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‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian

‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: How George Came to See the World as Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...

A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter

A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

Opinion | The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.

“When the glaciers are all gone, what do you call an island that used to be Iceland? Just … Land?” asks Andri Snær Magnason, an Icelandic writer and filmmaker.

Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit

Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform

Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Thank you the Dewdrop!
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How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Tilted Axis Press Took a Big Risk on Translated Literature. It Paid Off. The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

Far Country: Poems Poems

Amazing book alert. You can now pre-order Kyce Bello's gorgeous new collection "Far Country"! It will be out March 4.

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Colored rectangles each with the shapes of a single pair of plant leaves or petals closing slightly more, and more, and then opening again.

“The colonization of time has not only deafened us to the rhythm of wild clocks; it has also eliminated, or at least sought to eliminate, the many Indigenous ways of timekeeping that would not coordinate with the priorities of empire-building.” —David Farrier
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<<Who can read /
across the vertiginous stanza /
breaks? And what /
possible explanation is there /
for our wrong turning, but our insistent / repetition of the wrong turning?>>

Marianne Faithfull, Chanteuse of Survival, Is Dead at 78 A fresh-voiced pop star and Mick Jagger’s muse in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times before emerging triumphant.

Marianne Faithfull, Chanteuse of Survival, Is Dead at 78 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a...

RIP

Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes Three years after starting a club meant to fight social media’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.

Now in College, Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/s...

Book Review: ‘Bright Circle,’ by Randall Fuller In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.

You Know Emerson and Thoreau. Why Not Their Female Counterparts? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/b...

#True

We are excited to announce that our special issue "Thread of Translations" (May–June 2024) is going to be out in two weeks from now!

It features translations of "Languages and Nation-States" by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil into thirty non-hegemonic languages.

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY VIA LINK IN BIO!