Just started reading but can already highly recommend The Renovation. It’s a tense, absurdity-tinged book about displacement, language, and yearning for a place that no longer quite exists. It’s also about a woman who contracts a new bathroom but receives instead a Turkish prison cell #booksky

Great to see Marie NDiaye on the Booker long list. Anybody else have a favorite on here? #booksky thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Happy pub day to @legroff.bsky.social, a Who Even Reads favorite. BRAWLER was on our list of February Books We Like the Looks Of and it does not disappoint. We have more coverage of this book forthcoming. #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

The recording of our event last week on pitching and writing op-eds about Long COVID is now available on YouTube and on our website! @thesicktimes.org youtu.be/9qS6yFwP0OY?...

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

ICYMI: Check out my piece on witnessing as a political act, the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, and Sarah Bruni’s novel Mass Mothering #abolishICE #ICEout #booksky @whoevenreads.bsky.social www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

it’s very difficult for me to reread old pieces of mine, but I am sharing this for the Olympics, for nostalgia, for Asian American women of a certain age, for little Asian girls everywhere gift link:

But seriously, check out @cookschicken.bsky.social’s fantastic review of Persona by Aoife Josie Clements if you like books about unstable, terminally online women. And subscribe to Who Even Reads for more like this. There will be more like this #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-aoife...

Our review of Aoife Josie Clements' Persona (@littlepuss.net), which includes mentions of Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, Fariha Róisín’s Who Is Wellness For, and Joyce Carol Oates' infamous keyboard (you'll just have to read it to find out why!) #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-aoife...

Happy birthday to Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde who deserve all of the flowers. Always 💐💐💐💐

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

How Minnesota booksellers have resisted and responded to ICE (community support, donations, closure). Sobering stories about to what degree communities have been affected, but they also highlight the ongoing social and community relevance of indie bookstores www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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A nerd but for literary fiction

About #LongCovid in #fiction — gets a bit at the unmarjetabiluty a few of us were discussing re: long covid in publishing writ large

ICYMI: Read my feature about #longcovid in fiction from a #covidconscious perspective! Looking at books by Patricia Lockwood, Kate Weinber, and Robin Ryle. If you like it, please subscribe! #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/canary-in-th...

My first five reads of the year, all of which I dug: -Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata -Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin -Cosmic Dyke Patrol by Lor Gislason -Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille -Persona by Aoife Josie Clements What are your first reads of the year?

This is incredible

"I was reading an advance copy of Sarah Bruni’s second novel Mass Mothering on January 7 when ICE agents occupying Minneapolis murdered a mother of three, Renée Good, while she and her wife were observing and recording their actions in the community..." #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

We were just talking about this! Yes yes yes yes yes!!!!

Read @runtalien.bsky.social's beautiful feature about Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social), Renée Good's poetry & resistance + witnessing in Minneapolis these past weeks (and ongoing), by @statuscoupnews.bsky.social, among others #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

"The stories of the activist group Mothers United in [Sarah Bruni's] Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where people are looking, watching, witnessing." #booksky

Read @runtalien.bsky.social's beautiful feature about Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social), Renée Good's poetry & resistance + witnessing in Minneapolis these past weeks (and ongoing), by @statuscoupnews.bsky.social, among others #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

If you like feminist alt history, check out my review of The Age of Calamities by Senaa Ahmad! #booksky

In the year of our Lord Superbowl-halftime-show-in-Spanish-twenty-six (and long before), no book review should be criticizing an American-published title on the basis of it including languages other than English, or assuming its intended audience only speaks English

In our latest piece, @runtalien.bsky.social reviews Senaa Ahmad's debut short story collection The Age of Calamities, featuring Anne Boleyn, Lizzie Borden, and other figures you might not expect to see in a work of contemporary fiction 👸🐎🏰 #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-lizzi...

Petra and Vanessa are back today with a guide to last night's show in @rollingstone.com! Read this, then grab their book from @dukepress.bsky.social! "But Bad Bunny always finds a way to get many complex messages in his performances, just as he does with his songs."

Will always hate the Patriots.

Seeing from Sameer Project that tents are breaking down. We are so angry that this is the ask since people should not have to continue to be displaced… but please pitch in so that they can replace tents that have torn and disintegrated after 2+ years. chuffed.org/project/1132...

wow

Check out @cookschicken.bsky.social's review of HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER, it's the best thing I've read this week #booksky

Here it is! Review of @ninamcconigley.bsky.social's fantastic How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder with personal essayistic touches from @cookschicken.bsky.social Enjoy! #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-nina-...

Reading a post from @whoevenreads.bsky.social about Quan Barry's recent The Unveiling convinced me I'm ready for a deep dive on Barry's works because I've missed a lot since They Ride Upon Sticks. Excited about the opportunity this nudged me toward.

Coming soon: Our review of Nina McConigley's accomplished novel How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder from @pantheonbooks.bsky.social #booksky (Including some reflections on being biracial in 1980s America, Halley's Comet, and more) Subscribe for all our latest things, etc: whoevenreads.com

We have upcoming coverage planned for Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social), out now!

Joyce Carol Oates put something on the Other Site about how it's more DH Lawrence's "scrimmage of life" over there and Bluesky is too "good" for her and the thing is, no judgment towards anyone who's still there but it seems like we're past the point of that level of whimsical romanticization of it

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Our first monthly book list is out! These are our anticipated titles with February release dates, including work by @kenanorhan.bsky.social, @legroff.bsky.social & @kimsamek.bsky.social, among others #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

ICYMI: Check out the piece I wrote about some recent books engaging with #longcovid from a #covidconscious perspective. We will be running more content like this, so if you like it, please subscribe!

As we're having these conversations, let's take this a step further and put Indigenous sovereignty, reparations for slavery, and the dismantling of white supremacist systems, including the federal government as we know it, at the center of whatever happens next 💪😎

At the end of this, I want to see a federal government made up of socialist nurses, elementary school teachers, mothers, and librarians. Get rid of every single Republican, every Democrat who sat on their thumbs and let this happen. The US better be to the left of Sweden when this is all over.

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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

Please read my review of Brian Washington's Palaver, which contains salacious details about my personal life. @whoevenreads.bsky.social #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-readi...

Thank you so much to everyone who has read, shared, and supported this article! We honestly had hoped it would get some traction but didn't expect to be getting donations this early. We're very excited to keep doing what we're doing with you all! ❤️

Our next review! Lisa covers Bryan Washington's NBA finalist Palaver (@fsgbooks.bsky.social): "...in the fishbowl of your own queer life...you might not recognize that the people who have always surrounded you do not treat you with a great deal of care" #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-readi...

In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social writes beautifully (as always) about the way Heated Rivalry has become a fragment shored against the ruin of almost everyone's mental health, and the artistic and narrative joys of both its universality and its specificity. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...

Our first feature article, about the presence (and absence) of Long Covid in fiction, explores Will There Ever Be Another You by @tricialockwood.bsky.social (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social), writing by @madelinemiller.bsky.social & more www.whoevenreads.com/canary-in-th... Thanks for reading! #booksky