Tayi Tibble from Aoteatroa/New Zealand reading from a work in progress for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Fion Tse from Hong Kong reading an excerpt from her translation of a novel by Lo Yu for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Tomas Downey from Argentina reading a short story for @UIIWP at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Andra Schwarz from Germany reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Roy Horovitz from Israel reading an essay for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Julia Musakovska from Ukraine reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Devanshi Khetrapal from India reading a short story for the @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Myle Yan Tay from Singapore reading from his new novel for @UIIWP at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... What have we become?

What a disaster: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/a...

Look what just arrived in the mail!

Delighted to read this conversation with Zhang Yueran (IWP 2016): granta.com/never-again-...

Thrilled to have a copy of my old friend Gail Wronsky's dazzling new book:

What can I say?

Today, we want to share a few essential pieces exploring the impact of federal cuts to arts programs and aid programs. First, @clmerrill.bsky.social‬'s accepted speech from the 2025 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... (1)

Today on WWB: read 2025 Ottaway Awardee and IWP director @clmerrill.bsky.social‬ 's remarks from our June 3rd ceremony, which call for us to see these cuts—to USAID and to IWP—as inextricably linked (2). wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Grateful to @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing my remarks upon receiving the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.

On June 3rd, we presented @clmerrill.bsky.social‬ with the 2025 Ottaway Award. On WWB, you can read Tom Sleigh’s laudation, which was read by Alane Salierno Mason. Stay tuned for Merrill’s own remarks tomorrow! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Delighted to have this new book by the great Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, in the elegant translations of Paul Scott Derrick & Viorica Patea. @uiiwp.bsky.social

Join us virtually for the 2025 Ottaway Award ceremony on 6/3, with a laudation by Alane Salierno Mason and remarks from Ottaway winner @clmerrill.bsky.social ! You can also catch a recording on our YouTube channel after. Learn more and RSVP: buff.ly/v5bKFCT

Good news: www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Announcing “The Art* of Defending Artists 3.0”, a unique programme designed to teach you how to navigate legal frameworks to defend artists.

Required reading: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!

So this happened: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

This is the emergency: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history: 1. Trump, 3/16/20 -2,997.10 2. Trump, 3/12/20 -2,352.60 3. Trump, 3/9/20 -2,013.76 4. Trump, 6/11/20 -1,861.82 5. Trump, 4/3/25 -1,679.39 6. Trump, 3/11/20 -1,464.94 7. Trump, 03/18/20 -1,338.46 Tired of winning yet?

IWP’s work is in the national interest www.thegazette.com/staff-editor...

International Writing Program is another great national treasure that we are losing. Culture and arts programming run on shoe-string budgets and create so much good diplomacy. American goodness and diplomacy are being replaced by cruelty and brutality

The incredible legacy of the @IWP will prevail in this new era. It will rebuild in the creativity, cultural exchanges and lifelong friendships it has fostered—and the vibrant voices still to come. 🌍✨ #IWP #HopeForWriters #CulturalExchange

Everything good, they destroy.

The end of an era... now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/03...

I Ran U.S.A.I.D. Killing It Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

Holy hell. nymag.com/intelligence...

The faculty has arrived for the fab Todos Santos Writers Workshop, and I’m feeling beyond fortunate to be here. @jeannemcculloch.bsky.social @clmerrill.bsky.social

Trump Is Going Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

How ‘Mild Bill’ Burns led a covert CIA campaign in Ukraine www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

It is notable because Hegseth's lawyers threatened to sue them if the testify, having outed whistleblowers, and Senators refused to meet with them privately.

GILLIBRAND: Give me one example. I get you're making these generalized statements HEGSETH: Commanders meet quotas to have a certain numbers of female infantry officers GILLIBRAND: Commanders do not have to have a quota for commanders in the infantry. That does not exist.

This article doesn't say it explicitly, but if the US designates cartels as terrorist organizations and starts bombing Mexico and sending SOF into Mexican territory, all the current law enforcement coordination and cooperation with Mexico (& others) goes away. www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/p...

Eliot Weinberger bringing the heat: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is what I would have preferred to see.

Han Kang's Nobel lecture is now online. Please note that this was filmed *before* the events of 12/3 and only *released* now.

What Doctors Like Me Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

In just two weeks, rebel forces tore across Syria, shattering the stalemate left by more than a decade of civil war and bringing an end to more than five decades of brutal rule by the Assad dynasty. See how it unfolded in photos, videos and maps. nyti.ms/3ZvtObz