Reposted by Wakefield PressRobert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An absolute tour de force of riparian revelry. A sunken cathedral whose prayers are yearning to surface. Immediately slots near the very top of the Belgian school of the Strange. 021
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An oneiric Atlantis in the throes of a luminous pessimism: The Drowned Land is now available. wakefieldpress.com/products/the... 193
Reposted by Wakefield PressThe Pataphysical Society of New York @patanyc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Fortunately for English readers, @wakefieldpress.bsky.social has issued far more accessible editions of Schwob's work in translation, including Imaginary Lives (along with other pataphysical and pataphysics-adjacent writing. All writing is pataphysics-adjacent, but some more than others.) 162
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Happy to announce that Julien Gracq’s The Sunset Lands is now in our paws, after many delays (including this much-delayed post)! 1291
Reposted by Wakefield PressRachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This is @wakefieldpress.bsky.social's seventh collection of Belgian author Jean Ray's tales of the strange and terrifying: wakefieldpress.com/products/the... #SFinTranslationwakefieldpress.comThe Last Canterbury TalesTranslated, with an afterword, by Scott Nicolay / April 2026 / 5.375 x 8, 216 pp. / 978-1-962728-09-6 A window in the night is a terror. I have known people who went crazy just waiting for the nightma... 031
Reposted by Wakefield PressRachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Scorpions is the first work of Japanese #SFinTranslation out from the fabulous @wakefieldpress.bsky.social: wakefieldpress.com/products/sco...wakefieldpress.comScorpionsTranslated, with an introduction, by Michael Day / December 2025 / 4.5 x 7, 80 pp. / 978-1-962728-10-2 “My literature is a cancer which attacks and destroys the literature of the past.”—Yumiko Kurahas... 072
Reposted by Wakefield PressRobert @robertd1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A long-read about London as a theme in 20th century Belgian 'strange fiction'. Told through the lens of author Jean Ray & the first English translation of novel The Last Canterbury Tales by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. Takes in Machen, Symbolism, WW1, & dreams. open.substack.com/pub/urblinds...open.substack.comThe London of the ImaginationThe strange occurrence of Jean Ray and The Last Canterbury Tales 42011
Reposted by Wakefield PressRachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Starting a new series on the website spotlighting publishers who bring us the excellent #SFinTranslation we love. First up: @wakefieldpress.bsky.social 082
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Back from the printer: the collected poetry and other writings by Belgian Dadaist Clément Pansaers. Arguably the most Dadaist verse to be found among all the Dadas: Tzara and Picabia seem almost traditional in comparison. 2202
Reposted by Wakefield PressRachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 16/01/2026#SFinTranslation Out in 2026: from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, @wakefieldpress.bsky.social, @unnamedpress.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @tordotcom.bsky.social, @twolinespress.com, @valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bsky.social, and more! www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=15892 153
Reposted by Wakefield PressJoseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 18/01/2026ICYMI I wrote about this short but passionate defence of the power of language. You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard, tr by Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz @wakefieldpress.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/01/16/y...roughghosts.comYou are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal QuinardAustrian poet, writer and librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal signalled a break with his earlier works when, in 1902, he published the story “A Letter,” also known as “The Lord Chandos Letter.” It is… 082
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026lithub.com/adina-hoffma...lithub.comAdina Hoffman on Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in ParisThe Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Our win… 041
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 08/10/2025We are pleased to announce a celebration for our 100th title: SchrummSchrumm, or The Sunday Quicksands Excursion by Fernand Combet. Marc Lowenthal will be joined by translators Erik Butler, Margaret Carson, Kit Schluter, Doug Skinner Aeon Bookstore 151 E Broadway, NY, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm 1123
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Fantastic Orgy by Alexander M. Frey, is now in hand, along with reprints of Marcel Brion's Waystations of the Deep Night and Jean Ray's Malpertuis. Sign up for our newsletter for updates at wakefieldpress.com. Thank you and much love to our readership and supporters! 1151
Reposted by Wakefield Presscolmmckenna.bsky.social @colmmckenna.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Had the pleasure of covering Hermann Burger's Diabelli (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social and published by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social) for this week's @thetls.bsky.social. Diabelli by Hermann Burger | Book review | The TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...the-tls.co.uk‘Acrobatics bereft of inner order’In the title story of Diabelli – a collection of short fiction by the Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–89), first published in 1979 – a washed-up 062
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Cate Blanchett does a great reading of a letter from our Remedios Varo book! youtu.be/RcTIwlc3RN8?...youtu.beCate Blanchett reads a wonderfully bizarre letter to a strangerYouTube video by Letters Live 171
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 19/04/2025We're happy to declare that we have two new titles in hand: Huysmans's pessimistic ode to sterility (and his own favorite novel of his career), Domesticity, and Jacques Sternberg's frenetic pop-surrealist fever dream, The Employee wakefieldpress.com/products/dom... wakefieldpress.com/products/the... 0242
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The first monologue from Hermann Burger's Diabelli in The Baffler, for those wanting to dip their eyes in before taking a plunge. thebaffler.com/fiction/the-...thebaffler.comThe Orchestra Minion | Hermann BurgerI have not applied for the post of orchestra minion in order to revive the old feud between strings and woodwind. 062
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The Messengers have arrived. Evocative of Alain-Fournier and Kafka, but presenting a dreamscape of its own unsettling character, their message comes with the inevitable question: how has this award-winning 1974 novel never been translated into English before? wakefieldpress.com/products/the... 0232
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2025“I have stolen myself from a film. Now I am strolling along the ocean shore. And I still have not spliced my paragraphs into the proper order.” www.thebeliever.net/a-review-of-...thebeliever.netA Review of The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards (a Novel Against Psicho-Analise) - Believer Magazine 050
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025We literally have new books in hand: Hermann Burger's Diabelli and Emil Szittya's Hashish Dreams of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards. wakefieldpress.com 1181
Reposted by Wakefield PressM.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025New review: Gaston de Pawlowski's 1916 collection, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 www.complete-review.com/reviews/anci..., recently out in English, from @wakefieldpress.bsky.socialcomplete-review.comNew Inventions and the Latest Innovations - Gaston de PawlowskiA review, and links to other information about and reviews of New Inventions and the Latest Innovations by Gaston de Pawlowski. 041
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 30/12/2024New arrogant recommendations from Tom Bowden, which include two recent Wakefield titles. And, of course, much more... 040
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New books are in hand in most untimely fashion: the spiraling spatial symbolism of Dr. Mises and the symbolist sexual psychosis of Rachilde. wakefieldpress.com/products/sta... wakefieldpress.com/products/the... 0192
Reposted by Wakefield PressVol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024We reviewed the unsettling short novel With Their Hearts In Their Boots, out now on @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c...vol1brooklyn.comConstant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots”Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William … 021
Reposted by Wakefield PressWilliam Boyle @wmboyle4.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for writing about Jean-Pierre Martinet’s WITH THEIR HEARTS IN THEIR BOOTS over @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social. My pal Alex translated the book, & I wrote the foreword. It’s out now from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c...vol1brooklyn.comConstant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots”Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William … 0114
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social · 27/11/2024www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/11/26/c... Some attention given to the bracing existential horror of Martinet's With Their Hearts in Their Boots. And a happy holiday to our readers in the US.vol1brooklyn.comConstant Delirium: Reading Jean-Pierre Martinet’s “With Their Hearts In Their Boots”Credit where credit is due: I picked up Jean-Pierre Martinet’s With Their Hearts In Their Boots (translated by Alex Andriesse) in no small part due to the fact that its introduction was by William … 040