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The Mermaid in the Bathtub

Robinson Crusoe: 300th Anniversary Edition

Glory and Its Litany of Horrors

The Body Papers

The Casket of Time

Run for Your Life

The Souls of Black Folk

Who Left the Light On?

The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years

The Son of Black Thursday

The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

Chekhov: Stories for Our Time

Ramayana: An Illustrated Retelling

Essays on World Literature: Shakespeare • Aeschylus • Dante

Beyond the Rice Fields

Temporary People

The Face: A Time Code

Blog

Blog

Fall 2019 Tour — Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers: A Memoir

Oct 4, 2019

Fall 2019 Tour — Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers: A Memoir

Oct 4, 2019

Oct 4, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Read an Excerpt from Brazilian Author Fernanda Torres's 'Glory and its Litany of Horrors'

Oct 3, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Read Jamaica Kincaid's Introduction to the 300th Anniversary of Robinson Crusoe

Oct 3, 2019

Read Jamaica Kincaid's Introduction to the 300th Anniversary of Robinson Crusoe

Oct 3, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Meet Rajiv Mohabir, Winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Oct 3, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Thank You Daniel & Ismail Backers!

Oct 3, 2019

Oct 3, 2019

Events for Rivka Galchen and RAT RULE 79, an Adventure for All Ages

Sep 12, 2019

Events for Rivka Galchen and RAT RULE 79, an Adventure for All Ages

Sep 12, 2019

Sep 12, 2019

Announcing the Finalists for the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Sep 3, 2019

Announcing the Finalists for the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Sep 3, 2019

Sep 3, 2019

Look Inside the Remarkable Trilingual Picture Book, 'Daniel and Ismail'

Aug 26, 2019

Look Inside the Remarkable Trilingual Picture Book, 'Daniel and Ismail'

Aug 26, 2019

Aug 26, 2019

Read Lauren Groff's Introduction to Virginia Woolf's 'Night and Day'

Aug 22, 2019

Read Lauren Groff's Introduction to Virginia Woolf's 'Night and Day'

Aug 22, 2019

Aug 22, 2019

Read Adventurously this Summer with Kira Salak’s Extreme-Travel Memoirs

Aug 6, 2019

Read Adventurously this Summer with Kira Salak’s Extreme-Travel Memoirs

Aug 6, 2019

Aug 6, 2019

Testimonials from Immigrant Writing Workshop Participants

Jun 20, 2019

Testimonials from Immigrant Writing Workshop Participants

Jun 20, 2019

Jun 20, 2019

'Inside Students': Ilan Stavans on Teaching the Classics in Jail

May 24, 2019

'Inside Students': Ilan Stavans on Teaching the Classics in Jail

May 24, 2019

May 24, 2019

Apr 9, 2019

Events for Andri Snær Magnason, Author of 'The Casket of Time'

Apr 9, 2019

Apr 9, 2019

Apr 2, 2019

Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge on How Co-Translating 'The Boy' Drew Them Closer

Apr 2, 2019

Apr 2, 2019

Events for Grace Talusan, Author of The Body Papers: A Memoir

Feb 20, 2019

Events for Grace Talusan, Author of The Body Papers: A Memoir

Feb 20, 2019

Feb 20, 2019

Read Julie Orringer's Preface to 'The Boy,' a Novel by Marcus Malte

Feb 20, 2019

Read Julie Orringer's Preface to 'The Boy,' a Novel by Marcus Malte

Feb 20, 2019

Feb 20, 2019

Read An Excerpt From The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years by Ricardo Piglia

Nov 20, 2018

Read An Excerpt From The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years by Ricardo Piglia

Nov 20, 2018

Nov 20, 2018

Explore the creative world of Who Left the Light On?

Nov 16, 2018

Explore the creative world of Who Left the Light On?

Nov 16, 2018

Nov 16, 2018

Nov 15, 2018

Meet Priyanka A. Champaneri, Winner of the 2018 Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Nov 15, 2018

Nov 15, 2018

Nov 14, 2018

THE END by Fernanda Torres wins Jabuti Award for Brazilian Book Published Abroad

Nov 14, 2018

Nov 14, 2018

Ilan Stavans asks "Why Should You Read 'Don Quixote'?"

Nov 14, 2018

Ilan Stavans asks "Why Should You Read 'Don Quixote'?"

Nov 14, 2018

Nov 14, 2018

Check out our spine-tingling Halloween-themed discount!

Oct 29, 2018

Check out our spine-tingling Halloween-themed discount!

Oct 29, 2018

Oct 29, 2018

Oct 16, 2018

Read Darryl Pinckney's Introduction to Nella Larsen's Classic Novel, 'Passing'

Oct 16, 2018

Oct 16, 2018

Aug 30, 2018

Check out the LA Times review of The Arid Sky and read an exclusive excerpt of Emiliano Monge's "striking desert noir"

Aug 30, 2018

Aug 30, 2018

An Interview with Cuban Science Fiction Author Yoss

Aug 24, 2018

An Interview with Cuban Science Fiction Author Yoss

Aug 24, 2018

Aug 24, 2018

ANNOUNCING THE 2018 FINALISTS FOR THE RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING

Aug 15, 2018

ANNOUNCING THE 2018 FINALISTS FOR THE RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING

Aug 15, 2018

Aug 15, 2018

Words (for Kids!) without Borders: Ilan Stavans on Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers

May 11, 2018

Words (for Kids!) without Borders: Ilan Stavans on Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers

May 11, 2018

May 11, 2018

Help us publish our next Restless Classic: Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

May 10, 2018

Help us publish our next Restless Classic: Nella Larsen's 'Passing'

May 10, 2018

May 10, 2018

Good Vibrations: A Glimpse of Gabriela Wiener’s 'Sexographies'

May 3, 2018

Good Vibrations: A Glimpse of Gabriela Wiener’s 'Sexographies'

May 3, 2018

May 3, 2018

Apr 26, 2018

See Matt McCann's Illustrations for 'Chekhov: Stories for Our Time'

Apr 26, 2018

Apr 26, 2018

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Oct 14, 2019, 6:15 PM

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A surrealist delight for young readers swims ashore from Israel 🐳 happy pub day to THE MERMAID IN THE BATHTUB! A weird and wonderful tale of encountering difference and taking to the sea from beloved author Nurit Zarchi, with illustrations by the inimitable @rutumodan. Translated from the Hebrew by Tal Goldfajn 🌊 🦑

#regram from Green Apple Books, who just hosted I AM GOD author @giaco.sartori for Books on the Park in San Francisco!

Big mail day today! ✉️✨ Restless Readers Club members, you'll be receiving either RAT RULE 79 or ROBINSON CRUSOE very soon, you lucky ducks. Everyone else: you too can get excellent books in the mail from us! Join our Restless Readers Club and get 6 titles a year for just $10 a month. 📚📦📫 Link in bio!

🎉Happy Pub Day to RAT RULE 79!!🎉 The Restless team (and our special friend at the Prospect Park Zoo) are ecstatic to present Rivka Galchen’s latest book, and her first for young readers! Head to our website to order your copy of the novel critics are calling “mesmerizing,” “madly inventive,” and “impossibly perfect!” 📚✨ #rivkagalchen #ratrule79

Góðan daginn! Today marks the beginning of the Taste of Iceland cultural festival here in NYC! 🇮🇸 ✨ As part of this week-long event, Restless’ very own @andrimagnason will be reading at @molassesbooks on the 12th and @spoonbillbooks on the 15th! Come by and don’t forget your copy of THE CASKET OF TIME for signing! Check the link in our bio for more info about the event 📚🖋 @icelandnatural #tasteoficeland #thecasketoftime

Mark your calendars! This Wednesday, the @center4fiction will be putting on a celebration of the release of our 100th-anniversary Restless Classics edition of Virginia Woolf’s NIGHT AND DAY, hosted by @jorringer, @fernham, and @michaelcunningham_grig. This edition features an introduction from FATES AND FURIES author Lauren Groff and illustrations by graphic artist @keradtke.

More info on the event can be found via the link in our bio!

We are so excited to be announcing that @rajivmohabir is the winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Non-Fiction! Mohabir will receive $10,000 and publication of his work, ANTIMAN, with Restless Books.

A multi-genre exploration of sexuality, identity, and belonging, ANTIMAN combines linear prose, various poetic forms, transcriptions of traditional myths, and simultaneous translations of family lore. Tracing his ancestors’ peripatetic, century-plus migrations from rural India to Guyana to Canada and the US, Mohabir examines both the bonds and disconnects between his American identity as a gay poet with the expectations and limitations of his diverse cultural inheritance.

#ICYMI, DANIEL AND ISMAIL has arrived! This book is a one-of-a-kind trilingual children’s book about two boys, one Jewish, one Palestinian, who bond over a shared love of soccer. The text reads in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, and gives readers from all over the world a chance to enjoy this story of overcoming cultural differences for the sake of friendship.

Visit the link in our bio to order DANIEL AND ISMAIL from our bookstore!

After a Year of Effort, Our Trilingual Picture Book Takes the Field! ⚽🎉
Daniel and Ismail, a picture book in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, gives you a reading experience like no other. Find it on our website.

Hamlet not happy. Hamlet's mommy dumb. Hamlet's daddy dead. You've never seen #Shakespeare like this. Get excited for our darkly comic, graphic retelling of Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren. Link in bio to pre-order at our bookstore.

Happy #womenintranslation month! Shout out to some of our favorite Restless authors and translators: #SilvanaGandolfi #LynneSharonSchwartz @oficialfernandatorres @gabrielawiener #LucyGreaves @jennivora #WIT_month #TranslationThurs

Out now: our beautifully repackaged editions of PEN award-winning travel journalist Kira Salak’s inspiring travel memoirs. In FOUR CORNERS, Salak traverses the unknown landscape of Papua New Guinea. In THE CRUELEST JOURNEY, she kayaks down the Niger River to Timbuktu, following in the footsteps of Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Read more about her perilous expeditions, link in bio! #solotraveler #nationalgeographic #adventure #instabooks #travelwriting #memoir

In FOUR CORNERS, PEN award-winning journalist Kira Salak trekked across the remote Pacific island Papua New Guinea, often called the last frontier of adventure travel, encountering witch doctors, cannibals and guerrilla fighters. This journey took her three months, and she became the first woman to travel alone into this previously impenetrable landscape. Order on our website, link in bio. #nationalgeographic #feminist #travelwriting #ebook #summerreading #instabooks #papuanewguinea #memoir #solotravelers

Should a woman travel alone? Of course! PEN Award Winning travel journalist Kira Salak became the first person to travel 600 miles down the Niger River to Timbuktu, once fabled the “doorway to the end of the world.” Read more about her perilous exploration in THE CRUELEST JOURNEY! Link in our bio to pre-order. #nationalgeographic #feministliterature #ebooks #summerreading #Instabooks #timbuktu #memoir #solotravel

"Dear Mr. Crusoe, please stay home. There's no need for this ruse of going on a trading journey, in which more often than not the goods you are trading are people like me, Friday." Acclaimed Caribbean American author #JamaicaKincaid introduces our new edition of ROBINSON CRUSOE, out this August, re-contextualizing this classic for the postcolonial era alongside beautiful illustrations by Mexican artist Eko. #classics #robinsoncrusoe #instabooks #illustrated #summerreading #booklovers

Out today: a novel of sex and Shakespeare in the land of samba: author of THE END Fernanda Torres brings us another riotous takedown of male hubris. 🔪👑 GLORY AND ITS LITANY OF HORRORS
Translated by @wwborders editor ericmbbecker! #amreading #Brazilianlit #FernandaTorres #summerreading #summerreads #beachreads

Can you guess which book our Restless Reader’s club members will get this month? We’ve just sent out our latest mailing, delivering a surprise Restless title straight to our readers’ doorsteps. Interested in joining? Check out the link in our bio.
#bookstagram #instabooks #summerreading #bookclub

🚨Out next week🚨Check out @oficialfernandatorres second novel GLORY AND ITS LITANY OF HORRORS, a tragicomedy that recounts a debauched actor’s downfall from sex symbol to raging madman. @pwpics says “it will charm readers who enjoy madcap farce.” Link in bio to pre-order!
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#bookstagram #latinamerica #femaleauthors #instabooks #summerreading

Still running on a high from the #WorldCup ? Stay in the soccer spirit with Juan Villoro’s GOD IS ROUND! @kirkus_reviews says that this is a “lyrical exploration of the global game of soccer... Villoro brings some memorable line, some delightful turn of phrase, some inescapable image to every page.”
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#bookstagram #worldliterature #soccer #juanvilloro #instabooks #summerreading

A surrealist delight for young readers swims ashore from Israel 🐳 happy pub day to THE MERMAID IN THE BATHTUB! A weird and wonderful tale of encountering difference and taking to the sea from beloved author Nurit Zarchi, with illustrations by the inimitable @rutumodan. Translated from the Hebrew by Tal Goldfajn 🌊 🦑

#regram from Green Apple Books, who just hosted I AM GOD author @giaco.sartori for Books on the Park in San Francisco!

Big mail day today! ✉️✨ Restless Readers Club members, you'll be receiving either RAT RULE 79 or ROBINSON CRUSOE very soon, you lucky ducks. Everyone else: you too can get excellent books in the mail from us! Join our Restless Readers Club and get 6 titles a year for just $10 a month. 📚📦📫 Link in bio!

🎉Happy Pub Day to RAT RULE 79!!🎉 The Restless team (and our special friend at the Prospect Park Zoo) are ecstatic to present Rivka Galchen’s latest book, and her first for young readers! Head to our website to order your copy of the novel critics are calling “mesmerizing,” “madly inventive,” and “impossibly perfect!” 📚✨ #rivkagalchen #ratrule79

Góðan daginn! Today marks the beginning of the Taste of Iceland cultural festival here in NYC! 🇮🇸 ✨ As part of this week-long event, Restless’ very own @andrimagnason will be reading at @molassesbooks on the 12th and @spoonbillbooks on the 15th! Come by and don’t forget your copy of THE CASKET OF TIME for signing! Check the link in our bio for more info about the event 📚🖋 @icelandnatural #tasteoficeland #thecasketoftime

Mark your calendars! This Wednesday, the @center4fiction will be putting on a celebration of the release of our 100th-anniversary Restless Classics edition of Virginia Woolf’s NIGHT AND DAY, hosted by @jorringer, @fernham, and @michaelcunningham_grig. This edition features an introduction from FATES AND FURIES author Lauren Groff and illustrations by graphic artist @keradtke.

More info on the event can be found via the link in our bio!

We are so excited to be announcing that @rajivmohabir is the winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Non-Fiction! Mohabir will receive $10,000 and publication of his work, ANTIMAN, with Restless Books.

A multi-genre exploration of sexuality, identity, and belonging, ANTIMAN combines linear prose, various poetic forms, transcriptions of traditional myths, and simultaneous translations of family lore. Tracing his ancestors’ peripatetic, century-plus migrations from rural India to Guyana to Canada and the US, Mohabir examines both the bonds and disconnects between his American identity as a gay poet with the expectations and limitations of his diverse cultural inheritance.

#ICYMI, DANIEL AND ISMAIL has arrived! This book is a one-of-a-kind trilingual children’s book about two boys, one Jewish, one Palestinian, who bond over a shared love of soccer. The text reads in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, and gives readers from all over the world a chance to enjoy this story of overcoming cultural differences for the sake of friendship.

Visit the link in our bio to order DANIEL AND ISMAIL from our bookstore!

After a Year of Effort, Our Trilingual Picture Book Takes the Field! ⚽🎉
Daniel and Ismail, a picture book in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, gives you a reading experience like no other. Find it on our website.

Hamlet not happy. Hamlet's mommy dumb. Hamlet's daddy dead. You've never seen #Shakespeare like this. Get excited for our darkly comic, graphic retelling of Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren. Link in bio to pre-order at our bookstore.

Happy #womenintranslation month! Shout out to some of our favorite Restless authors and translators: #SilvanaGandolfi #LynneSharonSchwartz @oficialfernandatorres @gabrielawiener #LucyGreaves @jennivora #WIT_month #TranslationThurs

Out now: our beautifully repackaged editions of PEN award-winning travel journalist Kira Salak’s inspiring travel memoirs. In FOUR CORNERS, Salak traverses the unknown landscape of Papua New Guinea. In THE CRUELEST JOURNEY, she kayaks down the Niger River to Timbuktu, following in the footsteps of Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Read more about her perilous expeditions, link in bio! #solotraveler #nationalgeographic #adventure #instabooks #travelwriting #memoir

In FOUR CORNERS, PEN award-winning journalist Kira Salak trekked across the remote Pacific island Papua New Guinea, often called the last frontier of adventure travel, encountering witch doctors, cannibals and guerrilla fighters. This journey took her three months, and she became the first woman to travel alone into this previously impenetrable landscape. Order on our website, link in bio. #nationalgeographic #feminist #travelwriting #ebook #summerreading #instabooks #papuanewguinea #memoir #solotravelers

Should a woman travel alone? Of course! PEN Award Winning travel journalist Kira Salak became the first person to travel 600 miles down the Niger River to Timbuktu, once fabled the “doorway to the end of the world.” Read more about her perilous exploration in THE CRUELEST JOURNEY! Link in our bio to pre-order. #nationalgeographic #feministliterature #ebooks #summerreading #Instabooks #timbuktu #memoir #solotravel

"Dear Mr. Crusoe, please stay home. There's no need for this ruse of going on a trading journey, in which more often than not the goods you are trading are people like me, Friday." Acclaimed Caribbean American author #JamaicaKincaid introduces our new edition of ROBINSON CRUSOE, out this August, re-contextualizing this classic for the postcolonial era alongside beautiful illustrations by Mexican artist Eko. #classics #robinsoncrusoe #instabooks #illustrated #summerreading #booklovers

Out today: a novel of sex and Shakespeare in the land of samba: author of THE END Fernanda Torres brings us another riotous takedown of male hubris. 🔪👑 GLORY AND ITS LITANY OF HORRORS
Translated by @wwborders editor ericmbbecker! #amreading #Brazilianlit #FernandaTorres #summerreading #summerreads #beachreads

Can you guess which book our Restless Reader’s club members will get this month? We’ve just sent out our latest mailing, delivering a surprise Restless title straight to our readers’ doorsteps. Interested in joining? Check out the link in our bio.
#bookstagram #instabooks #summerreading #bookclub

🚨Out next week🚨Check out @oficialfernandatorres second novel GLORY AND ITS LITANY OF HORRORS, a tragicomedy that recounts a debauched actor’s downfall from sex symbol to raging madman. @pwpics says “it will charm readers who enjoy madcap farce.” Link in bio to pre-order!
.
.
#bookstagram #latinamerica #femaleauthors #instabooks #summerreading

Still running on a high from the #WorldCup ? Stay in the soccer spirit with Juan Villoro’s GOD IS ROUND! @kirkus_reviews says that this is a “lyrical exploration of the global game of soccer... Villoro brings some memorable line, some delightful turn of phrase, some inescapable image to every page.”
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#bookstagram #worldliterature #soccer #juanvilloro #instabooks #summerreading

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