Hot News This Week
March 27, 2025
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| “Immigrant detention didn’t expand in a vacuum. . . . The Democrats have built this system as much as the Republicans have.”
Public Books recently featured an in-depth conversation with Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books), about immigrant rights and abolition, and why “local and state work is going to be a critical way to fight back and stop the raids . . . and also stop detention expansion.”
Read the interview for more on Unbuild Walls, a timely book that’s “a tool and sophisticated primer for activists, organizers, students, and intellectuals who hope to change the world.”
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| Reddit Reads Harpman
Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men, translated by Ros Schwartz, is one of r/bookclub’s current monthly reading picks. The selection was determined by popular vote among the subreddit’s 210,000 members, and discussion threads for the book have seen hundreds of comments so far.
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| Publishing Triangle Award Finalists
The finalists for the 2025 Publishing Triangle Awards, which honor the best LGBTQ+ books published last year, include seven titles from Consortium publishers:
Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
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| PEN Literary Award Longlisters
Recognizing dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence, the longlists for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards include five titles from Consortium publishers:
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
PEN Translation Prize
- Selamlik by Khaled Alesmael, translated from Arabic by Leri Price (World Editions)
- Verdigris by Michele Mari, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore (And Other Stories)
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“A sublime collection of weirdo short stories from a guy that lived it with remarkable compassion. . . . Funny, compelling, and deranged in all the right places, the exact perfect bites of tastes you just can’t place. I look forward to more!” — Seth Tucker, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
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“Stunning. This is a collection to pick up if you're looking for something entirely out of the ordinary, which has far greater depth to it than it would like you to see at first glance.” — Frederick Rossero, Oblong Books (Millerton, NY)
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| | A Fix of Light
by Kel Menton
Little Island Books • May 2025 • 9781915071644
★ “Are [Hanan’s] new powers real magic or just another manifestation of his psychosis? . . . Always demonstrating a healthy respect for mental illness and Irish legend, this atmospheric read is an all-around masterpiece.” — Booklist
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“Esther Lin’s powerful new collection contains poems that feel simultaneously ancient and inspired by this week’s news. . . . She knows what it means to carry your history with you as something precious and precarious.” — Ron Charles, Book Club (Washington Post)
“A timely account of undocumented immigration and a confessional reckoning with her parents’ difficult histories.” — New York Times Book Review
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“An intellectual reflection that serves as a valuable contribution to the current debates about race, equity and identity.” — Associated Press
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“The book is an indispensable guide to the life and work of Hunt.” — New Criterion
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“Saying that If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose is essential feels like a massive understatement. But, if there is one simple way to describe this important release from OR Books, it’s to say that it provides a beautiful tribute to Alareer’s life and work. . . . [It] is also an indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human.” — Full Stop
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Moshtari Hilal spoke with The Berliner about her book, Ugliness, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press).
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ABA, SCIBA, SIBA, NAIBA, GLIBA, MPIBA, and Bookshop.org Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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