Alex Niemi is a writer and award-winning literary translator. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, the Heldt Prize, and the AATSEEL Prize for best poetry translation from a Slavic language. Her translations include For the Shrew and Hekate by Anna Glazova, as well as The John Cage Experiences by Vincent Tholomé. She also is the author of the poetry chapbook Elephant.

"Dark and deep, a pool of black ink . . . It's rare to encounter a book as feral and lovely as 'The Endless Week, ' one equally fluent in the comedy and the horror of the world -- and the word." --Walker Rutter-Bowman, The Washington Post

"Reading this book feels like falling into a whirlpool: it's inescapable." --Maggie Lange, W Magazine, "Must-Read Books for Fall 2025"

"Vazquez has created a unique and enduring novel. Something hard and real and tangible glitters amid the vapour of text and image she describes." --Dustin Illingworth, New Left Review

"The Endless Week has often been described as surreal, which it is in part--macabre, Dali-esque, extremely disjointed, although at other moments sharply realist and sometimes achingly tender. . . . Perhaps this surreal-realist-thematically obsessive-experimental approach has birthed a true Internet novel, which, by definition, cannot resemble our twentieth century, pre-online idea of a novel at all." -- Kai Maristed, Arts Fuse

"Are the kids ok? Are the elders? Are the gods? Are the dead? In this mesmeric novel, loneliness and the (online) community, language and image, the immediate and the mediated, violence and care construct a tender, precarious microzone called intimacy. A lumbar puncture of a book, a golden strain." --Joyelle McSweeney

"It's a rigorously unsettling reading experience, without plot, tension, or character development. But the details and countless vignettes deliver an immense range of emotion. . . . Grotesquely inventive and amusing, like a corner torn from a Hieronymus Bosch painting." --Kirkus

"They say a truly great author can write about anything and make it interesting, and with The Endless Week Laura Vazquez proves that true on every page. If you're in search of an ultra-contemporary novel that shatters all the rules with inimitable humor and style to spare, look no further--she's arrived." --Blake Butler

"Like all great novels, The Endless Week is about life, time, and death . . . and like all great poets, Laura Vazquez has us encounter violence and beauty through sublime rhythms and poignant variations. She captures human tragedy in the repetition of words, driving the nail of reality deeper . . . Her characters exist powerfully, but not in a conventional way, and they are brought to life through a flux of consciousness that both animates and overwhelms them. . . . These ultra-connected people of the internet live in a bubble full of naïve questions and existential idiocy. . . . Through them, Laura Vazquez marvels at everything, forcing us to see the world anew in the place where humor meets melancholy." --Camille Laurens, Le Monde

"The language of this thirty-five-year-old poet from Marseille is so melodious, rhythmic, and visceral, that it recites itself. . . . [Her novel] is about life, death, and the space we can occupy in both the real and virtual worlds, but Laura Vazquez's words don't deserve to be flattened by such a vague and reductive summary. Her writing is all precision and breadth. . . . [H]er characters live together in the infinite space of today, on Earth and on the web." --Marine Landrot, Télérama