Tina Kover

YouTube video by Translators Aloud Charlotte Mandell reads from Mathias Énard’s THE DESERTERS (Fitzcarraldo/New Directions, 2025)

Here's a clip of me reading from my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and New Directions, recently longlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com , for Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social :

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Amazing. Trump is resuming nuclear peace talks with Iran after threatening war because Trump ripped up the previous nuclear deal. If successful talks occur, he’ll take credit for solving a problem he created. I’m so tired.

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

Here’s a thought for James Comer.

There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton.

It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein.

You know, just to see what she knows.

Oh, Dandy. 🧡

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

Marta (@grammamarta) Everybody knows it’s true. The republicunts just don’t care.

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In England, they arrested a former prince for being in the Epstein files, while here in America, a president who was in the Epstein files a million times, including for punching a 13-year-old in the face for biting his penis, wants his face to be on Mount Rushmore and have an airport named after him

So the former President of South Korea has been sentenced to life in prison for insurrection, a former prince of England has been arrested for Epstein ties, but in the US Trump is freely blabbering and shitposting because he's protected by John Roberts and the Republican Party?

As if any more proof were needed.

Ukrainian boy nabbed in haunting new novel

Ukrainian boy nabbed in haunting new novel
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If the right to vote wasn’t powerful, Trump wouldn’t be trying to take it away.

Trump is a vile racist of very low intelligence, infantile temperament and insistently malevolent nature. No further explanation is necessary. I’m going to post everyday until he’s removed by congress or a body bag.

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Hey JD; THIS is what it looks like when the world respects you!

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

This guy raped little girls.

HASSAN: DHS officers have killed two American citizens in Minnesota this year. What were their names?

LYONS: Renee Good and Alex Pretti

HASSAN: I'm glad to hear you say their names. Because so far this morning, as well as in 3 hours of testimony Tuesday, you failed to say their names a single time

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.

I have neighbors everywhere.

Justice isn’t ICE leaving Minnesota.

Justice is ICE being held accountable for murdering Americans.

Outside Vallorgàna, a tiny, isolated village high in the foothills of the Dolomites, the ‘Duke’ lives in the villa of his aristocratic ancestors. The last in the centuries-old line of the Cimamontes,… Antonella Lettieri reads from Matteo Melchiorre's THE DUKE (Foundry Editions, 2025n

We've got a special Sunday treat for you! Here's Antonella Lettieri reading from THE DUKE, a sweeping feat of literary imagination that asks some big twenty-first-century questions about our relationships with privilege, the past, the natural world, and each other. Enjoy!

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

#Trumpregime
You cannot believe one word coming from this administration.
Their narrative is 'patriotism', their motive is power, wielding criminal corruption.

Red Moon is a novel teeming with enigmas, mysteries, and curiosities, including the symbolic meanings of gemstones found beside the murderer’s victims. The crimson moon and full moons that feature… Alannah Purslow reads from Nieves Herrero's RED MOON (seeking a publisher)

Oh #crimefiction lovers, have we got a treat for you! Here's translator @alannahjrpurslow.bsky.social reading from RED MOON, a novel out of Spain, a #mystery of many crimes and many suspects...is the madness linked to the moon? Rights available! #seekingapublisher

In Couch Grass's four remarkable stories, the acclaimed Ethiopian author Adam Reta uses multiple voices that interweave throughout the narratives, offering the reader a richer perspective through a… Bethlehem (Betty) Attfield reads from Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS (Fidessa Publishing, 2025)

A delight as always to feature translator @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, here with Adam Reta's COUCH GRASS, a collection of stories that invites readers into #Ethiopia’s literary heartbeat, where everyday gestures carry philosophical weight and history lingers in intimate lives.

Gerrit Engelke (1890-1918) was born in Hannover to poor parents who soon moved without him to the USA, and was apprenticed to a house-painter. His poetry upholds spiritual values against… Timothy Ades reads the poetry of Gerrit Engelke

Welcome back to our brilliant friend, the rhyming translator-poet Timothy Adès, here with the poetry of Gerrit Engelke (1890-1918), whose work raged against industrialisation and war, and who died of wounds on 13 October 1918, soon before the Armistice, in a British field hospital.

In The Inner Harbour, Antoine Volodine focuses his literary investigations away from dystopian futures to a specific place at a particular historical moment: Macau on the eve of the Portuguese… Gina Stamm reads from Antoine Volodine's THE INNER HARBOUR (University of Minnesota Press, 2025)

Gina Stamm reads from Antoine Volodine's THE INNER HARBOUR (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), a beguiling, perspective-shifting story of obsession and loss set in the grimy, late-colonial decadence of Macau at the end of the twentieth century.