Ben Libman

Book #2, on its way to you. It’s a dream to be publishing VOYEUR with the legendary @coachhousebooks & to work with Tamara and Alana on this vision of visions. Kylikes, amphorae, & hydriae, Aphrodites, Davids, Bathshebas, & Susannas, spies, freaks, & creeps, vellum, paper, marble abound. Pliny & Cranach (Elders, both). Duras & Antonioni. Akerman & Hitchcock. Proust & Cassat. Hayez & Rembrandt, Velázquez & Gentileschi. Surveillance tech & the World Wide Web. Kos & Knidos, Paris & London, Montreal & Jerusalem. Blake… Dickinson… What’s not to love?

This was 2025.

It was an honour to speak with @mortenhoi about my book for the @readliberties podcast, Required Reading. With thanks to @celestemarcus , as ever. Listen on whatever app you use 🎧

I regret to inform you that I am the doctor on your flight.

Two weeks from today, please join us at Feldman’s Books (@feldmansbooks ) on June 15th for two poets and one non-fiction writer reading from their 2025 books. Adedayo Agarau (@adedayoagarau ) will read from The Years of Blood (@fordham_press ). Joseph Kidney (@zacnephron ) will read from Devotional Forensics (@goose_lane ). And Benjamin Libman (@benlibman ) will read from The Third Solitude (@dundurnpress ). The academic year is ending. The summer is beginning. Come out and reawaken your hearts! Adedayo Agarau is the author of The Years of Blood (Fordham University Press, 2025) and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He edits Agbowó and serves as a Poetry Reviews Editor at The Rumpus. Joseph Kidney is the author of Devotional Forensics (icehouse poetry, 2025). He teaches in Stanford’s Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Program and has received several poetry prizes. Benjamin Libman is the author of The Third Solitude (Dundurn Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Yale Review, and New Left Review.

⚡️ PARIS ⚡️ 2 June • 19h Join me and @tobiasv_ryan for a conversation about THE THIRD SOLITUDE at @theredwheelbarrowbookstore . Refreshments provided! 🇫🇷 Another brilliant poster design by @millie_rol

MONTREAL — I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @kunstkammer.a about my book, The Third Solitude, on May 16. Come on down to @destiil_books to join the discussion. Wine and cheese and @leseltzer rumoured to be attending……

📣THE THIRD SOLITUDE 📣 📚 OUT MAY 13, 2025 📚 Didn’t know it at the time, but this book was born in 2018, when I first began reading through a packet of documents I’d received from an estranged relative in Vienna. It has grown into a meditation on history, a narrative journey to far-flung places, an interrogation of Zionism, and a portrait of the world that made me (and the people who have inhabited it). The Third Solitude was written in fits and starts in many places, including Palo Alto, Montreal, London, Kalahe, and my home in Paris. I’m grateful to those who hosted me and gave me the space to write. Many of you on here have contributed to this memoir in ways big and small, whether you know it or not; you will find your names in the acknowledgments. I owe a special thanks to @ae_akinwumi , who encouraged me to write the proposal when I was dragging my feet. And, of course, to the whole team at @dundurnpress for taking a chance on me. Keep your eye out for events in: - Montreal (May 15th) - Paris (June 2) - Berlin (end June) And elsewhere TBA. — You can pre-order now (see above), or else find the book at your local bookseller or online on May 13. Sharing this post would also go a long way for this little book. Reviewers can request copies directly from Dundurn. You can also DM me.

It is done (2018-2025). Always on-call for the culture. Thanks to Mark, Mark, and Margaret for seeing me through.

I ❤️ τὴν Ἀκρόπολιν 🫶

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paris (Aragon style) & peak district (Whitman style) in b&w