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Dalkey Archive Essentials Spring/Summer 2025 Hello, dear readers, We could not be more thrilled to introduce to you the Spring and Summer 2025 season of Dalkey Archive essentials. This slate of books joins a pantheon of some of our most beloved titles, including the works of two Nobel laureates and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Coming in May, Cobra is a transgressive take on gender and genre from Severo Sarduy, one of the Latin American Boom's most outrageous figures. Later in the month comes The Shutter of Snow, Emily Holmes Coleman's portrait of motherhood and mental illness, with an introduction by Joanna Biggs. They are followed by The Magic Kingdom, a tragicomic and ultimately touching novel by master satirist Stanley Elkin (whose Franchiser will also be joining the Essentials list next season). This edition features an introduction by Adam Levin. Taking a more somber turn, we have Édouard Levé's Suicide, a novel that investigates the death of a close friend, while also serving as the author's own farewell. And finally, the late Stanley Crawford's Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine is a comic tale about the shared loneliness of marriage. It is accompanied by an afterword by Ben Marcus. It is our honor to bring these books back to you, readers, and to give them the treatment and plaudits they so rightly deserve. We sincerely hope you will enjoy them. Thank you for reading, Your friends at Dalkey Archive Press Get the books Forthcoming Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach by António Lobo Antunes, tr. Elizabeth Lowe Novel | 9781628976120 | Paperback | $18.95 | June 10 A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight Is Not in Everyone’s Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer. The year is 2011, and our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to the house where her family spent summers during her childhood. Divided into three sections, one for each day that she spends at the home, Midnight Is Not in Everyone’s Reach unspools in torrents of dialogue and surreal, feverish scenarios. Over these three days, the dead return to life, time splinters and freezes, and conversations flow from the past into the present and back again, as we journey across the narrator’s corrosive psyche toward our real destination—the place inside herself where the family’s grief-stricken secrets are kept. Pre-order now The Tunnel Dalkey Archive is pleased to confirm the long-awaited republication of William H. Gass’ grand abyss of a novel—The Tunnel. Rumors of a new edition have circulated for several years, and now, at last, The Tunnel will join the Dalkey Archive Essentials series in one year, on April 7th, 2026. Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, "Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany," finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus. The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language. To celebrate this highly anticipated reissue, Dalkey Archive Press is launching a new companion, The Tunnel Reader, featuring archival essays by writers in addition to  new critical essays. This companion reader further supplements the existing casebook, which is available for free download here, juxtaposing The Tunnel’s critical reception in 1995 with its enduring legacy and eerie sense of timeliness in our modern political moment. The unabridged audiobook of The Tunnel, read by William Gass himself, will also be re-released on April 7th, 2026. Both the Reader and the audiobook are available for pre-order now, or as a bundle with pre-order of The Tunnel. Learn more Some more great news for you: you won't have to wait a whole year to find out what's in the Tunnel Reader. Over the course of the next year and starting last month, these critical essays will be exclusively released in monthly installments via newsletter, which readers can subscribe to here. Upon the book’s publication in April 2026, The Tunnel Reader will be compiled and published in a print book. The first installment focused on Gass's exacting instructions for The Tunnel's design (which helps to explain the difficulty in republishing the book), and featured a number of fascinating images and specifications. You can catch up on that one here while you wait for next month's newsletter.