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An excerpt from @SVeltfort’s THIS VITAL ABSENCE, available 12/1 from Deep Vellum imprint A Strange Object. Read it here: electricliterature.com/this-…

A woman looking for her father, an anonymous sperm donor, believes she’s found him in a disgraced anesthesiologist who denies paternity but with whom she becomes increasingly entangled. A literary thriller for fans of Patricia Highsmith!

THE RIVER OF BLESSINGS, the third and final installment in David Marquis’ River Trilogy, is a lyrical meditation on the unpredictable movements of life and the stream of blessings that come in their own, unpredictable time with the pursuit of goodness. Available now!

IMMIGRANT, a poetry collection by Joaquín Zihuatanejo, translated into Nahuatl and Spanish by David Bowles. Available February 16th, 2027. Cover designed by David Benneworth-Gray.

March 3rd, 2027 — Mark Melton’s INJUSTICE OF THE PEACE, from Deep Vellum imprint La Reunion. From the courtrooms of the powerful to the living rooms of the forgotten, INJUSTICE OF THE PEACE tells the troubling story of poverty and eviction in America’s legal system.

Mircea Cartarescu’s SOLENOID — the “instant classic,” the “masterwork,” the “landmark,” the “greatest surrealist novel ever written” — will be back in stock November 2026.

Happy International Literature in Translation Day! Did you know that Deep Vellum is the largest independent publisher of translated literature in the United States? In 2026 alone, we published work in 25 languages: Arabic, Bikol, Braj Bhasa, Cantonese, Chinese, Filipino …

Praise for THIS VITAL ABSENCE, Sophia Veltfort’s brilliant debut novel, an “unforgettable” metafiction of paternity and responsibility.