Hot News This Week
February 1, 2024
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| “I made a point in my life of almost trying to be invisible so that I don’t offend other people’s grief that’s tearing them to pieces.”
Don McCullin, long-time photojournalist and author of Life, Death, and Everything in Between (Global Book Sales / GOST Books), spoke with Vanity Fair this week about exercising compassion as a war photographer and the futility of violence. Read the full conversation here.
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| | Greasepaint
by Hannah Levene
Nightboat Books • February 2024 • 9781643622132
“At long last! The Yiddish butch anarchist experimental fiction we’ve all been waiting for.” — Mira, A Room of One’s Own (Madison, WI)
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| Your Absence Is Darkness is an Indie Next Pick
The ABA announced this week that Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Your Absence Is Darkness, translated by Philip Roughton, is an Indie Next pick for March. “Add Your Absence is Darkness to the ever-growing pile of Icelandic classics,” says Stephen Sparks of Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station, CA), one of the nominating booksellers. “This deeply moving novel—full of love, stories large and small, and unforgettable characters—caresses and crashes like the waves against the island’s shores.”
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| 7 Outstanding International Children’s Books from Consortium Publishers
The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) selected seven titles from Consortium publishers for their 2024 Outstanding International Books List, honoring these children’s books for their exceptional quality and globe-spanning origins:
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Feb. 6.
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★ “Dutton, author of Margaret the First, explores a conceptual take on storytelling involving the ineffable feeling of a text, beyond mere words. Her work is highbrow while remaining mischievously playful, reminiscent of the form-smashing thrills of writers like Lydia Davis and Anne Carson.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | The Innocents
by Bridget Walsh
Gallic Books • March 2024 • 9781913547523
★ “The sequel to The Tumbling Girl is another entertaining, well-researched historical mystery, good for fans of Masterpiece Mystery’s Miss Scarlet and the Duke. As before, the working people behind the scenes at the music hall are the stars.” — Library Journal
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“The fact that the editors and their publisher (AK Press) were able to obtain so many testimonies from people inside—people who are inside for actions against the state and its commercial sponsors—is impressive, to say the least.” — CounterPunch
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| | How Dreadful!
by Claire Lebourg
Transit Children’s Editions • February 2024 • 9781945492785
“An unmitigated delight. Its heroine is an artist named Paty who’s a bug of some sort with a significant proboscis, possibly a moth or mosquito. . . . It’s a droll parable, with a hint of Little Red Hen classicism, rendered even wittier by Lebourg’s winsome drawings.” — New York Times Book Review
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Theophanies
by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Alice James Books • January 2024 • 9781949944587
“Gorgeous and raw and searching . . . these are poems that confidently consider the life and questions of a modern Muslim woman.” — Ron Charles, Book Club (Washington Post)
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An excerpt of Munir Hachemi’s Living Things, translated by Julia Sanches (Coach House Books), ran in the fall issue of the Paris Review.
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Love Novel
by Ivana Sajko, trans. Mima Simic
Biblioasis • February 2024 • 9781771965989
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Five of the ten novels longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize are from Consortium publishers, with nominated titles from And Other Stories, Biblioasis, Charco Press, City Lights Publishers, and Transit Books.
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