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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ARCs of Dogs by Dora Šustić are in! Translated by Ena Selimović, this is a sultry novel about intense first love, profound longing, bodies, rejection, and mirages, jumping between Croatia, Czechia, and Spain. Think Sally Rooney, but darker. Interested in this November title? Let us know.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy publication day to Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (tr. Ibrahim Fawzy). In this jewel of a novel childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself. #booksky

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We’re publishing Barbara Matejčić’s riveting and timely read about violence and journalistic responsibility early next year: “Did the two young Belgraders with cameras only document the brutal murder of civilians or were their lenses not just witnesses but accomplices to the crime?“

Cover reveal got Killing for a Photograph

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Want to hear Rene Karabash and @izidoraangel.bsky.social talk shop about She Who Remains? Tune in from anywhere Saturday, June 13, at noon EST for this Transnational Literature Series event. www.eventbrite.com/e/transnatio...

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Transnational Series: Rene Karabash and Izidora Angel with Kristin T. Lee

The Transnational Series hosts author Rene Karabash and translator Izidora Angel to honor the release of She Who Remains with Kristin T. Lee

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thanks @ssacks.bsky.social for featuring The Minster in @wsj.com! “Bošković emphasizes the contrast between the power and 'unequivocalness' of the state and sensitivity of the artist . . . Killing poets turns out to be less of a problem than feeling guilty about it.”

Photo of the June 6-7 Wall Street Journal Review that includes a review of The Minister

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It’s #pride month! Why not celebrate with one, or all, of these completely different reads? A contemporary Bulgarian classic about an Albanian sworn virgin, a Bulgarian masterpiece about the Ottoman Empire and lost love, and a haunting book about identity and mourning the loss of a mother. #booksky

Celebrating Pride Month with Call Me Esteban, The Case of Cem, and She Who Remains

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@tobiascarroll.bsky.social features Will Firth’s translation of The Minister by Stefan Bošković on the @wwborders.bsky.social May Watchlist! “If you enjoy your tales of personal and professional crises laced with grim comedy, you’ll find plenty to savor here.” wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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The Watchlist: May 2026 - Words Without Borders

New releases in translation from Ecuador, Montenegro, and Vietnam—find all these and more in Tobias Carroll's latest Watchlist.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thrilled to learn that She Who Remains has made it onto the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers list! Independent publishing is nothing without independent bookstores. Thanks to all of the booksellers out there championing this remarkable novel! #booksky

Partial image of Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers list, featuring She Who Remains at #32

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The end of an era. Sonny Rollins was the last living musician in Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958.”

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

She Who Remains didn’t win @thebookerprizes.com last night. But congratulations are still in order for Rene Karabash, @izidoraangel.bsky.social, and our friends at Peirene Press. The conversations around this remarkable novel are only getting started!

She Who Remains author Rene Karabash and translator Izidora Angel outside of Tate Modern ahead of the International Booker Prize award ceremony

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Always happy to be in London, but especially excited to attend @thebookerprizes.com International Booker Prize awards tomorrow night at Tate Modern to celebrate the translation of great writing from around the world, and root for She Who Remains!

Photo of exterior of Tate Modern and the slogan “See great art from around the world”

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Don’t miss @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on The Minister @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. “A newly translated Montenegrin novel combines dashes of Kafka, Kadare, and early Kundera with a style that is all Stefan Bošković’s own.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/mini...

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Consummating Our Incomplete Nation | Los Angeles Review of Books

A newly translated Montenegrin novel combines dashes of Kafka, Kadare, and early Kundera with a style that is all Stefan Bošković’s own.

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I still chuckle when I get an ms and the TOC has page numbers.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Out today: The Minister by Stefan Bošković (tr. Will Firth). This sharp, bitingly relevant political noir reveals the ugly truths about how the promises of democratic change empower corrupt politicians and organized crime syndicates, fan the flames of nationalism, and eradicate the middle class.

Front cover of The Minister by Stefan Bošković (tr. Will Firth)

The first page of The Minister by Stefan Bošković (tr. Will Firth)

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nové příchutě @zmrzlina.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Picked up Borderlines from @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith and devoured it immediately at a pub down the street. Check out @sandorfpassage.bsky.social for their curated collection and extremely important work (Underground Barbie is genius and perfectly highlights their efforts) 📚💙

Reading wrap-up graphic for @kojicic's April 2026. Stats: 16 books read, 5,361 pages, average rating 4.11. Highest rated reads (all 4.75 stars): *Yesteryear* by Caro Claire Burke, *Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders* by Lewis Baston, and *Underground Barbie* by Maša Kolanović. Average book length: 335 pages; average time to finish: 4 days.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Out today: The Book of Visits, self-translated by Dinko Telećan—hard to categorize, impossible to forget. “The Book of Visits blends Mallo’s phenomenal attention with the tenderness of Rilke’s Book of Hours. A sublime book at the edge of all being.”— @alinaetc.bsky.social, author of My Heresies

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

40 years ago today, for the last event she hosted at @librarycongress as U.S. Poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks chose to invite James Baldwin. It was his last appearance. He read one of his most timeless works. Her introduction is itself a masterpiece www.themarginalian.org/2018/11/19/g...

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Stranger in the Village: James Baldwin’s Prophetic Insight into Race and Reality, with a Shimmering Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a …

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Do you run a bookstore in the EU that carries a dynamic English-language selection, like Cărturești & friends in Romania? Our list is now available through Bill Bailey Publisher’s Representatives; the books ship from Zagreb. Get in on the action!

Sandorf Passage books at Cărturești & friends in Romania

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I would assume Transit is doing it here, but Fitzcarraldo is definitely doing it in the UK with Baker.

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It’s great that Daniel Levin Baker is doing the translation. The Birthday Party is one of my favorite reads in the last few years, thanks greatly to the astounding translation.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

“Rene Karabash’s hypnotic debut novel, She Who Remains, nimbly translated by Izidora Angel . . . defies neat classification . . . This propulsive read is a worthy contender for the International Booker crown." Financial Times www.ft.com/content/9248...

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She Who Remains — rites and wrongs in the Accursed Mountains

Rene Karabash’s tale of a ‘sworn virgin’ in a remote corner of Albania is a worthy shortlistee for the International Booker Prize

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Is it one of these? beineckeroadshow.yale.edu/gallery/cold...

A set of images from “In Cold Blood: Truman Capote in Holcomb, Kansas

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Arts Fuse chews on She Who Remains: “[A] Faulknerian intensity . . . The novel has a lurid, Grand Guignol atmosphere, shifting from narration to poetic incantation and back again." artsfuse.org/327163/book-...

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Book Review: Rene Karabash’s "She Who Remains" - A Balkan Tale of Gender, Law, and Survival - The Arts Fuse

However well or ill this smoldering novel works, it is undeniably compelling, with an ending neither tragic nor happy.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trocadero Philadelphia OCT/NOV 1994 (h/t @buzzpoole.bsky.social)

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Has She Who Remains being on the International @thebookerprizes.com shortlist made you curious about Bulgarian literature? Check out The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva (tr. Angela Rodel, who won the International Booker Prize along with Georgi Gospodinov for Time Shelter). Cem is an epic classic!

Image of two Bulgarian novels: She Who Remains and The Case of Cem

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

All I want in my Easter basket is tapes of the Gillian Welch / Dave Rawlings Dead sets from this weekend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSZ...

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Bird Song. Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville. 4-3-26

YouTube video by Mikey Noll

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Finally got to “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at Portland Museum of Art. I could get lost in an entire museum of her images, but this Sun Ra one is otherworldly in how it conjures a galaxy in Sun Ra’s cape. This pic doesn’t do justice to the print. Space is the place!

Picture of Ming Smith’s photograph of Sun Ra, as seen at Portland Museum of Art in Maine

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I get rid of all movie tie-in covers. Hate them. Except this one. I laugh every time I look at it.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Happy National Poetry Month? Why not celebrate with some exciting, critically acclaimed Croatian poetry? The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan will be out in a few weeks, but we’ve got you covered until then. #booksky

The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan on a stack of other Sandorf Passage poetry books

Sandorf Passage’s seven poetry releases: The Book of Visits, Closed Season, Initial Coordinates, In a Sentimental Mood, Kindness Separates Night from Day, Condiments & Entrails, and Soiled with Earth, Drunk on Air

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/04/2026

She Who Remains, written by Rene Karabash and translated by Izidora Angel, is ‘an exquisitely written, brilliantly observed story about a young woman in a contemporary Albanian tribal society’. Find out more about this #InternationalBooker2026 shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Believe it or not, more prize news: Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać) is on the shortlist for the EBRD Literature Prize! www.ebrd.com/home/news-an...

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EBRD Literature Prize 2026 shortlist announced

Features 10 works in translation from 9 EBRD countries of operation across 3 continents

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thanks, Caroline, and congrats to the whole @charcopress.com team!

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

loooove to see @sandorfpassage.bsky.social on here too. mention the publishers, book journalists!

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thrilling that She Who Remains has made the shortlist! #booksky

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (tr. @izidoraangel.bsky.social) is on #internationalbookerprize2026 shortlist! “Exquisitely written, brilliantly observed.”

She Who Remains front cover with International Booker Prize shortlist emblem

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Grateful Dead’s sound always evolved but listening to 3/25/72, it is mind-blowing to think how radically the band’s sound would change in a matter of weeks. These pre-Europe NYC shows sound like late ‘71, and NOTHING like what was conjured on the Continent. Really is remarkable. #deadfreaksunite

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Long time ago at Yoshi’s in Oakland, Charles Lloyd talked about sharing an apartment with Szabo in San Francisco, likely a result of them both being in Chico Hamilton’s band.

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Great to see She Who Remains on this “Read with Pride” display at the 5th Avenue Barnes & Noble in Manhattan.

Read with Pride display at Barnes & Noble; 5th Avenue, Manhattan

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sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Back from London with finished copies of our next three releases: The Book of Visits, The Minister, and A Plan to Save the World—poetry from Croatia and fiction from Montenegro and Iraq. Curious? Get in touch!

Finished copies of the poetry collection The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan

Finished copies of The Minister by Stefan Bošković (tr. Will Firth)

Finished copies of A Plan to Save the World by Hassan Akram (tr. Ibrahim Fawzy)

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

In CLOSED SEASON, translated by Marina Veverec, Monika Herceg uses hunting symbolism to “express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with.” Poetry from @sandorfpassage.bsky.social for #WomensHistoryMonth: sandorfpassage.org/product/clos...

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Closed Season – sandorfpassage.org

$16.95

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

SHE WHO REMAINS by Rene Karabash, translated by Izidora Angel, is set in a “rural Albanian village where the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a collection of archaic laws—looms over the lives of villagers.” Read it for #WomensHistoryMonth! @sandorfpassage.bsky.social sandorfpassage.org/product/she-...

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She Who Remains – sandorfpassage.org

$18.95

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I can’t remember when the London Book Fair stopped happening in April. But ever since it’s been held in March, I’ve really come to appreciate the trip being my first real dose of spring every year.

Trees in bloom near Holland Park, London

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Omg I would have flown there from Italy if I’d known about that panel! What a dream to be in the same room with those three, let alone talk to them!!! Holy crap. Seriously just three writers I am in awe of. Have a great time.

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Well, Italy ain’t too shabby!

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