A new venture is in the works for Archipelago Books – Elsewhere Editions, a children's imprint – with its first titles to be released in spring 2017.

When Jill Schoolman founded Gowanus-based Archipelago Books in 2003, she wanted to broaden the literary landscape in the United States. “There was a massive gap in literature that was being read in ...

Higa Oshiro died in April 2023, shortly before his masterpiece, the novella “The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu,” was published in English by Archipelago Books.

Join Archipelago Books and Poets House for a night of poetry celebrating the work of Yannis Ritsos, 'the greatest poet of our age' (Louis Aragon). Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley will read from ...

A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and ...