An independent publishing house devoted to fiction and narrative nonfiction from around the world.https://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mlokkxbw2226A movie of THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is in the works with Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter announced that the movie deal followed a bidding war for the prize-winning novel by Anjet Daanje, translated from Dutch by David McKay. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-remembered-soldier-movie-netflix-1236593534/12 May 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlokkxbw2226https://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mlmgwcuko22lUGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal in NYTimes Style Magazine Middle East edition."Explores the material and political consequences of ugliness,examining how systems that categorise people by appearance can shape unequal distributions of power,wealth and opportunity." https://www.arabianbusiness.com/t-magazine/culture/moshtari-hilal-politics11 May 2026 23:36 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmgwcuko22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mlbylr4kgk2u"I find this book so captivating," says Sarah Kalsbeek of YouTube channel EYES ON INDIE about THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje. "There's a lot to love about this book." Find out why it won the Republic of Consciousness Prize @usrofc.bsky.social . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_enTqwlYT007 May 2026 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbylr4kgk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxhftuh7c2bWatch this fascinating discussion between author Egana Djabbarova and New York Times columnist Rhonda Garelick @rhondakg.bsky.social about MY DREADFUL BODY, a book Professor Garelick says "I adore." Find out why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S35e5uRh7Aw03 May 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxhftuh7c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mkpxdnh4jk2uMY DREADFUL BODY named one of the Best Book Covers of April @literaryhub.bsky.social, which calls the design by Alban Fischer "particularly elegant." Egana Djabbarova's novel concerns a woman of Azerbaijani origin being pushed into an arranged marriage she doesn't want. https://lithub.com/the-11-best-book-covers-of-april-3/30 Apr 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpxdnh4jk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mkppywn76s2nRead an excerpt from MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova in Global Europe. The novel addresses each body part with the scrupulousness of a medical researcher, unveiling a hidden world in which illness unexpectedly facilitates the protagonist's liberation. https://globaleuropejournal.org/2026/04/my-dreadful-body-by-egana-djabbarova/30 Apr 2026 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkppywn76s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mkngnv5lns2bHOUSE ARREST by Noa Yedlin: A prize-winning, satirical novel that chronicles a scandal enveloping a prominent Jerusalem family and leads to its downfall. Translated by Shira Atik and Evan Fallenberg, co-published with Altneuland Press. ARCs available. https://newvesselpress.com/books/house-arrest/29 Apr 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkngnv5lns2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mkku2gruis2wJoin author Maya Arad for a discussion of her novel HAPPY NEW YEARS at the Philadelphia area's Kaiserman JCC, Wed. April 29 at 7 p.m. This poignant book examines ambition, loneliness, aging, and the tension between personal desire and communal expectation. https://www.harziontemple.org/events/open-a-book-maya-arad/28 Apr 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkku2gruis2whttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mkifs2ftf22dMY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is a Staff Pick @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social. "A meditation on the body, on illness, on patriarchal norms. This is such a fantastic debut. The writing is great...Plus one of my favorite recent covers!" https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/978195440441027 Apr 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkifs2ftf22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mkfv3qbtn224Visit the New Vessel Press booth at today's Sant Jordi Festival on Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, noon to 5 p.m.26 Apr 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfv3qbtn224https://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mjrtk3nzvc2dA delight to have Egana Djabbarova in the U.S. to present MY DREADFUL BODY, translated @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. Thank you The Harriman Institute at Columbia, U of Pennsylvania, @thenewschool.bsky.social, Amherst College + @rhondakg.bsky.social for hosting. https://newvesselpress.com/books/my-dreadful-body/18 Apr 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrtk3nzvc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mjrklz6scc2gJoin Russian author Sergei Lebedev and translator Antonina W. Bouis for an online discussion of his novel THE LADY OF THE MINE, Thursday, April 23, 13:00 Eastern time, sponsored by @t2diplomacy.bsky.social Free registration: www.tracktwodiplomacy.org/webinar-series18 Apr 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrklz6scc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mjp37p7pn22bAcclaimed novelist @katiekitamura.bsky.social calls Anna Maria Ortese's NEAPOLITAN CHRONICLES her favorite book by "an underrated author." Speaking @thetimes.com about the book which inspired Elena Ferrante, Kitamura says: "Ortese is a giant of Italian letters." https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/katie-kitamura-interview-author-audition-2sb7bn33817 Apr 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp37p7pn22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mjhmky2ho22gSergei Lebedev has been awarded the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté for his writings aimed at ending impunity for Russian state crimes. It was presented at the former Lyon prison where Nazis incarcerated and tortured French resistance fighters and Jews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJIzDAY5LiI14 Apr 2026 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhmky2ho22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mjfgc7bisc2pCome hear Egana Djabbarova discuss MY DREADFUL BODY with NY Times columnist @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m.—"prose marked by intimacy, restraint, and terror . . . a writer of astounding intelligence and power." Free registration: event.newschool.edu/mydreadfulbody13 Apr 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfgc7bisc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mjdqwjpzqc24Welcoming Egana Djabbarova to New York City to celebrate publication of her novel MY DREADFUL BODY. https://newvesselpress.com/books/my-dreadful-body/13 Apr 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjdqwjpzqc24https://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mj362rgajc23Join a discussion of A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, @rizzolibooks.bsky.social. A conversation with Chiara Benetollo, Alessandro Giammei , and Iuri Moscardi, co-sponsored by the Bridge Book Award. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-fictional-inquiry-by-daniele-del-giudice-translated-by-anne-milano-appel-tickets-1985737875440?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_campaign=2026-04-08&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4%2F8%2F26+EVENTS&utm_source=constant_contact09 Apr 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj362rgajc23https://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3miyliipa5c2qEgana Djabbarova interviewed @codastory.com about MY DREADFUL BODY, a "powerful account of the pressures on one woman growing up among the strict codes of an Azerbaijani family living in Russia. A sense of surveillance ... defines the narrator’s upbringing." https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/exiled-at-midnight/08 Apr 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyliipa5c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3miwdhr27u22zMY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is published today. Come hear this "writer of astounding intelligence and power" discuss her new book with New York Times columnist @rhondakg.bsky.social, Wed., April 15, 6 p.m. @thenewschool.bsky.social. Free registration: event.newschool.edu/mydreadfulbody07 Apr 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwdhr27u22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3mitomx3hdc2cTHE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, a "stunning novel" by Anjet Daanje and translated from the Dutch by David McKay, is a Staff Pick @politicsprose.bsky.social bookstore in Washington, DC. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize and a National Book Award Finalist. https://politics-prose.com/book/978195440432806 Apr 2026 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitomx3hdc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/newvesselpress.bsky.social/post/3miov4ak7ac2hUGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal is a Staff Pick @barnesandnoble.com on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Why are we afraid of ugliness? A deep dive into unrealistic beauty standards and their effects on our self-image.” Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ugliness-moshtari-hilal/1144843693?ean=978195440428104 Apr 2026 18:40 +0000at://did:plc:tkhmqtwvs2zk22vi4e4it4dq/app.bsky.feed.post/3miov4ak7ac2h