Please DM me if you know a lot about rakugo and are interested in a paid writing gig.

Big news for those who are interested in our online translation courses but haven't been able to commit due to the time difference! We now offer the option to receive recordings of all weekly classes instead of joining in real-time✨ Learn more here: www.jvtacademy.com/learning-sty...

'I based horror game on working in a Scottish chippy' - @deepcrypt.games

Park Chan-wook will be president of the Cannes Film Festival jury, marking the first South Korean president in the history of the festival. The festival runs from May 12-23.

A primer on jidai-geki I wrote for Japan House's upcoming 'Samurai on screen: honour, swordplay and film legends' film season in London, running 15 February – 24 June 2026. www.japanhouselondon.uk/read-and-wat...

Claire Richards will lead the Korean Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026 ✨ Claire is an award-winning translator of Korean literature 📚 ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 🌞 Find out more, apply and download an example programme: www.uea.ac.uk/.../british-...

Plan to scrap many jury trials in England and Wales despite criticism www.channel4.com/news/plan-to...

Presenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

Souvenir Press has acquired three bestselling non-fiction books by South Korean Buddhist monk Bokyeong Sunim 👇 #BookSky

Conçu par la #Nikkatsu comme une série B au budget resserré, LE VAGABOND DE TOKYO devient, sous la patte iconoclaste et virtuose de #SeijunSuzuki, un monument de mise en scène et une ode à la couleur d’une modernité époustouflante.

The long wait is over. On April 17th, legendary anime AKIRA roars back onto PCC screens, restored in 4K and looking more apocalyptic than ever. The on sale date is soon to be confirmed, so keep an eye out and prepare for something special. 🔗 : buff.ly/F43CR2y

Our February releases are out today! Including a gothic proto-giallo, an adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy, a sprawling Japanese crime saga, and the second TX release exploring the magic and chaos of movie-making. All titles are now shipping from our site and available at retailers.

'2026 is the year of the horse.' The horse:

so @amcinematheque.bsky.social has an amazing Naruse retrospective just beginning www.americancinematheque.com/series/mikio... #filmsky

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

So the management decision is to restructure with the aim of cutting academic jobs in East Asian Studies. This decision is based on a false narrative of decline and financial unsustainability, despite management’s own figures showing that we continue to generate well in excess of our costs.

A number of literary agencies are adding amendments to their submission guidelines urging authors not to use AI in their submissions, as signs of its use become more prevalent 👇 #BookSky

I've decided to post more vintage crime stuff from my magazine collection. So here's the cover of the March 1938 edition of The Strand Magazine featuring Dorothy L Sayers' immortal detective Lord Peter Wimsy. The story inside is the classic The Haunted Policeman #DorothLSayers #detectives #detection

I think the key thing to grasp is that although the British are obsessed with class hierarchy, the signifiers and criteria are in fact pretty arbitrary, not in the sense that such things are always arbitrary, but that there’s no real agreement on them and a lot of it’s vibes.

We invented the Internet to work remotely. Then developed all the tools we might need. Then had a world historical event prove that remote work was effective and necessary.

WOMAN IN THE DUNES returns to the PCC from a rarely screened 35mm print on Sun 1st March at 5:35pm and Sun 26th Apr at 11:45. 🎟️: buff.ly/cLL6ABP

“Yuzuki believes that books about the struggle of insecure work, including Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) and Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job (translated by Barton), opened doors to Western readers.” #translation #booksky #japan

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

Entre critique sociale acerbe, drame avant-gardiste et comédie corrosive, #SeijunSuzuki dessine avec tendresse et audace l’inoubliable portrait d’une jeune femme intrépide, rebelle et opiniâtre. CARMEN DE KAWACHI est à découvrir au cinéma le 11 mars prochain, dans sa nouvelle restauration 4K !

Faber is hiring a Children’s Marketing Manager to work on books from picture books up to YA. Apply by 1 March 2026. faber.co.uk/careers/childrens-marketing-manager

ANNOUNCEMENT 2 As you are likely already aware, @starfruitbooks.bsky.social founder and publisher Matt Haasch passed away last September. In line with his wishes, I have been working with Matt’s mother and the rest of the Star Fruit Books team to ensure a continuation to their publishing work.

Kes and Sammy's Super T-Shirt, plus about half an hour of terrifying public information films about why it's bad to play near pylons and railway tracks

"I’m not the first translator to say that translation can feel like a seance. There are all these voices and references at play in the text, and then you channel them like a medium – what do you hear, what do you mishear?" Michelle & I interviewed by English PEN pentransmissions.com/2026/02/19/n...

On fête les 50 ans des studios #Kadokawa ! Un studio qui a changé l’histoire du cinéma japonais par sa stratégie non conventionnelle qui créa un véritable engouement. La #Cinémathèquefrançaise rendra hommage aux studios lors de la 13e édition de leur festival qui aura lieu du 11 au 15/03.

I'm hiring for an editorial assistant here at L,B! If you're someone who is interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, and nonfiction that deals with big ideas, please apply here: jobs.jobvite.com/careers/hach...

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

VHS FOREVER 📼 Coming to the Criterion Channel in March!

This is an amazing, important interview. But they don't name the translator. If it was done the same way as more conventional book promotion, it's likely to have been one of the translators of her book. But why is it so impossible for people to name the translator when translation occurs?

GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX —SEASON 1 🩶 Coming to the Criterion Channel in March!

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it

for my Italian readers, I contributed an essay on the later phase of Kinoshita Keisuke’s career (Love and Separation in Sri Lanka, Oh, My Son!, The Young Rebels, and Children of Nagasaki) to this volume: Nubi di primavera Il cinema di Kinoshita Keisuke www.cuepress.com/prodotto/gia...

In an interview for Asymptote Journal, Hiromitsu Koiso discusses his career as a translator, including his experiences translating the works of Anne Carson and Teju Cole: "I feel I was able to introduce a truly remarkable work to Japanese readers and to the literary scene."

There’s an excellent episode of the Screenshot podcast on this where they speak to Darcy Paquet about translations (his own include Parasite and No Other Choice) - it’s well worth a listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

So. This is what separates a good translator from a mediocre one. A mediocre translator looks at the word. Then translates the word. They have no knowledge of context beyond the word. A good translator knows that words carry information. The word itself is not important. What is important is (1)

Some traditions are sacred. youtu.be/gj_aHCpZl4k?...

Very rare screening of Michiyoshi Doi's Impure Nuns at this year's Flare

Did you know you can read all the Shinichi Hoshi Prize winning stories for free?? So much flash fiction for your reading enjoyment!

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

Name a random song from the 60’s you love Blue Bird by The Tigers

Four Akira Kurosawa films playing at the BFI IMAX to coincide with the British Museum's Samurai exhibition

One of the frustrating things about this is talented translators will move to better paying agencies or will put in less effort, so the client's going to get poorer and poorer quality translations without knowing it. OR they'll find out and stop using that agency. They're only hurting themself.

You wouldn’t translate a car’s ハンドル as “handle”. You wouldn’t translate a ハイタッチ as “high touch”. So why would you translate 「」 as “”? True facts: 99% of the time, you shouldn’t, and here’s why. Translation theory thread!🧵👇

Découvrez la sublime affiche de GINZA COSMETICS de #MikioNaruse, à retrouver au cinéma le 15 avril dans sa nouvelle restauration 4K ! ✨️ Un film phare du néoréalisme japonais qui brille par la formidable prestation de #KinuyoTanaka, actrice fétiche de #YasujiroOzu et #KenjiMizoguchi.

I recently had the privilege to take part in an email interview with literary researcher Jane Eksie about my thoughts on translation, liminality, and other Japanese literature-related topics. It was fun! Please go check it out ✨ (beware: there is a Trinity Trinity Trinity spoiler near the end!)

Hugely important story in tomorrow’s Guardian. Domestic violence suicides growing at a rate that a woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner. But official stats may track as few as 10% of the true number. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...