I have two poems in the new @pnreview.bsky.social 288. One is a Propertius (via Grigory Dashevsky). You can read it here:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/two-...
I have two poems in the new @pnreview.bsky.social 288. One is a Propertius (via Grigory Dashevsky). You can read it here:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/two-...
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
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Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
27.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 1983 🔁 732 💬 131 📌 511My god this story.
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📰 [TMR EDITORIAL TEAM]
Meet Abdelrahman ElGendy, our new literary editor and author of forthcoming Huna (Penguin Random House, Sept 2026), exploring dissent and erasure in post-revolution Egypt.
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Behind the scenes with Managing Editor Lara Vergnaud: Why #MotherTongue is our first bimonthly issue theme.
Mother Tongue goes live in a week, on March 6th.
I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.
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Latest Irish Times fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers. I have a couple of these in my TBR – lucky me, it seems.
Translated fiction: books by Maria Stepanova, Édouard Louis, Anna Nerkagi, Michelle Steinbeck, Helle Helle and Pirkko Saisio
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.
"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..."
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Our free newsletter subscribers have just received Esther Allen’s (@eallen.bsky.social) essay from the new Winter 2026 issue—a Borgesian tale of petty feuds and international rights, obsessive friendships and tangled copyrights. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/borges-and...
14.01.2026 14:23 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2Esther Allen (@eallen.bsky.social) can spin the woolliest yarn with scholarly precision… You know who else was known for such things?
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Hello, at the University of Minnesota, we're hiring a visiting creative nonfiction writer for the next 2-3 years to teach a 1-1 (one grad class, one undergrad class) and potentially sit on some MFA thesis committees. This job will give you time to write you next book: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
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How did the poinsettia become a symbol of Christmas?
Check out this article below in Time Magazine by my dad Norman Ellstrand and I:
time.com/7202847/poin...
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech (11/05/2025)
f the nyt
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
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2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE Bodies Found in Various Places, by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House) (Poetry) Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions) (Nonfiction) Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, by Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli (City Lights) (Poetry) Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories) (Fiction) Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen (Biblioasis) (Fiction) Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories) (Nonfiction)
2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, (NYRB) (Fiction) The Ruins, by Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li (Deep Vellum) (Poetry) The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions) (Fiction) Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press) (Nonfiction) We Do Not Part, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth) (Fiction) Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth (Archipelago) (Poetry)
2025 BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLIST COMMITTEE Tobias Carroll Mandana Chaffa Isabella Corletto Adam Dalva Frances Evangelista Rebecca Hussey Andrea Lingenfelter Idra Novey Mira Rosenthal Defne Saricetin Alina Stefanescu Hannah Weber Liz Wood
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
18.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 8Translating literature is itself a form of art. No algorithm could render into English Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" with anything like the beauty that William Weaver did.
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Today, we're excited to announce a new online open-enrollment class with the brilliant Carmen Maria Machado!
Carmen's four-session class "Speculative Nonfiction: Four Lessons on Story, Memory, Speculation, and Invention" begins Feb. 25.
Register now! buff.ly/PLEKu35
#writingcommunity
Really honored to be among the adjuncts and independent researchers whose work is featured on this list. Thank you @rcolesworthy.bsky.social & @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social for including Solidarity with Children and for honoring non-tenure track scholars each year!
Solidarity with adjuncts ❤️
Somehow this is the worst part.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
NEIGHBOR KIDNAPPED HERE ABOLISH ICE painted on Seattle sidewalk in yellow paint
Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
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