Books

The New York tribute to Nurith Aviv opens with Translating, the last film of a trilogy that began with From One Language to Another and continued with Sacred Language, Spoken…

From One Language to the Other was broadcast by one of Arte’s evening shows dedicated to languages together with a 17-minute documentary filmed in Africa, Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet. This short…

Nurith Aviv: filmer la parole. Edited by Claire Buchbinder, Marianne Dautrey, and Nathalie Georges-Lambrichs. Exils Éditeur (2025).  A new book celebrating Nurith Aviv’s films has just been published in France….

This Holiday season at Bookhouse, we are delighted to feature a rich selection of haggadot from different times and geographical provenances selected by Dan Wyman, our partner and leading international…

And Sarai said to Abram, “Look, יהוה has kept me from bearing. Consort with my maid; perhaps I shall have a child through her.” And Abram heeded Sarai’s request. 

So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian—after Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan ten years—and gave her to her husband Abram as concubine.

Sullaluna and Centro Primo Levi invite you to join a book club discussion of The Trunk, a novella by Alberto Vigevani (translated by Will Schutt) on May 8th at 6:30…

In various ways, Bookhouse visitors have expressed curiosity about the technical and artisanal aspects of typography and book production. I will periodically propose a book, an image, or a video…

Edith Bruck, This Darkness Will Never End, Paul Dry Books, 2025, Translated by Jeanne Bonner | 187 pp. In 1944, at the age of 13, Edith Bruck was deported to…