Hot News This Week
February 27, 2025
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- Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories)
- Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary (Feminist Press)
Major congrats to the wonderful authors, translators, and presses honored, including our friends at Fitzcarraldo Editions and Tilted Axis Press whose UK titles are nominated. The shortlist will be announced on April 8 and the winner crowned on May 20.
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| ALA-approved Graphic Novels
Numerous graphic novels from Consortium publishers have been named to ALA-approved reading lists issued by the Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table (GNCRT) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Check them out!
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“Fantastic illustrations and a great narrative that tackles the tricky to understand concept, love. This will be a great tool for parents to have conversations with their kids when they are feeling stuck on how to explain this idea that all of us have a hard time defining!” — Elizabeth Bosscher, Schuler Books (Grand Rapids, MI)
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| | Gus
by Liz Murray, illus. Walid Serageldine
Berbay Publishing • February 2025 • 9781922610720
“A splendid tale of a boy and crocodile sharing a birthday that sparks a lifelong friendship [and] is truly lovely story for all ages of readers.” — Courtney Roach, The Novel Neighbor (Webster Groves, MO)
“An uplifting story about the way friendship can make getting old not too bad. . . . It’s about time we had a kid’s book about aging!” — Hadley Corbett, Anderson’s Bookshop (Naperville, IL)
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“This was the sweetest book. I love the friendship theme. I think this book would be a great read for a kiddo starting school for the first time. . . . I would say there is even a small anti-bullying moment in the book as well. Love it!” — Dani Commanda, Bright Side Bookshop (Flagstaff, AZ)
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| | Only Smoke
by Juan José Millás, trans. Thomas Bunstead and Daniel Hahn
Bellevue Literary Press • May 2025 • 9781954276444
★ “In this unpredictable, introspective, but lighthearted slim novel, Millás merges reality and fantasy. This wonder of a book can be experienced in one or two sittings and encourages a second reading.” — Library Journal
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★ “Readers will enjoy discovering this writer of extraordinary gifts. . . . Her lines both stun and revive, moving between Plathian imagery and disarming candor.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Insightful, engaging. . . . Readers can expect significantly haunting, lasting resonance as Vermeulen vibrantly, gloriously, unabashedly shares her ‘imperfect life.’” — Booklist
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★ “The potent narrative jumps between an alternative 2022 and dystopic 2035, but it proves hauntingly timely with today’s global unrest. . . . Readers could well be witnessing an oracular warning of an imminent future.” — Booklist
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“Carmen Boullosa’s rollicking, righteous epic. . . [was] recently given a tenth-anniversary reissue in the US by Deep Vellum, with a jaunty translation by Samantha Schnee and a new introduction by Merve Emre.” — Bookforum
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“Young’s fables of communal enchantment and disenchantment rhyme with the struggles of the contemporary left to articulate a sufficiently ambitious program of transformation. This is especially true of her most elegant tragicomedy of political imagination, Angel in the Forest.”— Bookforum
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“A collection of essays that not only tell the truth in the face of the lies from the powerful but also resist the forces that conspire to erase Gaza from history.” — New Arab
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“[A] haunting feminist dystopia. . . . What stands out most is the philosophical approach Harpman takes as she renders the familiar strange.” — The Atlantic
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Joshua Hull’s 8114 (CLASH Books) is one of Men’s Health most anticipated horror books for 2025.
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ABA, MIBA, 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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