Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world. ndbooks on Bluesky and ndpublishing on Instagram.
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The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize Shortlist:
📖 Ruins, Child by @giadascodellaro (@NewDirections)
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Take a cooling summer walk with 17th-C poet Bashō, @NewDirections books.substack.com/p/diary-b…
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“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.” Read Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp by Kathryn Scanlan, out this week on our website. buff.ly/chpKl6z
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Reserve a spot to see our deputy fiction editor, Cressida Leyshon, speak with Keith Ridgway about his new novel, "Dooneen," at Rizzoli Bookstore, Thursday, June 18. eventbrite.com/e/dooneen-by-…
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For our spring issue, Granta goes to Scandinavia. Read the issue for free online for the next five days.
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“Rather than glamorizing the West or sentimentalizing the East, Qian is highly attuned to the delusions and misunderstandings that impede cross-cultural understanding.”—Andrew Chan writes about Qian Zhongshu’s 1947 novel “Fortress Besieged” @NewDirections 4columns.org/chan-andrew/for…
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“What he writes both is his life and isn’t…”
Read an excerpt from Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING (@NewDirections), translated by Robin Myers, winner of the 2025 @nationalbook Award in Translated Literature:
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I wrote about the reissue of José Emilio Pacheco’s poetry by @NewDirections ! Pictured here in a delightful translation by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston poetryfoundation.org/article…
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'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' Broadway Revival Coming in 2027 From Tony-Winning 'Fun Home' Director Sam Gold (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/news/c…
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I built this website: NDCOLLECTOR.com; it is a database of every book/edition released by New Directions going back to the beginning.
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Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar works were ruthless in their condemnation of a country that was beyond reform.
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For @nytimes, I wrote about Wolfgang Koeppen’s extraordinary Trilogy of Failure. nytimes.com/2026/04/28/books…
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💡🪻We hope you’ll join us to celebrate the release of Wolfgang Koeppen’s THE HOTHOUSE and DEATH IN ROME (out May 5) in Michael Hofmann’s translations. These final two works, introduced by Joshua Cohen and Pankaj Mishra, conclude Koeppen’s masterful postwar trilogy.🐏🌷
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“You can sense his double consciousness in the book’s many observations on racial difference, which encompass crude generalizations about physiognomy and gastronomical customs.”—Andrew Chan on Qian Zhongshu’s 1947 novel “Fortress Besieged” @NewDirections 4columns.org/chan-andrew/for…
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“The nights in these rooms, those cursed nights of unwanted children.”
From Nightmare of the Embryos by Mariella Mehr, out in March with New Directions (@NewDirections).
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Join Morley and Sam for a reading group this fall on 21st century translated fiction from the amazing @NewDirections put on by our friends at @Center4Fiction ! Really good stuff here
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Dallas, it’s time!
Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers.
Join us! hayfestival.org/dallas
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We're so excited to celebrate Anne de Marcken's winning debut novel at our annual event in November!
Read more about the winning novel here: news.vcu.edu/article/2025/08…
Author photo by Nina Subin.
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ALT Headshot of Anne de Marcken.
ALT A copy of It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over sitting on the edge of a wooden table.
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As John Keene puts it, Essex Hemphill “knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, all of which he wielded when needed.”
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