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Now available! Purchase the audiobook version of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a paradigm-shifting work.
Order now: https://loom.ly/l-HvIf4
Just two weeks away! Join us on April 30th for the virtual launch of The Torah in the Tarot with author Stav Appel (@torah.tarot) and poet Ariana Reines (@arianareines). The conversation will be moderated by Ayin’s editorial director Eden Pearlstein. Register for the event: https://loom.ly/mTMKtOo
Join us in celebrating the launch of the Selah by Báyò Akómoláfé on Tuesday, May 5th at 7 p.m PT in San Francisco, CA with @longnow.org. Akómoláfé will be in conversation with Eden Pearlstein, cofounder of Ayin Press and editor of Selah. RSVP here: loom.ly/pRAcHFU
Welcome to the Báyò-verse. Selah is a profound, playful, and kaleidoscopic collection from one of our most evocative contemporary philosopher-poets. We are excited to share that you can now purchase the audiobook version of Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader.
Order now: loom.ly/GQOPZg8
We’re excited to share that you can now purchase the audiobook version of A Flag of No Nation by Tom Haviv (@tmhaviv), a meditation on historical rupture and political imagination that traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century.
Order now: loom.ly/n2aSrqs
Join us in celebrating the launch of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age at Harvard Divinity School on Monday, April 20th at 5:15 p.m. ET. Register for the in-person event: https://loom.ly/tKMP340
We’re very proud that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger (@cannupahanska) has won the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Award at the 62nd PEN America Literary Awards (@penamerica) last week.
Read the winners announcement and watch the awards ceremony: https://loom.ly/DLgKwg4
Join us on April 23rd at 6-8 p.m MT (8-10 p.m EDT) to celebrate the launch of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age at Naropa University. Register here: loom.ly/u1unj8Q
Rachel Kaufman’s review of PROTOCOLS: An Erasure by Daniela Naomi Molnar (@daniela_naomi_molnar) was just published in the Harvard Review (@harvardreview).
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We’re still buzzing from last week’s announcement that Cannupa Hanska Luger’s SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Guide won the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at the 62nd PEN America Literary Awards.
Watch the awards ceremony: loom.ly/DLgKwg4
“Finnegan’s Awakening,” a paradigm-shifting excerpt from the recently released 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, should be “read with a liquid mind.”
Read the full excerpt in the Teiku column: https://loom.ly/nn6UzdE
We’re so thrilled that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at the 62nd PEN America Literary Awards this week! Watch the entire acceptance speech from Cannupa below, and read the winners announcement here: loom.ly/DLgKwg4
Watch Cannupa Hanska Luger accept the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at the 62nd PEN America Literary Awards for SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide. Read the winners announcement and view the full ceremony: loom.ly/DLgKwg4
We are so honored to share that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at last night’s 62nd PEN America Literary Awards. Read the winners announcement and watch the awards ceremony: loom.ly/DLgKwg4
Save the date! Join us on April 23rd to celebrate the launch of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and you can also join via livestream. Registration link to come!
Join us in celebrating the launch of the 50th anniversary edition of Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age with the Harvard Divinity School on Monday, April 20th at 5:15 p.m EST in Cambridge, MA. Register for the event: loom.ly/dYfKQOU
Join us on April 30th for the virtual launch of The Torah in the Tarot with author Stav Appel (@torah.tarot) and poet Ariana Reines (@arianareines). The conversation will be moderated by Ayin’s editorial director Eden Pearlstein.
Register for the event: https://loom.ly/mTMKtOo
Happy publication day to Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age, the 50th anniversary edition of a paradigm-shifting work by Reb Zalman, one of the most important Jewish figures in postwar America.
Order your copy here: https://loom.ly/5lScwCs
Just one week until the publication day of the 50th anniversary reissue of Reb Zalman’s debut book, Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age. Read Rabbi Tirzah Firestone’s (@tirzahfire) foreword to this special edition, in our column Teiku: https://loom.ly/Hc_08Sc
“We are indebted to this lack of coherence, to this playful gesturing that resists finality. In other words, we are never-not-broken—like the South Asian goddess Akhilandeshwari, whose name is an ode to brokenness. To be embodied is to be in flight.”—Báyò Akómoláfé
Our first post on our new Aora digital column: read an excerpt from Báyò Akómoláfé’s newly published Selah, a profound, playful, and kaleidoscopic collection of short-form writings.
Read the excerpt: https://loom.ly/pf11WdQ
Order the book: https://loom.ly/2TGTgeU
Today we celebrate the publication of Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader, a profound, playful, and kaleidoscopic collection from one of our most evocative contemporary philosopher-poets.
Order the book: https://loom.ly/2TGTgeU
The publication of Báyò Akómoláfé’s Selah is less than two weeks away! To get a head start on the book, check out Eden Pearlstein’s introduction to Selah, “A Series of Ecstatic Irruptions,” in our new column for Aora: loom.ly/6_MkZbc
We are one month away from the publication of Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader, a profound, playful, and kaleidoscopic collection from one of our most evocative contemporary philosopher-poets.
Preorder here: https://loom.ly/O9pSqgw
We are honored to be distributing The Thousands: A Tithe, a breathtaking invention by Anne Germanacos. What began as a simple task—to write texts of a thousand words each—results in a daring work of fragments and flashes.
Order here: https://loom.ly/jZR8sPs
This month, Stav Appel will be traveling through CA and WA to discuss The Torah in the Tarot.
The schedule is as follows:
1/15 | JCC of San Francisco → https://loom.ly/UaBiNJA
1/17 | Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley
1/18 | Masa Seattle → https://loom.ly/Z6oPel8
We are one month away from the official release of JT Waldman’s Megillat Esther, the magisterial graphic novel of the Book of Esther—now back in an enhanced edition.
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/OAFBV3g
We are grateful to distribute MergEmerge, a card set featuring fifty-two images and fifty-two text fragments by writer/artist Anne Germanacos. Use the deck to find and invent connections, narrating stories between any two cards or more.
Order the book of cards here: https://loom.ly/yI2vxwg