Drawing on narrative interviews, participatory arts-based methods and analyses of official data, laws and judicial documents, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Shalini Nair’s project @glasgow.ac.uk aims to decolonise justice and make it more survivor-centric. 👉️ www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

One where I consider the overlap between Italo Calvino’s Il barone rampante and Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard—exploring themes such as capitalism, colonialism, and what eco-consciousness might look like in our contemporary times: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/07...

 ‘He teases her and says she loves the accounts. And she really does. The way the numbers make sense and can make everything resolve.’  Fiction by Ditte Holm Bro, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg. granta.com/every-time-y...

Good piece on one of the thorniest books I've read this year strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I wasn't on socials when the lovely folks @manchesterreview.bsky.social published this back in 2021! I have no idea who read it. See what you lot think? 😊💕 www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12029

Irish translator and scholar @ellenfcorbett.bsky.social explores how some Irish writers have resisted or deferred the translation of their work into English — given the minoritisation of the Irish language and its 'definitely endangered' status. Read the full essay here:

I’ve just finished this book and it was beyond brilliant, I loved being suffused in it.

from film india, a review of gunga din which in 1999, was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

This afternoon, I read an essay by Liadan Ní Chuinn (Tolka) that referred to this one in Harper's. Really liked both. harpers.org/archive/2025...

New translation alert ✍🏻(this one benefitted immensely from an early reading by @theriveter.bsky.social) 🌻 student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/MT/article/2...

Oh ! J'étais passée à côté de cette sortie (Illustrations de @channeldraw.bsky.social)

"In spite of the scientific uncertainty about why the orcas are ramming boats, the memes gleefully celebrate the orca behaviour and position the orcas as anti-capitalist eco-warriors." - @sabinelebel.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c... #envhist #envhum #animalstudies #orcas #memes

A pillowcase of Fernando Pessoa’s library.

Instructive story about holding personal subjects at a slight distance in poems. Thomas Hardy wrote this after his cat’s death. Florence, his young love, objected to the line calling the cat the “only friend.” H. assured her that the man was not him, just one in his situation.

"Whatever their size or appearance, the farm dog’s chief role was to help herd the cows from the pasture to the stable at milking time." - Jack Little niche-canada.org/2024/07/12/r... #envhist #cdnhist #dogs #aghist #animalhistory

Love me some Wissenschaften inspo

Join Janani Ambikapathy, Bella Bosworth, Madeleine Rogers and Sonakshi Srivastava for a conversation about being an editor and a translator 💫 📅 Wednesday 22 July ⏲️ 11.30am — 12.30pm (BST) 📍 Online Find out more about our panelists and register: www.bclt.org.uk/events/trans...

Me Too did not go far enough.

clear distillation of a damning colonial angle to the current cross-genre zeal for purple nonsense metaphors lauded as "poetic" (in re: Granta & AI): "The real question... is why a particular form of trained, statistical incoherence was so readily legible to its judges as postcolonial seriousness."

Read my new translation of 𝑆𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, from his book 𝐻𝑒𝑚𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎̊ 𝑣𝑎̈𝑔𝑒𝑛 (𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑦). hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/siesta #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

"The narrator reflects on her position as a foreigner both at home (“here”) and abroad (“there”), articulating a sense of liminality––the emblematic “in-between-ness” of those who permanently navigate between cultures and languages, inhabiting at once both and none.”

“… my back was hinting at a future without your breath tickling my neck …” from “Last Carry,” Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social

"The lives Rahul Bhattacharya’s ‘Railsong’ holds aloft most convincingly are those of its bustling women, whether they work in the home or in the office or both. There is Charu, of course, with her earnestness, her fretting, her resolve." Read Vikram Shah's piece here: https://ow.ly/8nVM50Zk9LU

Re: Tony Rayns, in the 1970s he was co-editor with Simon Hartog of a short-lived film mag, Cinema Rising. The first issue (April 1972) included a brief interview with Donald Cammell and a photo feature about Lucifer Rising. I posted the Cammell piece here: www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...

For those not happye wyth the whimsye of romantasye ther ys the much more serious genre of romantrealism.

📚🌱 In “Between Colonial Archive and Alien Mind: Fungal Ontologies in Mexican Gothic and What Moves the Dead,” Xiao Zhang and Shuya Zhang draws attention to the critical affordances of fungal fiction in narrating ecological crises, trans-corporeal horror and cross-species intimacy. Read the article👇:

The eighth-century dictionary ‘Simplex and Compound Graphs from the Five Classics“ 五經文字 defines “cat” as “a ferocious beast.” 「貓，猛獸」

Major yn Englisshe: • Focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge • Research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even inventid yet • Meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir • It ys awesome • Bookes!

A thing! (Co-written with Ahoo Najafian!)

Join us in celebrating 100 years of Elizabeth Jennings!🌸 The event will be hosted by Rebecca Watts and Michael Schmidt on Tuesday 14 July, 7pm. Get free tickets and £2 off New and Selected Poems here:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/100-y...

Please see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Never mind 1776, here's the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

what about the typewriter, eh

‘When Fosse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, he was often described in the press as a writer of a “minority language”, but just what that meant was often obscure to anyone outside of Norway.’ Damion Searls on translating Fosse and Nynorsk, a Norwegian language. granta.com/the-other-no...

doing some serious (and fun) thing on the 22nd! Join us for this! Thank you @bcltuea.bsky.social 🌻

I don’t know who needs to read a 77 year-old, super-adorable tiny book from 1949 about an anthropomorphic pig family celebrating Halloween, but if you do, here you go…

Excited to see our very own "Translating Disability" collection on here! Check it out to find works touching on disability, translated from French, Korean, and Russian (plus original writing in English). wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

'Woman Descending a Staircase.' Carl Holsøe studied with Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen and with Peter Ilsted formed the Danish School of Interior Painting. Holsøe's works are generally less austere than those of his contemporaries and have more glow.

Happy Pub Day (yesterday) to us! We finally launched Issue 1: The Exophonic Translator. Thrilled and deeply grateful to the contributors for their trust and patience. Do give it a read! thethirdwheel.org

two chums taking stock of the situation… art by the late Molly Brett

Very pleased to announce the addition of the 592 surviving letters in Thomas Gray’s correspondence to the #ThomasGrayArchive integrated finding aid to Thomas Gray manuscripts: www.thomasgray.org/resources/fi... #c18th #correspondence #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #DigitalHumanities #18thCentury

The ‘dog days’ of summer get their name due to their association with the Dog Star, Sirius, found in the constellation Canis Major. The first visible rising of Sirius occurs during the hot stretch from early July to early September. Woof.

Hi everyone. The introduction to my book Arresting Ecologies is available here without a paywall until July 22. Book is out now in UK, ships in the US this month. Hope you check it: academic.oup.com/book/62701/c...

This is SUCH a cool idea! (I would also like a trumpeting rabbit plushie)

The month of July Juillet, Palais Comtal de Poitiers Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Illuminated Manuscript on vellum, 1412-1416 Musée Condé ⁦, Château de Chantilly

(Article) Madam Jia’s Awkward Encounter With A Boar thehistorianshut.com/2020/10/15/m... #history