Co-founded by Ilan STAVANS and Joshua ELLISON, Restless Books began in 2013 as a digital publisher of international literature, in response to the parochial, inward-looking, and homogenizing trends in American publishing. "Our guiding conviction has always been that readers are naturally hungry for new destinations, experiences, and perspectives. Restless set out to feed this hunger and curiosity with a richer diet of international literature, and to reclaim a sense of what it means to be restless—“stirring constantly, desirous of action."
Restless is a not-for-profit corporation in order to further our commitment to internationalism, diversity, immigrant culture, and great literature at a time when those values have come under renewed threats.
©Crédits photographiques, Robert Born.