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Soviet Milk By Nora Ikstena, Margita Gailitis (translator)  The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. …

Bride and Groom By Alisa Ganieva, Carol Apollonio (Translator) From one of the most exciting voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva, comes Bride and …

Öræfi: The Wasteland By Ófeigur Sigurðsson, Lytton Smith (Translator) After a grueling solo expedition on the Vatnajökull Glacier, Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg returns to civilization, …

Slave Old Man By Patrick Chamoiseau, Linda Coverdale (Translator) We follow them into a lush rain forest where nature is beyond all human control: sinister, …

The Polyglot Lovers By Lina Wolff, Saskia Vogel (Translator) ‘Do you have to stare like that?’ I asked. ‘Think about the actors in porn. They’ve …

People in the Room By Norah Lange, Charlotte Whittle (Translator) A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house across the street …

Empty Words is such a unique concept – write not for a story, but to simply help improve your handwriting- and well, something great came …

People in the Room is a story of a teenage girl who spies out her window at three older women across from her home one …

In America, our freedoms are often taken for granted. We can go wherever we want, whenever we want, by ourselves, without a chaperone. We can …

By Chad Post,  Open Letter Books Back in 2007, when Open Letter Books was being established at the University of Rochester, we talked quite a …