So Emilia Perez is bad bad...I have watched 45 minutes and just wow. I don't have time to watch much so may just bail. I can't imagine anyone portrayed liking what is on screen and the music is really outrageously horrible

Meredith Warren on the new movie about Mary.

during a canada post strike is when you really see the consequences of having virtually no labour journalists at major publications in canada, but a load of business journalists ready to parrot the corporate line

The devastation and harm that Ford's government is wreaking on our province - and the city of Toronto - is astounding. They KNOW these decisions will cost cyclists' lives which is why they're scrambling to preempt accountability. Proud of my MPP Jessica Bell for fighting the good fight.

I don't know if Bluesky will ever reach peak twitter but I go onto X and within minutes feel like shit...that hellscape is done

Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!

Anyone for a #Giveaway? For a chance to win a copy of Intermezzo just follow me, like, and re-post! Feel free to tag some friends too! Giveaway closes Friday 29th November 6pm, UK only. 💙📚

I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

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Lessons from Trump’s win that could help us stop Poilievre springmag.ca/lessons-from...

Phoebe wins nincompoop of the day. She made it to the Beaverton 🤣

I’m proud to never have read a damn thing by Cormac McCarthy. I’ve got my own pretty horses.

My “Palestine in Modern Arabic Poetry” class ends with a unit on Arab-American poetry. Today our session was centered @lenakt.bsky.social’s @nationalbook.bsky.social acceptance speech. It was history. It was resistance. It was integrity. It was courage. It was poetry.

Poetry in a Time of Genocide, a two-episode special of the IMEU's This Is Palestine podcast. Host Diana Buttu speaks with National Book Award finalists Fady Joudah and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social) on genocide and defying cultural erasure pod.link/1509337661/e...

The 49 times the US used veto power against UN resolutions on Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/49-times-us-has-used-veto-power-against-un-resolutions-israel

Francesca Albanese: ICC should seek more arrest warrants for Israeli leaders - https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/un-francesca-albanese-icc-more-arrest-warrants-israel-leaders

Are we getting the @nytimes 100 notable books of 2024 today?

Very happy to see Percival Everett, one of our living greats, win the National Book Award!

IT'S PERCIVAL EVERETT! Percival Everett, author of JAMES, is the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction! "Hope is really no substitute for strategy." bookshop.org/a/169/978038...

Percival Everett’s James wins the National Book Award for Fiction!

WOW! The winner of the National Book Award in Poetry is WWB contributor Lena Khalaf Tuffaha! @lenakt.bsky.social!!! wordswithoutborders.org/contributors... Lena is the guest editor of our issue "Against Silence: A Palestinian Writing Series": wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2

First Alice Munro and now Cormac McCarthy. Literary heroes who covered up sexual crimes or engaged in grotesque predatory behavior.

1. I reiterate that I don't think bots/trolls get how comprehensive the "block" function here is. 2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here. 3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.

Israel’s Apartheid Wall stretches across Palestinian land, separating families, cutting off communities, and turning daily life into a struggle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3is...

There are few things these days as important as standing up for and with your trans friends and neighbours as they show extreme strength in the face of increasingly absurd far-right attacks on their right to exist and thrive. The fight continues #TransDayofRemembrance

Poilievre denies he’d be a Canadian Trump: “I’ll be more like a Canadian JD Vance”

To Save The Man by John Sayles publishes Jan 23rd and I'm looking forward to reviewing it for the blog tour with @melvillehouse.bsky.social 'Sheds light on an American tragedy: The Wounded Knee Massacre....' This sounds truly fascinating, a book I expect will have a huge impact on every reader.

My response to Ian Williams comments on Commotion accusing protestors of bullying

man I see a lot of people trying to diagnose "why bluesky" and I can't speak for anyone else but I just want a place to talk shit with friends that isn't overrun by maga choads or brands, it's not fuckin rocket science

Sooooo, did y'all see the statement the winner of the Giller made? I know the Giller sent an email to publishers last year saying that they should only submit books from authors willing to show up at all booked events, but did they say those authors couldn't say "Palestine," too?

Ok well, this killed me.

Ann Michaels is a writer of stature who didn't need to be part of the Giller charade that refused to take meaningful action against genocide. Her speech may sound powerful but her calls for solidarity with writers who bare witness are empty and meaningless.

#NEW: CanLit Responds has formed a picket line outside of the Giller Prize Gala at the Park Hyatt hotel in Toronto. There will also be a "Boycott Giller" counter-gala

How does this make students, particularly Arab and Palestinian students, feel safe? The insiuation here is that Arabic isn't a "Canadian value" whatever that means. We need to see more political and community leaders start calling out MacLeod's vitriloic actions.

Canada is out of excuses. Europe slashes climate pollution while we flounder. Great analysis as always from @nationalobserver.bsky.social's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/18/a...

Arts organizers have been putting pressure on Canada’s cultural institutions to divest from Israel’s war machine—and it's working. Nour Abi-Nakhoul writes on how last year's Giller Prize protests kicked off a year of organizing for a new Canadian literary sector. breachmedia.ca/giller-prote...

Amsterdam's mayor was one of those who described events there as a 'pogrom'. She has now publicly renounced what she said, and offered regret for erasing Maccabi violence - and how the narrative whipped up anti-Muslim and anti-Arab violence. The story continues to fall apart youtu.be/4H_ozYgHpoM

Ed Yong you legend

after Bergen's powerful stance, I finally picked up the novel that won him the prize. A powerful work on the horrific consequences of war. Why I won’t be attending the Giller Prize gala this year www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

So much respect for Thien. Not only did she write one of the most important and powerful Canadian novels of the last twenty years, she has been steadfast opposing the genocide in Gaza and prior to this war speaking out against the occupation.

The Giller Prize happens tonight, in the shadow of an incredibly effective movement against its association with Scotiabank and the genocide in Gaza. Please find our recent episode of the @hamrevofbooks.bsky.social podcast talking about what happened and why we should boycott the Giller.

Tell Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger that you support CUPW in negotiations, that the post office cannot cut its way to growth, and that it must agree to solutions that benefit everyone – including workers: www.CUPW.ca/en/campaign/... #CUPW #canlab #1u #SupportCUPW #cdnpoli #CanadaPostStrike #Strike

If you’re having a debate inside the Democratic Party about the role of pressure groups & special interests in determining your agenda, & making you take unpopular positions that cost you swing states, & you’re not mentioning AIPAC then you’re not actually having a real debate.

I’ll pay cold hard cash to see this right now

People of Bluesky. Let's get to know each other better. What is your favourite movie? Quote share your answer only in gif form. #filmsky