Hot News This Week
May 29, 2025
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| A film adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s acclaimed novel Die, My Love (Charco Press, trans. Carolina Orloff and Sarah Moses) debuted this month at Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and early Oscar buzz. Directed by Lynne Ramsay and expected to hit theaters later this year, the film stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, and Martin Scorsese is one of its producers.
According to Screen International, the adaptation came about when Scorsese read Die, My Love for his book club, envisioned Lawrence in the role, then sent it to her production company.
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| Graphic Novels on Labor Movements, Sleazy Gangsters, and Teenage Crushes
Consortium’s latest Frame by Frame, a quarterly newsletter dedicated to comics and graphic novels, features five new and forthcoming illustrated titles, plus a roundup of recent comics award attention.
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| Bookish Ties to Film, Soccer, and Art Legends
Famed performance artist Marina Abramović and her partner were captured breaking open an ARC of Michael Lentz’s Schattenfroh, translated by Max Lawton (Deep Vellum Publishing). Read Dirt to learn why Deep Vellum sealed Schattenfroh ARCs in wooden boxes that require force to open.
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“Flick’s stories jump adorably from vibey 30-somethings’ dating lives to bears canoeing and eating berries, and sometimes blurs the two. It’s a funny collection with some quirky and sort of profound witticisms thrown in. I love a short story that makes me smile.” — Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books (Morehead, KY)
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“An absolutely riveting portrait of a day in the life of an English school in the 1980s, sure to appeal to fans of Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan or anyone who likes lively, dark-edged characters. Recommended!” — Carol Schneck Varner, Schuler Books (Grand Rapids, MI)
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“This is so gorgeous and so fun!!” — Carlee Benjamin, Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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| | Blue Sky Morning
by Jihyun Kim, trans. Polly Lawson
Floris Books • May 2025 • 9781782509080
★ “Jihyun Kim’s glorious sophomore picture book, Blue Sky Morning, is a gentle reminder to appreciate and enjoy the simple, quotidian aspects of every day.” — Shelf Awareness
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★ “A child’s understanding of home evolves during a Latine migrant family’s journey to safety. . . . This gentle story, which highlights natural beauty and children’s engagement with their immediate world, is an age-appropriate introduction to complex, traumatic events.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | The Seers
by Sulaiman Addonia
Coffee House Press • April 2025 • 9781566897211
“With his linguistic fluidity and keen cultural analysis, [Addonia’s] work is fresh and new. He tells us things in English that a native speaker could not, because his English bends to his storytelling.” — Vol. 1 Brooklyn
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| | TERROR COUNTER
by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
Deep Vellum Publishing • June 2025 • 9781646053797
“An evocative, boundary-pushing reaction to the languages of terror that systematically undermine the lives of Palestinians.” — Vulture
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“[These stories] will give young readers a sense of how thoroughly dragons have haunted the human imagination. Each tale, retold by Theresa Breslin and lightly illustrated by Kate Leiper, comes from a different culture.” — Wall Street Journal
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“Drexler’s brilliantly offbeat novel depicts two seemingly unrelated subcultures . . . by way of the vivid but unlikely relationship between a self-serious art writer and the strong young woman he encourages to take up professional wrestling.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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“Astonishing. . . . In a global moment that seems to invite only fear, anxiety, and rage, what gives me courage (emphasis on ‘coeur,’ or heart), what moves me so deeply about the thrown bodies in this book, is how fully Blaxell makes me feel their velocity.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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“[A] compact, original book. . . . Whether they are shown in London or Athens, the Marbles will always be one of history’s singular Rorschach tests. Keats saw beauty; Byron saw tragedy; in Frieze Frame, readers may see some version of themselves.” — Wall Street Journal
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“The narrator of Özlü’s gorgeous novel, originally published in 1983 and recently translated into English, is a woman much like the writer herself: Turkish, middle-aged, hungry for love and deeply alienated from her surroundings.” — Washington Post
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Last week, Deep Vellum publisher Will Evans appeared on CNN to discuss the importance of literature in translation.
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Solo by Gráinne O'Brien (Little Island Books) was featured as an Editors’ Pick on this week’s Fully Booked podcast from Kirkus Reviews.
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Last week, Religion News Service profiled musician Peter Mayer, whose lyrics have been adapted into Blue Boat Home (Skinner House Books), a picture book illustrated by Sue Todd.
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ABA, PNBA, SCIBA, MPIBA, NAIBA, MIBA, SIBA, SCIBA, NEIBA, and GLIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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