📢 Calling all translators - we need your views and insights on our #TranslatorsOnTheCover campaign. Five years on from its launch, we’re working with Dr Pete Freeth (London Metropolitan University) to find out more about the campaign’s impact. buff.ly/uRuoZ1O

New book from our Member Bookshelf: The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep Sea Life By Stacy Alaimo University of Minnesota Press, 2025 www.asle.org/stay-informe...

#TuesdayTips Remembering Bram Stoker #OTD #WorldDraculaDay for his enduring legacy, for giving us the Victorian Gothic and for the lasting endurance of his castles, carriages, ruins, fog, mists, corpse-riddled coffins, gloom and darkness 👻 #FairytaleTuesday 🌷 silicasun.wordpress.com 🕸️ #silicasun 🦇📖❤️

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

"Queer and trans people of colour suffer from intersecting oppressive hegemonic systems, where racism, colourism, transphobia, and homophobia intertwine." - @dr-ourkiya.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2022/06/28/p... #queerecology #genderstudies #queerstudies #envhist

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social regularly post beautiful pictures of doors – usually rural, almost always weathered, hugely evocative. I was loved photographing doors – these are from all around the world (this once I am not going to provide all text for every one)

A raven worked out how to unhook the peanut feeder. Not lift it - unhook it. On attention, McGilchrist's two kinds of seeing, and why the raven doesn't have to choose between them. One watching the garden. One watching the sky. Between them, seeing everything. nature-speaks.co.uk/2026/05/25/t...

This is a good read of the Granta / Commonwealth mess and quite a teachable essay for undergrads, so bookmark for your Fall syllabuses africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...

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Zadie Smith somewhat unexpectedly analogies reading an AI-produced novel to having sex with a machine. No thanks, she says. “I want to be in relation with other humans. That is what I believe I am on this earth to experience.”

"I consider giving up my search, but what about the dog? The owner? Their chance to love and be loved snatched away. Just like that." Don't miss the new recording of "Rescue," Juliet McShannon's story from Issue 31 about a lost dog. Give it a listen using the link below!

This is an article that needed to be written and now needs to be read. 👇

This thing is now out in the world! @drmrb.bsky.social & I wrote a book; I'm going through cycles of "literary masterpiece" and "wait, this is not academic at all, it's a stack of bear puns in a duffle coat". If either of those appeals to you, it's out/pre-orderable depending on where you are.

Back with another @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, where I speak with my brilliant friend Sumana Roy about her book, Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal (OUP, 2024). Please check it out. newbooksnetwork.com/plant-thinke...

Repping @wasafirimag.bsky.social at our event at Bàrd Books tonight; and it’s a striking, striking reminder that London - the wider UK too - can and should provide a home and a springboard for all and every kind of global thinking, writing and making.

More excellent book post in these parts: Tommy Leonard-Roy’s Writerly Hate in Eighteenth Century Britain, just out from OUP….on good hating and fun hating and the creativity of animosity in the #18thc literary marketplace. I ❤️ this book!

@avecsesdoigts.bsky.social is one of the true, fearless translators from French – from her lollipop many translations of Matias Énard, through Proust, Céline and more. And although, Zone was one of the first titles published by Fitzcarraldo, credit must go to @chadwpost.bsky.social and Open Letter

This at @burleyfisher.bsky.social looks amazing! Translation event of our dreams. You can also read our conversation with Sophie Lewis on translating Cixous and Angst here: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...

Zhang Yueran on why Western readers are finally embracing Chinese stories reut.rs/4dgduUc

Jesus. This is so bad.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Middlemarch morning! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

A day of Middlemarch discourse, for a treat

I have quibbles with this list (isn’t that the fun?) but this is a 10/10 top choice for the number one slot.

ICYMI: This essay by @palmblad.bsky.social is the first in a series co-published by @whitehorsepress.bsky.social & ICEHO in which emerging environmental history scholars respond to essays by foundational environmental historians... #envhist Read the full essay: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/24/i...

I just found out about this OA book, "Women, 'Failure' and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University", edited by Marina Cano and Rosa García-Periago. Need I say more? I downloaded it immediately. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

"The teddy bear became a symbol: we had feared the bears, we had tried to eradicate the bears, and now we wanted to give the bears a hug. The Billy Possum demonstrates how our stories about animals can turn them into powerful symbols, or not.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

today in Persuasion thoughts: Charles Musgrove is really a petulant man-baby and it's a very good thing Anne escaped being his wife 🛁

The slightly scandalised expression on Woolf's face does also remind me of that quote from her about suddenly realising Eliot wore a lot of makeup

Me marking: this discussion is unrelated to the main claim Me writing: and speaking of Mrs Dalloway, here are 9 pages on the prehistory of powered flight

Miss Translation returns! Bela Shayevich on measuring “mistranslation,” assonance that won’t quit, two upcoming live events, and—of course—a new puzzle. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Read my new translation of 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 by 𝐓𝗼𝐦𝗮𝐬 𝐓𝗿𝐚𝗻𝐬𝘁𝐫𝗼̈𝐦𝗲𝐫, from his first book 17 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠. hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/epilogue #poetry #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

“we / became fossils in a few ticks of the clock.” Elyas Alavi’s poem “Without Bounty” lays bare the impact of warfare on one’s ability to properly mourn the dead. Translated from Persian by Sholeh Wolpé. Read the poem here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

Ch3. Matthew Killmeier & Leslie McMurtry examine exemplar spectres from audio ghost dramas (1930s-2010s) that are present yet disembodied apparitions that express malevolent qualities of the acousmêtre, and spirits that upend linear temporality through dyschronic stories. #NewDirections👻

“‘You ever get tired of being someone else?’ Bezos asked. The Dude shrugged, distracted by a man wearing a shirt that read SOMEBODY arm-in-arm with a woman in a shirt that read SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

Everyone here will need to find their own dinner. Something more pressing just slipped through the mail slot. Beyond excited to read both of these.

"Those Images," written by W.B. Yeats and first published in the collection "New Poems" in 1938. Want to support the mission of the International Yeats Society? Consider becoming a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org/members/ #Poetry #Yeats #IrishLiterature #SupportTheArts

Why Bowen Matters www.eventbrite.ie/e/why-bowen-...

Haha there was Diamond Comics James Bond too

wife: I need you to not get obsessed with this sprinkler project like you do with things me: rot why would I get obsessed do you think watering the plants is a passion for me lol *3 days later* wife: what are you doing me: researching the history of irrigation WHAT I CAN'T HAVE HOBBIES NOW HUH

In case you are looking for a delightful summer read, I have one (among many!) reviewed for you: scroll.in/article/1092...

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!

We need another concept of animals—they are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear” (Henry Beston). More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

"Once revived, Palana marked the pup with healing stripes made from his blood and spiritual power mixed with campfire ash. It is believed that this transformed the pup into corinna, an Indigenous word for the thylacine... " - Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya niche-canada.org/2023/07/20/c... #envhist

The speaker in Kujira Sakisaka’s poem “A Little Blue Tail” (translated from Japanese by Akagi Kobayashi) considers a lizard and the unseen violence that underlies the seemingly simple act of gardening. Read the poem here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Today in the Botanical Imaginations series, mixed media artist Alex Côté Hallé combines performance, land art, and ecological research to transform polluted landscapes into sites of care and imagination, producing sculptures, videos, and installations with human and nonhuman collaborators. 🗑️ 🎨

A pivotal moment in Canadian history in which feminism, environmental protest and the Cold War crossed paths. Well worth a read: