R.F. Kuang is, in the best sense, a literary chameleon. Each one of her novels presents a different setting and dynamic, but her oeuvre is unified by careful thought, sharp style, and an uncanny ab…

A young woman’s search for her father becomes a search for the truth.

"I didn’t think about those nachos even once. I had never experienced anything like it. Is this, I asked my friends, how it feels to be normal?"

"Daniel Saldaña Paris is an extraordinary talent, and his novel feels both urgent and true." —Lauren Groff

Adam Dalva talks with Marie NDiaye about her most recent novel and how her narrators navigate social class in France.

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Legendary journalist Gay Talese, inventor of "New Journalism" converses about A Town Without Time, the new collection of his greatest reporting on New York City, with writer and critic Adam Dalva.

Solstad’s two newly translated novels are 'Armand V' (New Directions, May), composed of footnotes to a nonexistent novel, and 'T Singer' (New Directions, May), which follows its protagonist through a ...

A story by Aysegul Savas: "I was sitting in a wine bar waiting for my date when I heard the two women next to me speaking Turkish."

Unnamed Press editors Brandon Taylor and Allison Smith’s just-launched imprint, Smith & Taylor Classicsc, was born from staff meeting conversations that kept leading back to a love of cla…

On Saturday, November 16, join 2021 US Goncourt Choice-winning author Anne Berest and American writer A.M. Homes for a conversation about family, history and identity, moderated by Adam Dalva.  Both a...

WWB staff members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're most looking forward to in 2024.

He’d tried to scrounge together a certain kind of life for himself in this reptile pit that teetered on the brink of the world, but he craved home.

I sensed that Benjamín Labatut would be a challenge to profile because his work is heady and elusive. His English-language debut, When We Cease to Understand the World, was part-essay, part-fiction��...