Transit Children's Editions

The New York Times reviews Dola de Jong’s midcentury queer classic, The Tree and the Vine (tr. Kristen Gehrman).

Transit NewsTransit BooksJune 3, 2020Dola de Jong, Kristen Gehrman, The New York Times, Lidija Haas

May Newsletter

Our May newsletter, featuring a reviews of Dola de Jong’s The Tree and the Vine in The New York Times and Harper’s, and introducing Grove by Esther Kinsky.

Transit NewsTransit BooksMay 31, 2020The Tree and the Vine, Dola de Jong, Kristen Gehrman, The New York Times, Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, Grove, Esther Kinsky, Financial Times, Lucy Scholes, Jon Fosse

Fosse's The Other Name Longlisted for International Booker Prize

Jon Fosse’s The Other Name (tr. Damion Searls) is longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize—the first book in Fosse’s three-volume magnum opus, Septology.

Awards, Transit NewsTransit BooksFebruary 27, 2020Jon Fosse, Damion Searls, 2020 International Booker Prize, 2020 International Booker Prize Longlist, The Other Name, Septology, Norwegian Literature

Transit Introduces Undelivered Lectures

Transit Books introduces Undelivered Lectures, a new narrative nonfiction series featuring book-length essays by international and American writers.

Transit NewsTransit BooksFebruary 26, 2020Mary Cappello, Namwali Serpell, Undelivered Lectures, Stranger Faces, Lecture

Transit Receives $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Transit Books has been approved for a $15,000 Art Works grant to support the publication and promotion of books of fiction and nonfiction, including works in translation,

Transit NewsTransit BooksJanuary 15, 2020National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Translated Literature, Adam Z. Levy