Reminder about tonight's free event. Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for a virtual event with translator Luke Leafgren to discuss and honor the release of The Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour.

#FirstLineFriday."November has settled over Norrkoping, the town has been shrouded in mist all through the fall." - THE OTHER WOMAN by Therese Bohman

What's your first read of 2025?

#FirstLineFriday."Inegalitarian systems—that is, the structure and degree of socioeconomic inequality in different societies, and their evolution over time—are extraordinarily diverse." - NATURE, CULTURE, AND INEQUALITY by Thomas Piketty

Here's to spending all winter turning pages. 📚

#FirstLineFriday."At five minutes to two, I check my face in the mirrored walls of the building's lobby, straighten my blazer, touch up my lipstick, and then board the elevator to the sixth floor." - HOTLINE by Dimitri Nasrallah

Order NAPLES 1343:

🚨 NEW RELEASE 🚨.This vibrant family saga chronicles the rise and fall of the Nassar clan, as they navigate the great events of the 20th century in Lebanon, from the Ottoman Empire to the French Mandate. Order A HISTORY OF THE BIG HOUSE:

🚨 NEW RELEASE 🚨.An idealistic young man attempts to find his place in a changed world after incarceration, in this Turkish classic from the pioneering writer and activist, now available for the first time in English. Order THE PRISONER OF ANKARA:

#FirstLineFriday."There was a bit of rain earlier, now the sky's just half-clouded-over with tough little clouds whose rims are picked out in the sunlight." - THE ARCHIVE OF FEELINGS by Peter Stamm

🚨 NEW RELEASE 🚨.An aging writer’s love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family’s history in Greece and in exile. Order MOTHERS AND SONS:

December TBR 🔗

#FirstLineFriday."She's sitting in the fuselage, trussed up like a piece of baggage, battered by noise." - TRAPEZE by Simon Mawer

December releases 📚

#FirstLineFriday."In April 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Israeli soldier named Roi Ruttenberg was killed at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, one of the kibbutzim near Gasa that Hamas would attack six decades later, on October 7, 2023." - THE STATE OF ISREAEL VS. THE JEWS by Sylvain Cypel

🚨 NEW RELEASE 🚨.A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families’ power in the 14th century. Order NAPLES 1343:

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#FirstLineFriday."I hired a car at the airport and drove along the north shore of the lake. It was an hour's drive, skirting Lausanne and taking the road towards Montreux." - TIGHTROPE by Simon Mawer

THE ORDER OF THE DAY Has Never Been More Timely. Find out why in this week's newsletter:

In the acclaimed new book Gaza Faces History, historian Enzo Traverso challenges Western attitudes toward Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza by reckoning with the larger historical context of the Holocaust and the Nakba.