this makes me think about Ezra Klein's interview with Suzanne Mettler, who said again and again that Dems need to actually organize, be present in local communities across the country, and EK barely asked any follow-ups, just kept going back to "but, messaging"

“I didn’t read THE DETAILS because I was h*rny—I read it because I was teaching.” New: the first entry in Miss Translation, a regular column by Bela Shayevich. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Journalistikens roll när någon säger att det regnar är inte att rapportera det som en sanning, utan att titta ut genom fönstret för att se om det verkligen regnar. Även utrikesjournalistiken måste leva upp till den standarden.

"det som började som en kritik av moralism har gradvis förskjutits till en kritik av moral – och idag till en kritik av affekt som sådan. Det är inte längre bara godhet som misstänkliggörs, utan själva möjligheten att tala etiskt." www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/8p6...

Skrev om Renee Nicole Good och ett land där döden är billig och allestädes närvarande: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/7pK...

Skrev om Renee Nicole Good och ett land där döden är billig och allestädes närvarande: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/7pK...

🎉HYPER by Agri Ismaïl is out today!🎉 👉👉A hypermodern family saga: Dubai luxury malls, algorithms, corded radios, and desperate efforts to locate meaning and identify within the numb isolation of modern immigrant life. A stunning debut by @agri.bsky.social 👈👈

skrev om ostadig mark under fötterna: amerikansk paranoia, misstänksamhetens användbarhet, och tillit www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/q6L...

skrev om ostadig mark under fötterna: amerikansk paranoia, misstänksamhetens användbarhet, och tillit www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/q6L...

Protest sign on Route 4 in Paramus, New Jersey reads “ICE murders woman in MN”

I'm really proud to have helped organize this in the first year alongside a bunch of translator friends and other comrades who were likewise nominated for prizes. Collective action works! lithub.com/the-boycott-...

BODY DOUBLE is on LitHub's most anticipated list! "Okay Persona… okay Ingmar Bergman… okay Scandinavian literature about lesbians who start turning into each other…. a strange, twisty story about obsession and identity and how easy it can be to lose yourself completely" lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

THIS THIS THIS all of this especially this:

Hanna Johansson's Body Double is one of New York Mag's most anticipated books of 2026! "the queer doppelgänger story I’ve been dying to read": www.vulture.com/article/2026...

zohran quoting and then rejecting "the era of big government is over," the line that captured the zenith of clintonian neoliberalism, is highly symbolic

"not simply about the costs we make free, but the lives we fill with freedom" this is ittttttt there is no freedom without equality and the right should not have a monopoly on that word

i <3 new york

One of my favorites from O. Thanks to Poetry Daily! The whole book is here: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/o

super intrigued by this poem @poetrydaily.bsky.social @circumferencemag.bsky.social @kirajosefsson.bsky.social 💜

finally made the switch from spotify to qobuz and feeling great about not giving daniel ek my money anymore, but also importantly the sound quality is SO much better!! can't believe i spent all these years listening to tinny bass lines when i could've had actual depth of sound.

literally why would you ever buy a book from Amazon

ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...

So nice to see Body Double highlighted here. As Kendall, our publisher, says: “Body Double is a thriller, but the mystery at its center is existential.”: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I'm excited for CD Eskilson's translation of Edith Södergran's Modern Woman. Södergran, a Finland-Swedish poet who died in 1923 at 31, is is one of our most impt poets & CD's translation renders her w a glittering specificity that also brings out her queerness: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/modern...

This conversation is so clear and bracing––I can't recommend it enough. Major congrats to Omar El Akkad and gratitude to David Naimon for bringing us this interview!

Toni Morrison: "A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs." (more tranquil than the curve of eggs !!!)

Congratulations to Ia Genberg and our contributor Kira Josefsson. You can read more of Josefsson's work on our website here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

‼️Attention, Genberg heads ‼️ Ia's brilliant novel Small Comfort coming to the UK in April 2026 and a few months later in the US.

zohran pronouncing his wife's name with a rolling r, zohran releasing campaign videos in spanish and arabic... a linguistically competent mayor for this many-tongued city!

So nice to see this long review of Quynh Tran's brilliant Shade and Breeze, which was published in my translation last year from Lolli Editions and is still waiting for a US publisher. Thank you @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social ! diacritics.org/2025/10/book...

So nice to see this long review of Quynh Tran's brilliant Shade and Breeze, which was published in my translation last year from Lolli Editions and is still waiting for a US publisher. Thank you @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social ! diacritics.org/2025/10/book...

"Cuomos kampanj är fastklamrad vid övertygelsen att fascism bara kan tämjas genom kompromisser. Vinner Mamdani har han också besegrat denna eftergifternas politik." Tänk er en framtid som ser ut så! Bra av @martingelin.bsky.social www.dn.se/kultur/marti...

Honored to be one of the literary hosts for this year's WWB gala. Come join us to celebrate + support this beloved magazine! I am told there will be dancing 🪩 wwborders.live/2025Gala

När federala agenter stormar bostadshus och människor försvinner i nattliga räder växer samtidigt ilskan i USA. Rörelsen No kings samlar miljontals i protest mot deportationerna, i en kamp om landets själ, rapporterar Kira Josefsson. www.flamman.se/inga-kungar-...

Skrev om massprotest och direkt aktion i @flamman.se : www.flamman.se/inga-kungar-...

Speaking of... This is such a clear-sighted, freeing take on the issue: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

I finally got around to reading this v helpful guide to the Anthropic lawsuit. Highly recommended if you think you might be among the countless whose work was stolen by the company to "train" its LLM chatbot Claude. Translators very much included! nwu.org/anthropic/

THE MARATHON POET (@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list! Åke Hodell’s poems, translated from the Swedish by Fia Backström, “unmask and satirize oppression’s many guises.” Order it here: uglyducklingpresse.org/product/the-...

💛 L2 translators continue to remind the world that the concept of a mother tongue is, in fact, not so straightforward in large parts of the world, and that many of us translate into a language that is not our first!

”Hela Bologna står stilla på ett sätt vi inte sett på 40 år”.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

once again, respectfully tapping the "support local, worker-owned, billionaire-free independent media" sign

I can't wait for you to read Hanna's brilliant lesbian thriller--taut and autumnal where her ANTIQUITY is lush and summery, richly intertextual, about desire and belonging and also sort of obliquely about translation... BODY DOUBLE is out in April!

🎉 The 2025 longlist for the @nationalbook.bsky.social Award for Translated Literature has arrived! Congratulations to all on this stellar list - including ALTA members Shelley Fairweather-Vega, David McKay, Paige Aniyah Morris, and Robin Myers! www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

PEN America: "we've listened to our community, we're learning and changing" Also PEN America: come to the event we're hosting at the 92Y, the zionist venue that cancelled Viet Thanh Nguyen's appearance after he criticized israel! we love free speech

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

You can search here to see if your book was copied: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... And translators, make sure to search for your authors and not just your own name--your name might not bring up all your books.

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators. If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]

See you in Tucson!!