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Impressive nonetheless!!!

Well done!

Photo of Jafar Panahi (& his translator) being interviewed at SIFF Uptown on November 20, 2025.

It was such an amazing experience! I could have listened to him talk for hours. Thank you!

SIFF Uptown’s marquee: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT w/Jafar Panahi

Almost time to see Jafar Panahi!!! @siffnews.bsky.social

He’s a good one. Super thoughtful.❤️

Drew even bought one of these for me for my birthday so I would always have a pencil at hand with the book I’m reading. 😂

I am incapable of reading without underlining. I must always have a pencil in hand. 😂

I know the book has many fans & I’m pretty sure @ds228.bsky.social is one.

It’s so good!! Highly recommend!

Each Time as Suddenly by Kasey Jueds

"Enter through a goneness, the way snow / finds the hole in the roof..."

"Each Time as Suddenly" by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social

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So beautiful!!! 🩵❄️🌀

Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume books I and II, book III coming out today

I hope everyone has the kind of November 18 you wouldn’t mind repeating indefinitely

Megan McDowell is in Seattle on Thursday & I wanted to go so badly, but Jafar Panahi is also in town that night & we have tickets to see him.

Episode 40: I Who Have Never Known Men Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat a…

Our conversation about Jacqueline Harpman's I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN is now available for your listening pleasure!
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Embodiment as Enigma: On Xi Xi’s “Mourning a Breast” - Cleveland Review of Books What illness and pain cast into relief is that our minds will always be lost in translation—and will always remain in a liminal space—somewhere between our embodiment and the outer world.

"What illness and pain cast into relief is that our minds will always be lost in translation—and will always remain in a liminal space—somewhere between our embodiment and the world." Mala Chatterjee on MOURNING A BREAST. #NYRBWomen25 clereviewofbooks.com/xi-xi-mourni...

MY CITY: A HONG KONG STORY by Xi Xi

THE TEDDY BEAR CHRONICLES by Xi Xi

THE MONKEY CHRONICLES by Xi Xi

There were a couple by other publishers that came up as readily available when I looked, although the chronicles are pricey & the monkey one isn't coming out until the 25th. It looks like a few others had been translated & released previously, but are out of print now?

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I finished Mourning a Breast this morning and feel sad to leave Xi Xi behind, having fallen for her friendship, erudition, her Hong Kong, and her unique way of discussing illness. I have to find more from her--I wonder if NYRB will be coming out with more XI XI?

I started THE QUEEN OF SWORDS this morning.

I started it this morning!

Thank you for sharing! I’ll listen this morning. I went to see the film again on Saturday at the Film Center. It’s such a beautiful time capsule & I love the insight into his artistic practice. Now I need a Susan Sontag’s Day. ;)

Want, want, want!!!

Painting by René Magritte: The Fanatics, 1955

Painting by René Magritte: The Presence of Spirit, 1960

Painting by René Magritte: The Banquet, 1958

Painting by René Magritte: The Lovers, 1928

“… a nurse came to the ward four times a day dispensing medications … I got one. It was the sort of thing depicted in a Magritte painting: one side gray, one side red— I was too lazy to imagine that one half was water, the other fire, or that one half was a fish, the other a cigar.“ #NYRBWomen25

MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi

“And so, I started learning the sword, move by move. Tai chi boxing and tai chi sword were originally the twin sisters of Chinese martial arts. If I didn’t perform well, it became a gentle exercise, but done beautifully, it was a dance.” #NYRBWomen25

YouTube video by MeetChinese💕 sword dance practice！ #chinesedancer #dance #chinadance #china #chinesedance #dancer #dancina

“When he wielded the sword, however, it seemed to carry a blend of strength & softness, a unique gracefulness. If the sword were gendered, as French words are, it probably would’ve originated as masculine & gradually turned feminine, in contrast to the knife.” #NYRBWomen25 youtu.be/0OvRPq1tsLs?...

It’s that time of year! The NYRB sale is on now! For those of you who want to be prepared for #NYRBWomen26, here’s our schedule. (Note: Cagnati, Lemann & Carrington aren’t being released until next year.) www.nyrb.com

Mini Blahaj blue stuffed shark with 2 books on green couch: Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi and Bleak House by Dickens.

The sharks and I are reading Bleak House with #APSTogether and Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi with #NYRBWomen25 What are you reading? #FridayReads

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Thank you! It was actually easier to choose 24 titles instead of 12. 😂🥰

I read your mind. 🥰

A collage of eight NYRB Classics: A House and its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett Free Day by Inès Cagnati Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant Angel by Elizabeth Taylor Family and Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morrante The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

Also updating the #NYRBWomen25 list. Eight excellent books to consider.