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!!

Skrev om vem som görs förtjänt av rättigheter och var gemenskapens gränser går, via en bok om USA:s illiberala historia: www.svd.se/a/GydGM9/rec...

"Keep going Anas, you're our voice" - and now they've killed him. Almost 200 journalists murdered by Israel since the war on Gaza started.

New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:

I won’t be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter, cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace, the children nearby, poems and songs, a friend sleeping in my bed— and the short northern nights. RIP to a true north.

I'm facilitating one of these workshops in August and there are still a few spots left! Come think about puns and the music of prose with us: www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-summe...

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

1/4 A short 🧵 for daily(ish) #DSPBposts #PrideMonth #books: Antiquity by Hanna Johannson, trans. @kirajosefsson.bsky.social, @catapultbooks.bsky.social books.catapult.co/books/antiqu... & The Sapling Cage by @margaret.bsky.social, @feministpress.bsky.social www.feministpress.org/news/sapling...

Skrev om Trumps räder och när lagen är både omoralisk och orealistisk: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/B0P...

another solidarity drop-in coming up with the Translators Organizing Committee! Join us 🏃‍♂️

yes but for the love of g-d can people stop calling social democratic politics socialism... last time i checked zohran was not looking to abolish private property nor was bernie nymag.com/intelligence...

So many good prizes in NWU's fundraiser raffle for Palestinian journalists: bit.ly/PJSraffle

Judith Kiros on O: "it asks itself, can poetry find a way out of tragedy?" feat. two poems from my translation of the book. Thanks @markaz-review.bsky.social ! themarkaz.org/judith-kiros...

I love a long sentence and here are two beauties, one after the other, traversing the whole duration of a friendship, clear as a brook over pebbles From: Ia Genberg, The Details, beautifully translated by @kjokjokjo.bsky.social

Proud of everyone who boycotted ❤️‍🔥 Last year, I along with three other translators nominated for PEN awards used our withdrawal to fundraise 12k (4x the translation prize sum), which we donated to a young Gazan writer. Mass withdrawals ultimately led to Suzanne Nossel stepping down. +

On 16 May at Molasses Books (NY), I'm co-organising an event with beloved, where I'll be reading with poet-translator Miled Faiza, as well as Laura al-Tibi and Amr Amer, the duo behind "Against the Structural Weight of Catastrophe: A Poetics of Negation" Join us at 8 pm / free

Next week––join us!

Translated Athena Farrokhzad's "Ink is the Strongest Gunpowder" for @miznaarabart.bsky.social : mizna.org/mizna-online... This one is for everyone who keeps willfully confusing emotional discomfort with real harm.