@sabirsultan.bsky.social
He/him. Books & events at PEN America. Previously Strand Bookstore & B&N. Views my own.
Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
Nice review! I’m going to check it out!
18.11.2025 03:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody have surged. A prison guard describes rampant abuse
apnews.com/article/isra...
Applications are now open for the 2026 DREAMing Out Loud program! This creative writing initiative supports emerging migrant writers in New York City. The program runs from February to April 2026. Apply today at: pen.org/fellowships/...
11.11.2025 01:32 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
In our new PEN Ten interview, Aja Gabel discusses how she has developed as a writer with her new novel Lightbreakers (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social, 2025) which follows the story of a husband and wife grappling with loss. Read more: pen.org/aja-gabel-th...
08.11.2025 17:51 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Love Marilyn Hacker!
05.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m in a full on Rebaissance;
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7v...
It’s not 😂 it does something odd to his jaw too. Somehow it seems infinitely wider than the top half of his head.
31.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think one is taller?
31.10.2025 02:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I started the Witcher season 4. Spent a full ten minutes marveling at how Liam Hemsworth and Henry Cavill are identical. Thinking to myself, it’s crazy how much they look alike. Wild. Realized I had mistakenly started season one episode one. Started season 4. I still can’t tell them apart.
31.10.2025 02:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
Amen, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
Out today!
21.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Avery Review | In Fragments, in Fire: Four Books from Gaza averyreview.com/issues/72/fr...
21.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In our new PEN Ten interview, our 2025 Emerging Voices Fellows explore what inspires their writing and the community that they have found amongst other creatives. Read more: https://pen.org/2025-emerging-voices-fellows-the-pen-ten-interview/
19.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0"Gonzalez-Garcia is 15 but has the cognitive ability of a 5-year-old, Espinosa said... 'We want to push back on the narrative that HPD has said that during these 4 hours, they determined that Emmanuel was an unaccompanied minor because he told them. Emmanuel cannot hold a conversation for 4 hours.'"
14.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 48 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0“I see more opportunity in telling truer, fuller stories about the guilty—not the lurid ones that end with the conviction…”
12.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It is here and I cannot wait!
08.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing new essay by THE Patricia Smith on aging and how poets see time. So funny & moving.
lithub.com/patricia-smi...
The Cultural Destruction of Gaza
pen.org/report/all-t...
Today my mother called me to tell me she loved Yiyun Li’s Things In Nature Merely Grow. She told me she wanted to read the rest of her books. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
It’s a heartbreaking book. It’s also the best written book I’ve read this year. Buy it! Read it!
bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
The inimitable Rabih Alameddine will be at the Center for Fiction tonight discussing his new novel "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)." It's really good. Funny, heartbreaking, political, moving - the usual excellent mix.
Tickets below;
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
Classified Israeli army database indicates vast majority of 6,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza and detained in appalling conditions are civilians.
By Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
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07.09.2025 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know.
#ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware
Obsessed with the cover art of Ariane Koch's Overstaying (trans. by Damion Searls). It's so good.
04.09.2025 16:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Does anyone know of any recent memoirs, poetry collections, or novels by women of color chronicling infertility journeys?
03.09.2025 04:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“As I write these lines, I struggle to explain why humanistic study and language learning are not only important to the University of Chicago, but to our society at large. I struggle, because the importance of such things are truths that I, and many of my peers, hold to be self-evident.”
31.08.2025 01:58 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“These artifacts implore us to pay attention, to ensure that the next time genocide is inflicted upon a people, we do more than just bear witness their suffering.”
lithub.com/dr-seema-jil...
😂 He would have to go.
29.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
