Fionn Petch

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Awfully tempted to leave this typo in… 😱♥️
#amediting

La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.

"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"

LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas

www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com

I am already enchanted. Especially with the recurrence of the linden tree, as I have spent the last couple of days working up one...

(I am having to hide the cover from my parents, as there would be questions!)

Look what was waiting for me in Scotland… @alinaetc.bsky.social

hang on you're a Scot?! why did I not know this

are you in Berlin and if so why aren't you round at mine drinking tea?

10-15 mins! no wonder their nerves are in tatters...

Our own @elusiveword.bsky.social will be talking to Velia Vidal this weekend at Berlin's International Lit Festival! She will discuss her autofictional text and her work for a literary festival in Chocó, a region of tropical forests in northwestern Colombia.
literaturfestival.com/en/events/ve...

Lucía Lijtmaer & Monika Radojevic: Fuelled by Rage From Wed 20 Aug - Sharp writing and incisive perspectives are the hallmarks of Lucía Lijtmaer (Cautery) and Monika Radojevic (A Beautiful Lack of Consequence). Join them for a vital conversation about...

"A powerful book that manages something I’ve never really read before. I was entranced,” Mark Haber. If you are lucky to be in Edinburgh, Lucía Lijtmaer will be appearing today along Monika Radojevic at the EIBF. Do you want to be entranced? Read CAUTERY.
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

This novel and its translation blew my mind. My review will be out later this month (hopefully), too, but honestly don’t bother with what I have to say, just buy it.

Stefan Tarnowski | Plausible Deniability From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...

‘The politics of access to Gaza has helped sustain Western complicity in the genocide, despite the steady stream of evidence produced by Palestinians at enormous risk to their own lives. What it amounts to isn’t denial so much as plausible deniability.’

From the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Wise words...

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

"The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable... History will judge not just those who committed these crimes, but those who stood by and watched."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

⦾HAARETZ Israel News Defense Minister Says Israel Plans to oncentrateAll Gaza's Population in 'Humanitarian Zone Builton Rafah'sRuins

interesting verb

“Uncompromising (…). A rousing story of migration and identity.” Brilliant review of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (tr. Fionn Petch) in the @IrishTimes. Thanks always to Catherine Taylor
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

We can't wait to get our paws on this book by a WWB contributor author/translator duo ( @elusiveword.bsky.social ) ! Here's an excerpt from another recent collaboration published by Charco Press, YOU SHALL LEAVE YOUR LAND:

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation

“This is worse than Putin’s Russia... It’s 10 years for doing what we’re doing today in Russia; it’s 14 years in the UK, because of Yvette Cooper’s outrageous betrayal of democracy, liberalism, and what is in my view a step towards fascism.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Caution has turned to cowardice – the BBC is failing viewers with its Gaza coverage | Karishma Patel The craven failure to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is just the latest example of skewed journalistic values over Israel’s war, says former BBC journalist Karishma Patel

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The World We Saw Burning” by Renato Cisneros (tr. @elusiveword.bsky.social , Charco Press) is “a fascinatingly structured novel” with insight into “borders, national identity, and the concept of ‘home.’” bookshop.org/a/169/978191...

that is about as high a recommendation as they come... will seek it out

A quick hi from Renato Cisneros, author of THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING (tr. Fionn Petch), landing NEXT TUESDAY! Get your copy now. charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

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THE WORLD WE SAW BURNING by Renato Cisneros (trans. @elusiveword.bsky.social) is "a novel of extraordinary complexity, with dazzling prose, where the characters encounter history, the past and themselves." - El Mundo

Out 24th June! charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

Normal people call this a carjacking.

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We have some great Father’s Day gift options! Available at your lovely local bookshop, or direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore

Philip Glass: The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, ACT V - The Rome Section Philip Glass · EP · 1999 · 4 songs

though if we're talking actual opera my go to oblivion album is Glass/Wilson, the Civil Wars, in case you don't know it
open.spotify.com/album/7BdNvc...

full immersion required, all or nothing

Drop Site News Drop Site 17, @DropSiteNews BREAKING: Israeli forces burned to death 9 children of Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, in a strike on her home in Khan Younis. Civil defense crews recovered 9 bodies — 8 of them completely charred children — after extinguishing the fire. Dr. Al-Najjar was on shift when she learned that all 9 of her children had been killed. GRAPHIC

Israel bombed the home of two doctors in Gaza, killed nine of their children, and injured the father and another child. The deceased children’s names were:

Yahya
Rakan
Raslan
Jubran
Eve
Rivan
Sideen
Luqman
Sidra

(I’m not going to put the graphic photos or video evidence here, but I’ve seen them.)