Är på Aftonbladet några veckor i sommar och börjar med en text om kriminaliseringen av antifascistiskt motstånd i USA - som kanske har relevans även för ett svenskt klimat där man pratar om huruvida det är tillåtet att hata polisen: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/bOQ...

New Ia Genberg! Been waiting for this one for a while, translated by @kirajosefsson.bsky.social.

The thread includes multiple links to orgs that urgently need funds, everyone with a “Protect the Dolls” shirt better be sending money

We love seeing our members’ work out in the wild (and supporting independent bookstores)! @kirajosefsson.bsky.social P.S. If you’re a literary translator like Kira, did you know our new Literary Translators Division is organizing for better working conditions? 👀 nwu.org/toc

That’s three, can we get a NYT trend piece

A gift to read Sofija Popovska on BODY DOUBLE: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...

"What if you actually disappeared when you lost your sense of self? What if it were physically dangerous?" Elisa Shoenberger's interview with Hanna Johansson on "Body Double" (Translated by Kira Josefsson, @catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/08/b...

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@esthermavis.bsky.social ’s review of Hanna Johansson’s BODY DOUBLE, explores the novel’s depiction of female intimacy and the eeriness that emerges when our sense of self erodes. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

On Harshaneeyam chatting about Ia Genberg, money, and greed, as I am wont to do. The interview is part of Harshaneeyam's excellent International Booker series. www.harshaneeyam.com/Kira/ Thanks Anil and @harshaneeyam.bsky.social !

Jesus wept. I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence. Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi

Bryt alla diplomatiska, militära och ekonomiska förbindelser med skurkstaterna USA och Israel omedelbart. Sverige är i nuläget medskyldigt till varenda förbrytelse i Palestina, Libanon och Iran.

This is why using copyrighted work to training the models is not fair use, btw. They will just spit out straightforward plagiarism and I suspect it’s as difficult to prevent that, for the same reason it’s difficult to improve the error rate

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time

Ia and I talking about SMALL COMFORT and some other favorites: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Happy UK pub day to SMALL COMFORT! Swedish critics have called this Ia's best novel so far. I love all my children equally, but they're not wrong to say it's a special one. Out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ia-ge...

can't wait for this, "the details" by ia genberg is one of the best pieces of translated lit coming out of the nordics in recent years (high praise!)

it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal

I loved Ia Genberg's The Details so I'm happy to see Small Comfort, a collection of linked short stories from @headlinebooks.bsky.social, on the #InternationalBooker2026 list - but frustrated that I have to wait another month to read it :( Congratulations to translator @kirajosefsson.bsky.social

Feeling like the world's luckiest translator to be working with Ia again, and to be read so generously by the judges, who really get the book: "Breathtakingly original, profound but with a delicious dose of irreverence" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Out in UK in mid-March, US this summer!

“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...