditionally presents the POV of privilege. More importantly, she describes how narrative can be reclaimed by BIPOC, minorities and women to create a new, more inclusive, narrative. Her clear, engaging writing makes this a page-turner.” — Karrie Hyatt, Vroman’s Bookstore (Pasadena, CA)
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A story on Green Card Voices, a Minneapolis nonprofit and Consortium publisher, ran in the Star Tribune on June 23.
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Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Flare, Corona (BOA Editions), was interviewed on WICN’s Inquiry on June 22.
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