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This is TODAY! How I wish I could be in Oxford for the festivities…

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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

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#OPT/Israel: We call for an immediate arms embargo on all parties—especially on weapons used by Israel to target Palestinian civilians, and an end to the genocide in Gaza. Our statement. @penmena.bsky.social #CeasefireNow #ArmsembargoNow #EndtheGenocideNow www.pen-international.org/news/optisra...

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Anima Fatua — Anna Lidia Vega Serova (tr. @robmunb.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2025/05/27/a...

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Historic news! Chagossians can finally go home to most of their homeland now that the UK + Mauritius have signed a treaty for the Chagos Islands and the US military base on Diego Garcia. Here are the 11 most important things to know: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That is why it was striking when she used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.

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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume Me, a translator: The gap is also present in the original

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This book is SO GOOD. If you'll allow a bookseller comparison moment, it's THE LEOPARD of now. Architecture as nation & memory, a deeply melancholy & beauty, an unusual novel centred on the profundity of ambivalence. And @jmz.bsky.social's translation is a rare justification of the word lapidary.

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New Fiction: From ‘The Palace on the Higher Hill’ Winner of the 2021 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, Karim Kattan's The Palace on the Higher Hill -- beautifully translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman and out this month from Foundry Editions -- opens when Faysal receives a letter about the…

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“Salt has no scent. What you smell is decomposing algae.” A decade ago, Karim Kattan wrote a short story set in Gaza. The translation I did is now live on @thedialmag.bsky.social and it rings so differently today. Read and reflect on the coruscating thing here: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

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This is the most powerful thing The Guardian has published in years. “In order to make earthly planetary survival possible, some versions of this world need to end.”

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In times of dread and despair, hope and encouragement matter. As such, the news that this year's French-American Foundation Translation Prize jury has named my translation of Adèle Rosenfeld's JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS as a finalist is especially moving… myemail.constantcontact.com/Translation-...

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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. To the Transgender community in Illinois and around the country: You deserve to live your life proudly and openly. We see you and we will protect you.

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On #worldpoetryday, we are delighted to announce the publication of our forthcoming poetry collection, The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad, the English translation by @robmunb.bsky.social of @raquelmenendez.bsky.social's El llibru póstumu de Sherezade (Impronta, 2017), originally written in Asturian!

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Read the piece — and its heart-wrenching preamble — in a quiet place.

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We're pleased to publish an extract from award-winning Palestinian author Karim Kattan's THE PALACE ON THE HIGHER HILL, trans. by Jeffrey @jmz.bsky.social. This is Kattan’s first English-language translation, published by @foundryeditions.bsky.social on 2 April.

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my brain right now

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I love Adèle Rosenfeld's hilarious imagination and biting social critique, and her story THE HEARING-AID BRIGADE was such a treat to translate for @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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my brain right now

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hello to this book and this book only ❤️‍🔥

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see no evil / hear no evil / speak no evil

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my brain right now

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I'm deeply honored to be named a 2025 NEA Translation Fellow! I'll be working on the extraordinary Palestinian novelist Karim Kattan's EDEN AT DAWN, a gay Song of Songs set in a sandstorm-snarled Jerusalem and narrated by the sky itself. www.arts.gov/impact/liter...

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JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

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“My roots, my words remain Mauritian. Even when I set a novel elsewhere, this connection stays present and alive,” [Ananda Devi] said. She also underscored that “we remain under the yoke of colonization…” www.lemauricien.com/le-mauricien...

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One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.

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Andrej Jemec, Escalation towards Light, 1974

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This is very very very good advice, listen to Dexter Palmer

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This is already an extraordinary piece on the literature of Việt Nam in the New York Times, but this note especially blew me away—what a powerful argument against house style when it comes to foreign languages:

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Oh, this is SUCH a good question! I have to go through the replies and see what everyone said.

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Blue face, now on BlueSky!

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