New Vessel Press is an independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature and narrative nonfiction into English.
[2] New Vessel Press books have been widely reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
[3] The Words That Remain, a Brazilian novel about the scars left by poverty, illiteracy, and homophobia, by Stênio Gardel and translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
[7] "Ross and Michael have really spun gold out of nothing; they've really made an instant classic out of New Vessel," John Oakes, director of the New School Publishing Institute and co-founder of OR Books, told Crain's New York Business in May 2017.
[8] Book covers for New Vessel Press translations have been created by graphic artist Liana Finck[9] and Beth Steidle.