FORTHCOMING
Should we expect a panoply of loquacious objects to chatter on about their experiences exactly as we would? This collection of creative (re)translations, The Queer Life of Riddles, explores the ways these thousand-year-old lyrics lay athwart our expectations, veering in their own directions and refusing to conform to our canons of respectability. How they may[…]
Imprint: Dotawo
FORTHCOMING Winter 2027
A Beginner’s Guide to Old Nubian is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the Old Nubian language, a historically significant yet often overlooked linguistic heritage of the medieval Nubian kingdoms. Flourishing between the 8th and 15th centuries CE in the Middle Nile Valley, encompassing parts of present day northern Sudan and southern Egypt, Old Nubian[…]
Imprint: Les Figues
Published: 11/26/2025
Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice is a series of prose poems about the estranged self living outside of one’s native land and away from one’s native tongue. Romanian poet Alta Ifland writes first in French, then translates her work into English, before returning to the original French for further revisions, a process of linguistic reconciliation[…]
FORTHCOMING Winter 2027
What is Romance Studies? What could it be? This book is a sustained attempt to define—indeed, invent—the field, both in theory and in practice. It is therefore both a manifesto for Romance Studies as a discipline that may be an antidote to bureaucratic reason and, more broadly, a provocative but accessible introduction to methods of[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 10/31/2025
The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital was first published in 1968 in Italian and caused an immediate sensation. It was an instant bestseller and was translated into numerous languages, but never into English. Edited by the Venetian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, the book is a collection of writings, interviews, and debates which tell the[…]
Imprint: Tangent
FORTHCOMING Fall 2026
African Pastoral: Versions of Virgil’s Eclogues presents a fresh and unexpected version of the ten pastoral poems that comprise the Eclogues of Virgil (70–19 BCE). Although these poems focus on the lives of shepherds and goatherds, Virgil makes their seemingly circumscribed existence a mirror of the wider world, a world that is both his and[…]
Imprint: Les Figues
FORTHCOMING Fall 2026
2×6 consists of short “stanzories”—stanzas that are also stories, each one relating an encounter between two people. Appearing in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Polish, the stanzories are generated by a similar underlying process, even as they do not neatly correspond to one another the way a translation typically does to a source text.[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
The Malleus Daemonum provides an exciting introduction into the religious world of early modern Italy. It consists of a series of personal exorcisms which the Italian Observant Franciscan Alessandro Albertino composed and which he claims have proven themselves by experience. It bears witness to the end of a period in which priests could freely compose[…]