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Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir

Catch the Rabbit

Good Night, Earth

Machiavelli: On Politics and Power

The City of Good Death

Popol Vuh: A Retelling

The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life

1,001 Creatures

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ellie’s Voice, or Trööömmmpffff

The Body Papers

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

Silence of the Chagos

The Mermaid in the Bathtub

Robinson Crusoe: 300th Anniversary Edition

Daniel and Ismail

Glory and Its Litany of Horrors

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Rapid-Fire Picks for Women in Translation Month from Restless Authors and Translators

Aug 16, 2021

Rapid-Fire Picks for Women in Translation Month from Restless Authors and Translators

Aug 16, 2021

Aug 16, 2021

Talks on Translation with Restless Authors and Translators

Jul 14, 2021

Talks on Translation with Restless Authors and Translators

Jul 14, 2021

Jul 14, 2021

And then I answered the phone and said her name: An Excerpt from "Catch the Rabbit" by Lana Bastašić

Jun 30, 2021

And then I answered the phone and said her name: An Excerpt from "Catch the Rabbit" by Lana Bastašić

Jun 30, 2021

Jun 30, 2021

"Open the Door": An Excerpt from Rajiv Mohabir's "Antiman"

Jun 22, 2021

"Open the Door": An Excerpt from Rajiv Mohabir's "Antiman"

Jun 22, 2021

Jun 22, 2021

Restless Reads Popol Vuh This May

May 5, 2021

Restless Reads Popol Vuh This May

May 5, 2021

May 5, 2021

Restless Staff and Author Picks: Independent Bookstore Day 2021

Apr 23, 2021

Restless Staff and Author Picks: Independent Bookstore Day 2021

Apr 23, 2021

Apr 23, 2021

PJ Storytime with "Good Night, Earth" Illustrator Linda Bondestam (and More Virtual Events!)

Apr 22, 2021

PJ Storytime with "Good Night, Earth" Illustrator Linda Bondestam (and More Virtual Events!)

Apr 22, 2021

Apr 22, 2021

Restless Reads Machiavelli this April

Apr 12, 2021

Restless Reads Machiavelli this April

Apr 12, 2021

Apr 12, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: “The Wooden Horse and the Metallic Deer” and “What Would It Be Like If He Lived”

Apr 5, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: “The Wooden Horse and the Metallic Deer” and “What Would It Be Like If He Lived”

Apr 5, 2021

Apr 5, 2021

Jon Lee Anderson Introduces "Machiavelli: On Politics and Power"

Mar 22, 2021

Jon Lee Anderson Introduces "Machiavelli: On Politics and Power"

Mar 22, 2021

Mar 22, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: “Same Sky, Different Fly” and “Member of the Tribe”

Mar 19, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: “Same Sky, Different Fly” and “Member of the Tribe”

Mar 19, 2021

Mar 19, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: "800 Saturdays" and "A Cup of Coffee"

Mar 12, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: "800 Saturdays" and "A Cup of Coffee"

Mar 12, 2021

Mar 12, 2021

Mar 11, 2021

To Describe the World with Wonder: Ilan Stavans on Norton Juster

Mar 11, 2021

Mar 11, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: "Chissà se va" and "Oxygen"

Mar 9, 2021

Selections from the Immigrant Writing Workshops: "Chissà se va" and "Oxygen"

Mar 9, 2021

Mar 9, 2021

Conversations with Priyanka Champaneri on "The City of Good Death"

Feb 22, 2021

Conversations with Priyanka Champaneri on "The City of Good Death"

Feb 22, 2021

Feb 22, 2021

Priyanka Champaneri on Virtual Book Tour for "The City of Good Death"

Feb 16, 2021

Priyanka Champaneri on Virtual Book Tour for "The City of Good Death"

Feb 16, 2021

Feb 16, 2021

Restless Reads Dostoevsky This February and March

Feb 5, 2021

Restless Reads Dostoevsky This February and March

Feb 5, 2021

Feb 5, 2021

Giacomo Sartori on Writing "Bug"

Feb 1, 2021

Giacomo Sartori on Writing "Bug"

Feb 1, 2021

Feb 1, 2021

An Excerpt from "Bug" by Giacomo Sartori, Author of "I Am God"

Jan 21, 2021

An Excerpt from "Bug" by Giacomo Sartori, Author of "I Am God"

Jan 21, 2021

Jan 21, 2021

Restless Reads Kafka this January

Jan 8, 2021

Restless Reads Kafka this January

Jan 8, 2021

Jan 8, 2021

The Best Books We Read in 2020

Dec 2, 2020

The Best Books We Read in 2020

Dec 2, 2020

Dec 2, 2020

The 2020 Restless Holiday Gift Guide

Nov 23, 2020

The 2020 Restless Holiday Gift Guide

Nov 23, 2020

Nov 23, 2020

Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Nov 18, 2020

Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Nov 18, 2020

Nov 18, 2020

Behind the Scenes of "Popol Vuh: A Retelling" with Illustrator Gabriela Larios

Nov 10, 2020

Behind the Scenes of "Popol Vuh: A Retelling" with Illustrator Gabriela Larios

Nov 10, 2020

Nov 10, 2020

Live Virtual Events Celebrating "Popol Vuh: A Retellling"

Oct 13, 2020

Live Virtual Events Celebrating "Popol Vuh: A Retellling"

Oct 13, 2020

Oct 13, 2020

Virtual Storytime and Art Workshop with the Creators of "1,000 Creatures"

Sep 28, 2020

Virtual Storytime and Art Workshop with the Creators of "1,000 Creatures"

Sep 28, 2020

Sep 28, 2020

Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Sep 17, 2020

Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Sep 17, 2020

Sep 17, 2020

Preview the Vibrant Art of "Popol Vuh: A Retelling" with Illustrator Gabriela Larios

Aug 18, 2020

Preview the Vibrant Art of "Popol Vuh: A Retelling" with Illustrator Gabriela Larios

Aug 18, 2020

Aug 18, 2020

Restless Reads Don Quixote This Fall

Aug 17, 2020

Restless Reads Don Quixote This Fall

Aug 17, 2020

Aug 17, 2020

Writers on the Pandemic: Virtual Events for "And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again"

Aug 10, 2020

Writers on the Pandemic: Virtual Events for "And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again"

Aug 10, 2020

Aug 10, 2020

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Hello to 1,001 CREATURES, an exceptionally beautiful new book out today from Finland! It’s an extravagant ink-and-poetry love letter to the animal world from acclaimed Finnish artist Laura Merz.

From the giant blue whale to the little birds that clean the teeth of crocodiles, over two dozen creatures come to life in Laura's gloriously outside-the-lines artwork, conjured up with ink from memory (swipe for some of our favorites). Each animal is paired with a freeform poem by Aino Järvinen—translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah—that celebrates the interconnectedness of all life. 🦧🐜🌍

"A work of art and a great first encyclopedia for the youngest animal lovers." (Mia Spangenberg, World Kid Lit)

"A bestiary that seduces the reader into the secrets of ink drawings." (The Most Beautiful Books of the Year 2016, Finnish Book Art Committee)

At link in bio, find an exclusive discount code, a virtual storytime & art workshop with Laura and Ai

🤸🏽&zwj;♀️Starred reviews from Kirkus AND Publishers Weekly for the third and last volume of Ricardo Piglia's masterful, magnificent final project.
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⭐️“A posthumous autobiographical masterpiece…. [P]rofoundly moving. A meditation on both the accumulation and ephemerality of time, Piglia’s final work is a brilliant addition to world literature.” (@publisherswkly)
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⭐️ “Filled with literary aperçus and fragments of history: an elegant, affecting close to a masterwork.” (@kirkus_reviews)
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Translated by Robert Croll, THE DIARIES OF EMILIO RENZI is finally available in full for English readers on October 13.

“A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present....

“Other writers have described well the reverberations of trauma (like David Grossman in ‘See Under: Love’) but few have taken this further step, to wonder out loud about the ways the Holocaust may have warped the collective conscience of a nation, making every moment existential, a constant panic not to become victims again.” (@nytbooks)

Happy pub day to this slim, explosive masterpiece by Yishai Sarid. It’s a book to read in one sitting, and remember for long afterward. Available now at link in bio.

“This book hit me viscerally, emotionally, and personally. THE MEMORY MONSTER is brief, but in its short account Sarid manages to lay bare the tensions between memory and morals, history and nationalism, humanity and victimhood. An absolute must-read.” (Julia DeVarti, @literatibookstore)
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Out next week: THE MEMORY MONSTER by Yishai Sarid, tr. by Yardenne Greenspan. Forced into a career as a concentration camp tour guide in order to make ends meet, a young scholar from Israel buckles under the weight of history.
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A new classic of Holocaust literature, it’s been hailed as “perhaps the most important novel about the Holocaust and Holocaust memory to have been written in the last ten years” (Bill Niven, the British Association of Holocaust Studies). Preorder now at link in bio with the code BUYDIRECT to get 15% off.

"An intriguing and unforgettable verbal kaleidoscope." (Ricardo Piglia)
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Today is your last chance to get the eBook of Carlos Fonseca’s dazzling COLONEL LÁGRIMAS for just $3.99! Available at GooglePlay, Kobo, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
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Fonseca’s follow-up NATURAL HISTORY is out now from @fsgbooks, and he’ll be in (virtual) conversation with translator Robert Croll at Malaprop’s on September 7. An admirer of the late Ricardo Piglia, Fonseca will talk with Croll about NATURAL HISTORY and the legacy of Piglia, whose much-lauded trilogy THE DIARIES OF EMILIO RENZI will finally be available in full in English this fall. Hailed as a “posthumous autobiographical masterpiece” (Publishers Weekly starred review) and “an elegant, affecting close to a masterwork” (Kirkus starred review), the final volume is set to publish on October 13. (And Piglia’s THE WAY OUT, also translated by Robert Croll, is out now!) Details at link i

Join Bel Canto Books (@belcantobooks) for a special interview with writer, educator and Restless author Grace Talusan on Friday 8/28 12PM Pacific to help kick off Bel Canto’s weekend-long Indie Bookstore Day celebration. Grace's powerful memoir The Body Papers was the winner of our 2017 Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Tune in to hear what she has to say about the power of storytelling, the challenges of writing memoir, and her favorite books!
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Event link: https://shopthehangout.com/collections/calendar/products/author-interview-with-grace-talusan-fri-8-28-12pm-pst

We’ve raised $1,315 for our children’s imprint so far! 🎉 We need just $1,185 to get to $2,500 (halfway to our goal!)—you can help at link in bio. Our deepest gratitude to everyone who has donated. Thank you for helping us continue to publish excellent global literature that inspires and challenges young readers.
⠀
Swipe for some illustrated details we love from Yonder books:
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🌕 Ramayana: An Illustrated Retelling (🎨: Sonali Zohra)
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🐚 Ellie’s Voice, or Trööömmmpffff (🎨: Piret Raud)
⠀
🐬The Mermaid in the Bathtub (🎨: Rutu Modan)
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🐳 1,001 Creatures (🎨: Laura Merz)

It’s here! Happy pub day to this extraordinary anthology. In March, we invited writers, poets, and artists from more than thirty countries to send dispatches on the pandemic. The result is a literary time capsule for the defining event of our lifetime. It offers an antidote to fear and isolation that the best writers can offer: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own.
⠀
Featuring essays, poems, stories, many of them in translation, from Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, André Naffis-Sahely, Francine Prose, Nadia Christidi, Rivka Galchen, Mona Kareem, Gabriela Wiener, Jhumpa Lahiri, Claire Messud, and dozens more. Deepest gratitude to every writer, artist, and translator who made this anthology possible.
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A portion of proceeds will go to support bookstores and booksellers via BINC. We’ve missed them dearly during lockdown, and we need them to still be here once we can all be together again.
⠀
Swipe for virtual events with contributors this

“Cervantes teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.” —Milan Kundera
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Announcing our fall classics book club pick: DON QUIXOTE. Instead of our usual one book a month, we’re sticking with this one all through the fall, accompanied by the very best guide: Ilan Stavans, a noted Cervantes scholar and devotee (and our publisher). We’ll read about eight pages a day, with monthly virtual meetings hosted by Stavans along the way, wrapping up by early December.
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During an uncertain fall, the restless, struggling, dreaming figure of Don Quixote will be a good friend. As Stavans writes, “This is a book for all seasons. It feels to me as if it has always been needed as a way to mend the world, perhaps today more than ever.”
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Learn how to join us at link in bio.

SEX
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INTRIGUE
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MARGINALIA (@kirkus_reviews)
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Happy pub day to Ricardo Piglia’s THE WAY OUT, a thriller set on an American college campus by an icon of the Latin American avant-garde. In the mid-90s, when Piglia’s literary alter ego accepts a post at a prestigious university in New Jersey, he becomes embroiled in a relationship with a colleague—who, oddly, insists on total secrecy. But her mysterious death sets him on a collision course with a distinctly American terrorist.
⠀
A simmering exploration of literature and violence, with “evocative, Updikean descriptions of American suburbia,” this is a “thoughtful, slight, and mesmeric crime novel by a giant of innovative literature” (Booklist). A perfect late summer read.
⠀
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll. As always, get 15% off when you order from our website with the code BUYDIRECT.

Hello to 1,001 CREATURES, an exceptionally beautiful new book out today from Finland! It’s an extravagant ink-and-poetry love letter to the animal world from acclaimed Finnish artist Laura Merz.

From the giant blue whale to the little birds that clean the teeth of crocodiles, over two dozen creatures come to life in Laura's gloriously outside-the-lines artwork, conjured up with ink from memory (swipe for some of our favorites). Each animal is paired with a freeform poem by Aino Järvinen—translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah—that celebrates the interconnectedness of all life. 🦧🐜🌍

"A work of art and a great first encyclopedia for the youngest animal lovers." (Mia Spangenberg, World Kid Lit)

"A bestiary that seduces the reader into the secrets of ink drawings." (The Most Beautiful Books of the Year 2016, Finnish Book Art Committee)

At link in bio, find an exclusive discount code, a virtual storytime & art workshop with Laura and Ai

🤸🏽&zwj;♀️Starred reviews from Kirkus AND Publishers Weekly for the third and last volume of Ricardo Piglia's masterful, magnificent final project.
⠀
⭐️“A posthumous autobiographical masterpiece…. [P]rofoundly moving. A meditation on both the accumulation and ephemerality of time, Piglia’s final work is a brilliant addition to world literature.” (@publisherswkly)
⠀
⭐️ “Filled with literary aperçus and fragments of history: an elegant, affecting close to a masterwork.” (@kirkus_reviews)
⠀
Translated by Robert Croll, THE DIARIES OF EMILIO RENZI is finally available in full for English readers on October 13.

“A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present....

“Other writers have described well the reverberations of trauma (like David Grossman in ‘See Under: Love’) but few have taken this further step, to wonder out loud about the ways the Holocaust may have warped the collective conscience of a nation, making every moment existential, a constant panic not to become victims again.” (@nytbooks)

Happy pub day to this slim, explosive masterpiece by Yishai Sarid. It’s a book to read in one sitting, and remember for long afterward. Available now at link in bio.

“This book hit me viscerally, emotionally, and personally. THE MEMORY MONSTER is brief, but in its short account Sarid manages to lay bare the tensions between memory and morals, history and nationalism, humanity and victimhood. An absolute must-read.” (Julia DeVarti, @literatibookstore)
⠀
Out next week: THE MEMORY MONSTER by Yishai Sarid, tr. by Yardenne Greenspan. Forced into a career as a concentration camp tour guide in order to make ends meet, a young scholar from Israel buckles under the weight of history.
⠀
A new classic of Holocaust literature, it’s been hailed as “perhaps the most important novel about the Holocaust and Holocaust memory to have been written in the last ten years” (Bill Niven, the British Association of Holocaust Studies). Preorder now at link in bio with the code BUYDIRECT to get 15% off.

"An intriguing and unforgettable verbal kaleidoscope." (Ricardo Piglia)
⠀
Today is your last chance to get the eBook of Carlos Fonseca’s dazzling COLONEL LÁGRIMAS for just $3.99! Available at GooglePlay, Kobo, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
⠀
Fonseca’s follow-up NATURAL HISTORY is out now from @fsgbooks, and he’ll be in (virtual) conversation with translator Robert Croll at Malaprop’s on September 7. An admirer of the late Ricardo Piglia, Fonseca will talk with Croll about NATURAL HISTORY and the legacy of Piglia, whose much-lauded trilogy THE DIARIES OF EMILIO RENZI will finally be available in full in English this fall. Hailed as a “posthumous autobiographical masterpiece” (Publishers Weekly starred review) and “an elegant, affecting close to a masterwork” (Kirkus starred review), the final volume is set to publish on October 13. (And Piglia’s THE WAY OUT, also translated by Robert Croll, is out now!) Details at link i

Join Bel Canto Books (@belcantobooks) for a special interview with writer, educator and Restless author Grace Talusan on Friday 8/28 12PM Pacific to help kick off Bel Canto’s weekend-long Indie Bookstore Day celebration. Grace's powerful memoir The Body Papers was the winner of our 2017 Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Tune in to hear what she has to say about the power of storytelling, the challenges of writing memoir, and her favorite books!
⠀
Event link: https://shopthehangout.com/collections/calendar/products/author-interview-with-grace-talusan-fri-8-28-12pm-pst

We’ve raised $1,315 for our children’s imprint so far! 🎉 We need just $1,185 to get to $2,500 (halfway to our goal!)—you can help at link in bio. Our deepest gratitude to everyone who has donated. Thank you for helping us continue to publish excellent global literature that inspires and challenges young readers.
⠀
Swipe for some illustrated details we love from Yonder books:
⠀
🌕 Ramayana: An Illustrated Retelling (🎨: Sonali Zohra)
⠀
🐚 Ellie’s Voice, or Trööömmmpffff (🎨: Piret Raud)
⠀
🐬The Mermaid in the Bathtub (🎨: Rutu Modan)
⠀
🐳 1,001 Creatures (🎨: Laura Merz)

It’s here! Happy pub day to this extraordinary anthology. In March, we invited writers, poets, and artists from more than thirty countries to send dispatches on the pandemic. The result is a literary time capsule for the defining event of our lifetime. It offers an antidote to fear and isolation that the best writers can offer: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own.
⠀
Featuring essays, poems, stories, many of them in translation, from Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, André Naffis-Sahely, Francine Prose, Nadia Christidi, Rivka Galchen, Mona Kareem, Gabriela Wiener, Jhumpa Lahiri, Claire Messud, and dozens more. Deepest gratitude to every writer, artist, and translator who made this anthology possible.
⠀
A portion of proceeds will go to support bookstores and booksellers via BINC. We’ve missed them dearly during lockdown, and we need them to still be here once we can all be together again.
⠀
Swipe for virtual events with contributors this

“Cervantes teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.” —Milan Kundera
⠀
Announcing our fall classics book club pick: DON QUIXOTE. Instead of our usual one book a month, we’re sticking with this one all through the fall, accompanied by the very best guide: Ilan Stavans, a noted Cervantes scholar and devotee (and our publisher). We’ll read about eight pages a day, with monthly virtual meetings hosted by Stavans along the way, wrapping up by early December.
⠀
During an uncertain fall, the restless, struggling, dreaming figure of Don Quixote will be a good friend. As Stavans writes, “This is a book for all seasons. It feels to me as if it has always been needed as a way to mend the world, perhaps today more than ever.”
⠀
Learn how to join us at link in bio.

SEX
⠀
INTRIGUE
⠀
MARGINALIA (@kirkus_reviews)
⠀
Happy pub day to Ricardo Piglia’s THE WAY OUT, a thriller set on an American college campus by an icon of the Latin American avant-garde. In the mid-90s, when Piglia’s literary alter ego accepts a post at a prestigious university in New Jersey, he becomes embroiled in a relationship with a colleague—who, oddly, insists on total secrecy. But her mysterious death sets him on a collision course with a distinctly American terrorist.
⠀
A simmering exploration of literature and violence, with “evocative, Updikean descriptions of American suburbia,” this is a “thoughtful, slight, and mesmeric crime novel by a giant of innovative literature” (Booklist). A perfect late summer read.
⠀
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll. As always, get 15% off when you order from our website with the code BUYDIRECT.

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