if only there were a well-known and oft-cited line from Shakespeare to express this sentiment

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

New Yorkers, did you know Gov. Hochul could sign into law protections for school libraries any time she cares to? We don't need to wait. Let her know you want this done now. Come to Union Square on Monday and join me, @authorsabb.bsky.social and other orgs to remind her what's sitting on her desk

definitely should not have commuted in a blizzard but at least it was cozy at the store

idk man, must we?

humanities scholars today

humanities scholars today

the Sudan Solidarity Collective has partners in El Fashir distributing aid. give what you can bsky.app/profile/nisr...

forgot to post this

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

Today I met by chance a customer who turned out to be the President of the @spencerruchti.bsky.social Fan Club — a contested and coveted position

taped this to the register and sharing the quoted post with the staff so everyone is prepared

yesterday a couple from Birmingham AL came into the store when I was wearing my @thankyoubooks.bsky.social hat ❤️

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

yesterday a customer came up to the counter with this book and I said “it *is* such a con,” and he said “yeah, it is. and I work in AI…”

Wtf. Two of the victims at the Manchester Synagogue were shot by the Greater Manchester Police. One of them died. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

On this day in 1940, Walter Benjamin took his own life in the town of Portbou, after being denied entry by Spanish officials. “If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.” - The Listener

This is a disgusting, horrifying weaponization of the courts to continue the administration’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil for free speech

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

i sent an order their way and you can to: loyaltybookstores.com

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

In case you're still wondering how vile Sylvan Adams is on multiple fronts, this article has a run through of some of his grossest hits. 😬 And yes, it really is that simple. You can race as shiny happy PR for a genocidal regime OR you can race uninterrupted. Not both. 🍉 defector.com/you-can-adve...

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

got an @asterismbooks.bsky.social account for the store and I’m going on a spree. everyone what are your favorite books from asterism publishers??

got an @asterismbooks.bsky.social account for the store and I’m going on a spree. everyone what are your favorite books from asterism publishers??

I wrote something about writers from Chicago. open.substack.com/pub/meltedch...

I hope so

Hi hello we are finally on here! In lieu of introductions here’s a picture of our turtle, John. 🐢

Sally Rooney vows to support Palestine Action with BBC royalties despite terror ban

The fact that they’re building concentration camps should matter profoundly even if you or your loved ones aren’t in direct danger of getting rounded up, but don’t think for a second that that status can’t change. Safety is conditional.

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hey quick question, what the fuck

With apologies, as always, for the substack link 😡—an excellent, concise list of direct actions to take re: Gaza. open.substack.com/pub/blindarc...

Chris Smalls was profiled by every major media outlet when he lead Amazon victory on Staten Island. Shocking that not one outlet has covered the IDF detaining him in the Gaza flotilla

Just a little campus free speech update. I assume Harper’s is on it

A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

One of the most prominent scholars of historical memory in the field of Jewish Studies, who teaches at Columbia, fears she will no longer be able to teach Hannah Arendt with the new federal government control over the university: apnews.com/article/colu...

we will brook no guillaume martin erasure

happy bastille day. tear down the prisons and build bridges with the rubble 🧱

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba