“ I am the nameless crew member who died on January 27, 1597.” So reports the Dutch narrator of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost from his icy grave on the Arctic archipelago Novaya Zemyla, separating what is known today as the Barents and Kara Seas in Russia. But when this expedition set out to find a “ northeast passage” from Europe to China, the landmasses blocking such a route were unknown. While the expedition failed, the narrator becomes a sentient part of the landscape, privy to centuries of change.

A polar bear devours a sperm whale on the ice of Svalbard, a scene that reveals how Arctic wildlife is struggling to survive the melting ice.

10. Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel Emotionally resonant and deeply felt, Lightbreakers plumbs the complex depths of love, loss, and grief through the eyes of three individuals caught in a tid…

Toelichting: Jonathan Reeder vertaalde Donald Niedekkers Waarachtige beschrijvingen uit de permafrost als Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost.

The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Check out The Competition of Unfinished Stories - Novelist, poet, and internationally acclaimed visual artist Sener Ozmen is one of today's most exciting contemporary voices in Kurdish literature.…

From a Turkish perspective, there is no Kurdistan . . . . Ozmen’s novel meditates on what this effacement does to someone’s subjectivity.

From a Turkish perspective, there is no Kurdistan . . . . Ozmen’s novel meditates on what this effacement does to someone’s subjectivity.

Nonfiction, comics, poems, and fiction in translation: Tobias Carroll recommends a little of everything in this month's Watchlist.

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Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.