Marianna Suleymanova

At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine A new photo book by Eddy van Wessel, with nearly two hundred images taken over the course of three years, offers a visual history of the war’s devastation.

In Eddy van Wessel’s photographs of Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, he develops an intimacy with the country and its people that, on the page, is both painful and revealing.

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The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session!
📍 Where: Zoom
🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET
📨 Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com

Drop on in!📚

Séamas O'Reilly: I discovered my own memoir had been used to train Meta AI I hate that writers and artists must suffer the indignity of being pickpocketed by the richest men who’ve ever lived.

Having my book stolen by Meta to train their large language models doesn't feel great. But it does present me with another opportunity to declare how much, and how vehemently, I hate everything that Big AI's snake-oil peddling hypemen stand for.

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Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation A highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fiction

Hurray for Jen Calleja.

Translators do so much to support literature. Not just the act of translation but in terms of talent scouting, pitching books, promoting writers (all unpaid). An essential part of literature as a cultural force, not just an "industry."

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Thank you! I read you this morning in @anmlymag.bsky.social ! Was so impressed with how you’d kept a perfect rhytm to the prose🖤🥁

Bloody thrilled to share my translation of Evgenia Nekrasova’s horned tale on the perils of patriarchy. Deep gratitude to @theoffingmag.bsky.social for giving this banger a home🖤🩸

Evgenia Nekrasova — Washington Square Review Issue 53 Spring 2025

Delighted to report that I have a new translation out in issue 53 of Washington Square Review, on the nature of hope in a cold world. Give it a read 🖤❄️
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Sara Gear is the best interviewer in the business.

This was a delightful read, I found the exploration of ‘dual identity’ especially resonant

Blowing Up Borders | An Interview with Cristina Rivera Garza By Federico Perelmuter

“I think that when the translation is strong, it can even change the book’s genre.”

📌 ICYMI, Federico Perelmuter interviewed Cristina Rivera Garza for our summer issue southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

Summer growth spurt📈🌱

"Old Töleutai's Grandson,"a short story by Didar Amantay in my translation, is in a new Epiphany magazine's spring/summer issue. Thank you to editors Willard Cook and Heather Gluck for giving the story a home. The issue can be purchased here: epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany....

Thursdays on the Stoop: Getting Started in Literary Translation — Blue Stoop Thursdays on the Stoop is a series of free, virtual writing workshops led for and by our community members. With topics ranging from generative prompts to editing strategies, these informal workshops ...

Doing a free, online event this week with fellow Philly-based literary translators through Blue Stoop! Come see my brilliant friends + me as Stoop Kid

As President Trump pushes to exclude trans women from sports, a Philly group is creating new leagues for inclusion Stonewall Philly, which has been supporting LGBTQ+ athletes since 2014, now has women, trans, non-binary (WTNB) leagues.

for @phillyvoice.com:

As President Trump pushes to exclude trans women from sports, a Philly group is creating new leagues for inclusion www.phillyvoice.com/stonewall-ph...

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

This week, @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s reporting on the floods in Kerr County has been so purposeful and so deeply empathetic. It was personal. This first person account is so, so horrific and so beautifully written.

You’ll cry very hard.
(CW: Child death.)

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New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

Anyway if you'd like to read twenty-two years worth of fiction translated by actual talented humans, head right this way:

wordswithoutborders.org/read/type/fi...

This year we're celebrating five years of khōréō! 🥳

To thank our community for supporting us, we are sharing a series of essays & interviews. The first essay, "Haunting, Haunted," is by @anovelescape.bsky.social edited by @danaiwrites.bsky.social: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

Everyone I met at Bread Loaf is my friend. Thank you for an unforgettable week🖤📚🍦

met a neuroscientist who trained an LLM on thousands of parables and was stunned by its capacity to interpret. no human could have done it, they said. a lot of ai amazement is people brushing against the humanities, being unable to imagine the scope of our work, the time it takes, the skills we have

Russia Arrests Publishers, Accuses Them of Distributing ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Russian authorities have put two current and one former employee of Eksmo—Russia’s largest publishing house—under house arrest, accusing them of distributing “LGBT propaganda.

And also, don't miss Ed Nawotka's related Publishers Weekly piece:

Thrilled for #pioneersummer pub day today! Congrats to the coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova ❤️🎉 and deepest thanks to Ruby Pucillo, Taryn Roeder, @abbymuller.bsky.social, @zackknoll.bsky.social, Jamison Stoltz, and the rest of the Abrams team for making this such a fantastic book.

Hey Chicago! Come see me read from #pioneersummer tomorrow night at City Lit Books, in conversation with the rad and talented Ali Kinsella!

Now announcing the release of Issue 5.2! ❤️‍🔥 Read our table of contents to see the new stories and their excerpts! If you haven’t subscribed already, head over to our website to buy a copy: www.khoreomag.com/category/iss...

This incredible cover is by Changyu Zou 🧡

Of course, being multilingual does not make one a translator. Writing well in English is no doubt important, but I’ve seen folks prioritize that over source language command and the results are sad and often caricature-like, especially when it comes to translating any cultural elements/nuances

Good point, but also it’s quite difficult to reproduce what you don’t understand