We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. These three books bring the Holocaust into focus in various ways. We are grateful to the authors for their work. Canada.ca site: https://bit.ly/4h7Vpqy @aaronkreuter.bsky.social

But I think people who hold this double standard should feel ashamed 🥲 I also think shame is self-indulgent if it isn’t part of your process of becoming someone better

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

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it is not better today. it is worse. friends in federal detention for observing. friends maced and attacked. friends in car chases with ICE. please keep your eyes open and keep listening and taking whatever action you can.

We lost everything. We’re rebuilding from zero. Your support, even a share is hope in motion.

this is irresponsible reporting. a neural network can't comment on why it produced CSAM. a neural network can't be held answerable for generating CSAM. accountability lies within the fascist ceo and the team willing to work for him www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

Bari Weiss is best understood as an anti-speech activist on behalf of power. This is through line from her start trying to get professors fired for critiquing Israel to running interference for Elon Musk to now working as regime censor for Trump at CBS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Nothing fills me with more optimism than the major journal of publishing signing up for the "steal from authors in order to put all the book people out of work" industry.

How fucking DARE these mfers instrumentalize the shooting to justify ongoing genocide. This is why every event of antisemitic violence is so knotted for a lot of us. I want to mourn but I have no time to do so b/c I immediately have to fight the Zionist weaponozation of Jewish grief. It's maddening.

It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

More than six weeks after the Gaza ceasefire came into force, journalists are still prevented by the Israeli military from entering the Gaza Strip.

Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began. Why has this disappeared from the headlines? The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN by Aaron Kreuter explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Now available in audio as well as print and e-editions! https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF @aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Toronto friends, join editors Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik, along with contributors Lily Cho, Robert Zacharias, and Sophie Feng, for the launch of SHELTER IN TEXT on Nov 12. Food! Drinks! Books for purchase! Centre for Creativity, U of T, 5 - 7 pm ET. Info: https://bit.ly/48JlXNT ##TorontoLitUp

RUBBLE CHILDREN stories are emotionally poignant tales of childhood political discovery, teenage sexual awakening, the dissolution of adult romantic relationships, and discussions about Zionism. Now in audio! https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF @aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #JewishIdentity

1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.

We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.

If Gene Roddenberry was still alive and running Star Trek, I guarantee we'd be getting thinly veiled allegories about anti-vaccine bullshit or xenophobia. It would not be subtle. It would hit reasonably hard. People would complain endlessly that Star Trek had gotten too progressive.

Air Canada strike: “We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said. “If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”

The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture and the Vancouver Public Library are collaborating to put on this book talk with @aaronkreuter.bsky.social on Sept 13th at the Central Library. shall have to look for a copy before then😁

Upcoming events for Lake Burntshore!

Next week, Sandra Fox will discuss how summer camps met—or failed to meet—the postwar fears and hopes of American Jews, and @aaronkreuter.bsky.social will explore their potential as transformative sites for reckoning with settler colonialism both at home and in Israel/Palestine. Join us! 👇

New review of Lake Burntshore up now at Kirkus Reviews! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

New substack: open.substack.com/pub/aaronkre...

A funny & emotionally resonant coming-of-age novel about one summer of momentous social & political change at a Jewish sleepover camp, 'Lake Burntshore' by @aaronkreuter.bsky.social is our Featured #CanLit in-store! 💕🇨🇦📚 tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚 #IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall @ecwpress.bsky.social

The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children.

This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.

I really can't stomach embracing AI whatsoever when it's going to decimate livelihoods and the existence of art itself, sorry. Article includes a voice actor, predictably.

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

Oh look it’s some of the book covers I’ve designed recently for some truly great Canadian authors