It's finally happened, I'm caught up with reading all of the lovely literary links that @bookjotter.bsky.social compiles when she's not #reading and #bookbuying and Moomin-ing. Here's the latest! Winding Up the Week #441 bookjotter.com/2025/10/04/w...

Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : SEP 27-OCT 10, 2025 GRAVE : aucun TRÈS ÉLEVÉ : MB, TNL, NÉ, SK ÉLEVÉ : CAN, AB, CB, NB, Nord, ON, ÎPÉ, QC MODÉRÉ : aucun Environ 1 personne sur 60 est actuellement infectée au Canada.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC, MODERATE: none About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, The scapegoat (#Review) whisperinggums.com/2025/10/09/p... (The cover photo of the anthology features the inimitable ZNH with her stylish hat, but there is also an image of PLD in the discussion of this #shortstory by @whisperinggums.bsky.social)

Among other things, I learned about the new Hilary Mantel Prize for unpublished writers, from the weekly links that @bookjotter.bsky.social gathers for #bookish peeps. bookjotter.com/2025/09/27/w...

Moving on, in her reading of Anita Brookner, @jacquiwine.bsky.social: "Once again, Brookner proves herself to be ruthlessly precise and perceptive in her portrayal of human nature, complete with all the flaws and failings this condition encompasses." jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/a...

One of the many #bookish links in the weekly wind-up from @bookjotter.bsky.social about this favourite writer's routines: I laughed out loud at the 8pm slot in Le Guin's schedule! anarrativeoftheirown.substack.com/p/writing-ri...

Three Things + #8: Summer Summation bookjotter.com/2025/09/10/t... Among other pleasures, @bookjotter.bsky.social includes reflections on Anne Morrow Lindbergh's classic Gift from the Sea. A true single-sitting read!

The Question Every #Writer Dreads In her #memoir, "A Truce That Is Not Peace," Miriam Toews confronts why we write at all Interviewed by Rachel Lyon | electricliterature.com/the-question... Via @electricliterature.com

Review: The Longest Night (Freehand Books) Lauren Carter “thoughtfully unpacks the emotional journey that moving through time might entail.…what [Ash] does and how it affects her and the people around her are what’s important and interesting about the novel.” @lpgcanada.bsky.social bit.ly/3Jhyiy7

“The Book of Records asks each of us how we might go on with our lives when our expectations and usual way of life are swept away in the blink of an eye.” Miho Kinnas reviews Madeleine Thien’s fourth novel. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

“By choosing to examine the powers that bind us, we can empower ourselves.” Amber M. Durst looks at 10 international new and upcoming horror novels for fall. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...

"How has Sheinbaum’s first year in power unfolded? What defines her initial administration in terms of democracy and human rights?" www.wola.org/analysis/cla... Via @wola-org.bsky.social

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Catherine Cooper's Lásko (pub. Freehand Books)! ...Connection proves not only desirable but essential: connection outward, yes, but inward too... ​ www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-coo...

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of ​Éric Chacour's What I Know About You (pub. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) in Iss. 32! What is extraordinary? Chacour’s deft balancing and bridging: between ambiguity and clarity, between understanding and revisioning www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-cha...

Lee Rossi reviewed two new poetry anthologies, "At the Corner of Hope and Despair: An Anthology for the Trump Era" and "Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age," for Portside.org:

"Still, having one’s ideas confirmed too often risks complacency. Keeping that at bay requires fiction that not only evokes the need for change but demonstrates its possibility." lithub.com/on-the-conse... Via #lithub (And I wish their share button included BlueSky!)

First came the wildfire. Then came the scams. As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Wildfire #Scam #Scams #Disaster #Climate #Environment #Weather #Wildfires

This should not be limited to English. We've reached out to people who can help with lists of Palestinian lit in Turkish, Indonesian, Malayalam, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German. If you can help with these or other languages, please message. arablit.org/2025/09/08/l...

Our new audio series is here: Personals, writers reading their first-person essays. Episode one features Ottessa Moshfegh reading from her essay on renovating a house soaked in nicotine—and her haunting encounter with its former owner. buff.ly/BrreVVu

History is supposedly written by the victors. Sima Qian, author of China's original historical classic, showed it could also be written by the condemned. Read Jeremiah Jenne's essay on the urtext for Chinese history, the Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/09/s...

"Between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced a brutal internal armed conflict between the Maoist Shining Path insurgency and the Peruvian State. A truth commission found that 70,000 people were killed and that 75 percent of the victims were Indigenous rural farmers." www.wola.org/analysis/per...

I really like her description of "[w]eird, evasive, jellified" answers to questions: evocative and recognisable! www.thenation.com/article/soci... Article at @thenation.com Link followed via #Lithub

“Reviewing is all about finding affinities with a book and helping spread the web, echoes, and resonances that keep writing alive.” Alice-Catherine Carls, a reviewer for WLT since 1979, answers 8 questions about book reviewing. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Ming Di takes a look at how US poets have been reviewed in China recently. The results offer a window into what reviewers are seeing in US poets’ work and which poets are most popular in China. (Spoiler alert: Ocean Vuong is as popular there as he is here.) worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

“Throughout Bibhutibhushan’s tales, the common thread is his broad humanistic engagement.” Gargi Dutta reviews Kaleidoscope of Life, Hiranmoy Lahiri’s translations of sixteen of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s short stories. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

A #bookreview by Parul Kapur (fellow @bookcritics.bsky.social member) of the new Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me. "In this book, we glimpse the intimate silence and public outrage that define Arundhati Roy." And Girija Sankar on Indian Country by Shobha Rao. www.khabar.com/magazine/fea...

Yes, COVID Vaccines Do Slow Transmission canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/09/05/y... by @deonandan.bsky.social

Margaret Atwood is a national treasure

Making of a #Poem: Yongyu Chen "It felt like the feeling of wanting to pick up the oak pieces—and noticing it, then making myself do so—did something to the previous experiences. When I came home, I started writing the poem." www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09... Via @parisreview.bsky.social

Andrea Hairston (@andreahairston.bsky.social) introduces and reads from her novel Archangels of Funk, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

More chatter about another shortlistee for this year's Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction from @billlegend.bsky.social. On North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher. Pub by @neonhemlock.bsky.social theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/n...

Fabulous suggestions for Spinster September from @jacquiwine.bsky.social (and I'm not just saying that cuz it opens with my beloved Pym's Quartet in Autumn!): jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/s...

Once more, @bookjotter.bsky.social has a bunch of lovely bookish links about #reading #publishing #bookselling and #librarying (hee hee) and once more I'm a little behind exploring them, but still having fun with them all. Enjoy! bookjotter.com/2025/08/23/w...

Was at Koroneihana to hear Te Arikinui Kuini a Ngā wai hono i te pō Māori Queen launches two economic initiatives during her first national address www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

I've read and enjoyed more than half of these, so now want to read the rest! 7 Debut Collections About Knowing a Place Across Generations These authors capture the power and privilege of staying List by @riggstah.bsky.social Pub'd on @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/7-debut-coll...

There are extra Moomins in this (belated) weekly Wind-Up from @bookjotter.bsky.social opening with this lovely Tove Jansson quote: “Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it’s mine.” bookjotter.com/2025/08/09/w... Recent news and reviews and thoughts about #books, #reading & #publishing.

‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues

Loved this, @aimeeddunn.bsky.social quillandquire.com/omni/too-sma...

A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/29/j... Via @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy

Preferring the Company of Parrots and Dogs Nolan Kelly watches two movie adaptations of Sigrid Nunez novels, “The Room Next Door” and “The Friend.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/pref... Via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Five Reasons Why Trump’s Anti-Cartel Military Plan Will Fail www.wola.org/analysis/fiv... Via @wola-org.bsky.social

The Regional Committee on First Nations Languages has outed a disparity in language funding in Quebec. Quebec is providing $717 million over five years to protect French, but some say the same effort is not met for revitalizing First Nation languages.

Kinew says a preliminary search of the city-run Brady Road landfill for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose started this week.

submissions are rolling in don't be left out. looking at poetry, fiction, cnf, art work. BHP is inclusive baby. (🚫Ai thanks!)

Fall Readings for my poetry collection UNMET (Biblioasis 2025) @biblioasis.bsky.social #poetry #poet #Canlit #Booksky www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...

A new biography reveals the innermost thoughts of the groundbreaking novelist whose work in the 1980s and ’90s predicted our lives right now. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Constantine Cavafy: The Making of a Poet Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys on the Artistic Journey of Modern Greek Literature’s Most Distinguished Poetic Voice Via @fsgbooks.bsky.social and #LitHub lithub.com/constantine-...

Dispatch from the Border: Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas www.wola.org/analysis/dis... via @wola-org.bsky.social