We commissioned The American Way in '21 after the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end. How wrong we were. 📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...

The Bolivarian Revolution by Simon Bolívar, featuring an introduction by Hugo Chávez, is free to download. "Bolívar foresaw the threat of the US and described it with surprising clarity: 'the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.'"

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

To understand President Trump's criminal strikes on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro, we need to see these actions in the context of America's century long history of foreign intervention, both overt and covert. THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...

‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.’…. Well, a light frosting at least.

The Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum was bombed in 1998 to draw focus away from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Just saying. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shif...

Anyone who’s shocked or even surprised by this morning’s news clearly isn’t that well versed in the history of American imperialism. Some suggested reading: commapress.co.uk/books/the-am... #Venezuela

Finally, short fiction and 3 out of the 18 collections read in the course of 2025 that really stood out. The Book of Bradford, from @commapress.bsky.social Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, Neil Campbell. You Never Get it Back, Cara Blue Adams.

One of my favourite things I did this year probably went under a lot of people’s radar. For the Bradford City of Culture, @commapress.bsky.social published The Book of Bradford, with my story about what might have been if Aleister Crowley visited the city in 1905. commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

Two Comma titles - The Book of Sana’a and Voices of Resistance - in @The_NewArab’s round up of 25 books of the year: From witness to resistance: The books that marked 2025 www.newarab.com/features/wit...

Ten Palestinian writers re-imagine #Palestine the year before the #Nakba – the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 – and explore the events leading up to it through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices. 📚 'Palestine Minus One' @commapress.bsky.social #booksky

‘It captures the eeriness of having an uncertain future in a place that has become totally lawless; it also has a surrealism that turns out not to be totally surreal - something I wanted for my film too.’ - Atropia director on Hassan Blasim in @NewYorker www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...

Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.

‘As a Palestinian, I am obsessed with the idea of ghosts in relation to our history. The fear deeply rooted in the Israeli consciousness is not of armed Palestinians—it is of Palestinian ghosts, of the remnants of a history they have not fully erased.’ - Anwar Hamed arablit.org/2025/12/15/o...

I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...

‘…can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?’

The BBC National Short Story Award anthology picked as one of The Guardian’s ‘for everyone’ Christmas present list. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain “Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

Oliver has an immense brain and an audacious soul, so this should be excellent.

Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! 🎟️🔥 Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

This was the hardest piece to write. Thank you EI for allowing me to share some of the abuses the media perpetrated against Refaat that led to his murder. electronicintifada.net/content/refa...

"[Palestine -1]'s 12 stories migrate through the connected and unspoken traumas of the land, its people, and their minds, working together to dismember the monsters of the past and present, and to restore a smiling promise of return." www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @commapress.bsky.social

in esteemed, fascinating and hilarious company tonight for the @northernfiction.bsky.social winter showcase 🫶 ❄️ 📚 tysm for having me @commapress.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @peepaltreepress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

'A land that produces so many beautiful poets, you can never kill it. We're here, we're not going anywhere.' We sat down with author Yara El-Ghadban to discuss her story 'The Forest of Saffouryeh' featured in Palestine - 1 🗝️📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcN...

Every week is #ReadPalestine Week

'From Saffouryeh’s buried scream to the final, obscene flood, every story in Palestine -1 is placed with surgical intent.' Read @kenyanbibliophile.bsky.social 's wonderful piece on Palestine - 1 in @arablit.bsky.social ❤️ arablit.org/2025/12/04/a...

Tonight!

Tonight! Includes @bronteschiltz.bsky.social reading a Nigel Kneale short story…

‘This struggle isn’t just for the Palestinians, it’s for everyone’ - Musheir El Farra at Manchester Museum launch of PALESTINE MINUS ONE.

well jingle my bells it's tomorrow! see you there @commapress.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

VOICES OF RESISTANCE is one of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's books of '25 🎉 'This is writing against atrocity, every line a pitch for freedom.' ✍️Jacqueline Rose 📕 Voices of Resistance by Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana, Ala'a Obaid & Batool Abu Akleen www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

'This is a book of love, in its most courageous and bare form.' Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇 📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

NFA WINTER SHOWCASE 📚⛄ 📅 TOMORROW @ 6:30pm 📍 @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f... Join us at Blackwell's for a cosy evening of stories, mince pies and wine 🥧🍷

The best book yet - maybe - from a Nobel laureate; a novel where PG Wodehouse makes a guest appearance; a book where Islamic State fighters are in need of Viagra; and two Scandinavian septologies, neither of which is by Jon Fosse. Me on five of the best works of translated fiction this year:

PALESTINE - 1 BOOK LAUNCH 📚🎉 We're excited to launch Palestine - 1 tomorrow at MCR Museum! Ft. reading of Yara El-Ghadban's 'The Forest of Saffouryeh', by special guest Leila Herandi & much more🌲 🎟️ SOLD OUT but if you've booked already we look forward to seeing you!

'This is an imaginative, audacious, exciting collection.' ✍️ @john-self.bsky.social names Iran + 100 among the best recent translated fiction in @theguardian.com What will Iran look like in 2053? 10 Iranian authors give their take (📗👇) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Read an extract from a new anthology from @commapress.bsky.social, PALESTINE - 1: STORIES FROM THE EVE OF THE NAKBA, a collection of Palestinian writing, ed. by Basma Ghalayini. 'I Swear, This All Happened' is a magical realist short story by Liana Badr, trans. by Maisa Almanasreh. buff.ly/ZUnJTWn

The Books of #Yorkshire… only available from Comma commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo... commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo... commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

ONLINE SCI-FI COURSE ✍️🚀 🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23 📍 Online Via Zoom Learn the art of Sci-Fi with Oliver K. Langmead & get published in a Comma Press eBook! 📚 Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...

'A simple and beautiful visual concept, perfectly executed.' Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for the spotlight on Palestine - 1's fab cover courtesy of David Eckersall 📚🎨 📙 Palestine - 1 (Ed. Basma Ghalayini) 👇🧵 lithub.com/the-15-best-...

A fantastic evening of memory, resistance and speculative fiction launching PALESTINE - 1 at @britishlibrary. Many thanks to Selma Dabbagh, Anwar Hamed and Basma Ghalayini, Daniel Lowe and all who took part. commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

Love this cover

Out now, from @commapress.bsky.social commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

For our first annual @allisfullofgore.bsky.social Halloween Movie I picked Halloween III. Tagline pitches based on reviews from group: "So many things happen, & yet not", "Why does everyone want to fuck that guy?", & "Worth it for that bonkers segments".

The first day outside the archive and I can't escape him

Next Thursday, I’m going to be reading a story from Nigel Kneale’s brilliant collection, Tomato Cain, recently reprinted by @commapress.bsky.social, at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social’s @northernfiction.bsky.social 2025 Winter Showcase! Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...

Tonight @britishlibrary.bsky.social Tickets still available! Here's editor Basma Ghalayini's irresistible introduction to the collection bookanista.com/alternative-...