Joseph Schreiber

The Wax Child Olga Ravn’s first novel to be translated into English, The Employees, is set in the 22nd century and features such science fiction staples as androids and spaceships; her second, My Work, is a more…

My first #InternationalBookerPrize2026 review is Olga Ravn's The Wax Child, translated by Martin Aitken:
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Snow covered path descending through forest toward sunlit trees.

Further along same path, more of the sunlit trees visible.

At the bend in the trail, sun now hitting trees to the right.

Open, snow covered field with bare trees, fir tree covered slope in the distance, in bright sunlight.

Fresh snow and sunshine brightens a bleak world.

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Over the next few months we will re-introduce you to thought-provoking excerpts from our groundbreaking essay collection #riverinanocean

Today, we begin with @jobitek.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social & Lisa Ndejuru

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Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa The lights on the bridges have no end My nights are full of them I will remember the lights even in the face of death – from “Theatre”  (1996) In recent years, Seagull Books has been bringing the w…

ICYMI I wrote about this collection by cult Hindi poet, the first translation of his work into English by @saudaminideo.bsky.social
Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa roughghosts.com/2026/02/26/e...

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

"Deep within the well of language is this monstrous drive which is present within the images, the phantasms which function as the supplement for the object."

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — @mwtempleton.bsky.social

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton minorliteratures.com/2026/02/26/a...

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa The lights on the bridges have no end My nights are full of them I will remember the lights even in the face of death – from “Theatre”  (1996) In recent years, Seagull Books has been bringing the w…

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa, translated by Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/26/e...

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa The lights on the bridges have no end My nights are full of them I will remember the lights even in the face of death – from “Theatre”  (1996) In recent years, Seagull Books has been bringing the w…

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa, translated by Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/26/e...

"My skin sucked no emotion from what we saw, but as we escaped it, like tourists, I felt absolutely elated to know none of us would ever work downtown."

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

"This is for sure a decadent time and thus a decadent book. The 2020s feel like a new kind of decadence."

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...

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ICYMI i was in Minor Lits this week 😎

Billy Sticks — Des Barry Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...

— @kentkosack.bsky.social on reading and vision

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...

— an extract from KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social

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— new fiction from @farsouthproject.bsky.social

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ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social +

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Billy Sticks — Des Barry Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…

"My mother grabbed me and tried to smother me for Da was caught short with his fingers in the till ... She forced the pressure on me face to catch and cut off the breath of me life ..."

Billy Sticks — @farsouthproject.bsky.social

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“at nightfall, the night herons no longer called”: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện these are the chronicles of my village, the vessels of remembering and reminiscing, tale upon tale of yesterday, yesteryear, yestercentury or yestermillennia, now plainly precise, now hazily adrift…

ICYMI I wrote about this poetic stream of tales within a historical narrative, beautifully translated by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng @yalepress.bsky.social
“at nightfall, the night herons no longer called”: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện
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Billy Sticks — Des Barry Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…

"Rhythm, it’s all in the rhythm. The rhyme and the rhythm, the grime and the schism. The schism that set us free."
— @farsouthproject.bsky.social

Billy Sticks — Des Barry minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...

Big up Minor Lits for publishing the opening broadside from Keshed. This is how the ride begins - fragmented text emerging from a sea of black, after some words of wisdom from notorious feelgood philosopher Schopenhauer 👀👀👀👀👀

you can get a copy of GLANTZ here:

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Interview coming out in April 👀 stay tuned

“at nightfall, the night herons no longer called”: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện these are the chronicles of my village, the vessels of remembering and reminiscing, tale upon tale of yesterday, yesteryear, yestercentury or yestermillennia, now plainly precise, now hazily adrift…

“at nightfall, the night herons no longer called”: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện, tr by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng @yalepress.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/18/a...

Keshed — Stu Hennigan &nb…

Keshed — Stu Hennigan
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“at nightfall, the night herons no longer called”: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện these are the chronicles of my village, the vessels of remembering and reminiscing, tale upon tale of yesterday, yesteryear, yestercentury or yestermillennia, now plainly precise, now hazily adrift…

“at nightfall, the night herons no longer called”: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện, tr by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng @yalepress.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/18/a...

Right Eye, Left Eye — Kent Kosak A Thursday night like any other. My eyes are tired but no more so than usual. I brush my teeth, undress, turn on the bedside lamp, lie down, and pick up Bomarzo. I’m 42 pages in but tonight the wor…

"Left eye: sun through the window, bare branches, a Pittsburgh December sky.

Right eye: The Matisse print on the wall lopsided. Lydia Delectorskya weeping, melting."

Right Eye, Left Eye — @kentkosack.bsky.social

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"Left eye: the usual clarity minus the usual degradation of age.

Right eye: a joke. A taunt. Ink running like the yolk in over-easy eggs. The technician dilates my pupils."

– @kentkosack.bsky.social

Right Eye, Left Eye — Kent Kosak A Thursday night like any other. My eyes are tired but no more so than usual. I brush my teeth, undress, turn on the bedside lamp, lie down, and pick up Bomarzo. I’m 42 pages in but tonight the wor…

Right Eye, Left Eye — Kent Kosak minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...

My 2025 best books, over at Dorian’s blog:

Two books: Slow Elephants of Milan by Ángel Bonomini (Aug) and Abyss by Jeyamohan (April)

Wrapping a good week for book mail, two forthcoming titles from @transitbooks.bsky.social , due in August and April.