What a shock that all the journalists who for two years smugly said they wouldn’t call it a genocide unless the UN does, are still not calling it a genocide after the UN did

Anti Fascists are now designated terrorists in the United States. Anti genocide protestors are now designated terrorists in the UK. All the decent people are going to end up in jail. How the fuck did we end up here?

My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers. Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza. Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Our colleague Alex Andriesse is on the shortlist of the Italian Prose in Translation for his work on Cristina Campo's The Unforgivable and Other Writings. Yay for Alex! And the other translators, original writers, books, and publishers. Thanks to @littranslate.bsky.social and the judges.

Cartoon by @knecessary.bsky.social.

We are absolutely thrilled to share the news that SAD TIGER by Neige Sinno, translated by Natasha Lehrer, was included in this year's longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature! www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Entre el genocidio, los bombardeos a lanchas y botes civiles, la trata de personas para satisfacer a presidentes y billonarios, el secuestro de migrantes en las calles, y la frivolidad con que la prensa hegemónica habla de todo esto, tienen la esperanza de que nos quedemos aturdidos por el ruido.

I am not seeing this news spread on Bluesky yet, so just wanted to share. Truly fantastic that this is happening.

Excellent news. The law firm representing authors in the Anthropic/AI-theft class-action suit now has a website that is accepting non-US authors' contact info (as long as their books had a US publisher): www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Please do circulate!

I look forward to Sam Altman boohooing about how his business model can’t survive without copyright theft

Crisis? Last Conservative government, as I recall, had at least three separate prime ministers step down ignominiously (to say nothing of the raft of cabinet ministers). Rayner’s resignation isn’t great for the party but an honourable decision), but by Tory standards it is not a crisis

Margaret Atwood is a national treasure

A poem about a Negroni from my forthcoming collection #LivesoftheFemalePoets ♥️♥️♥️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Mary Robinson wants EU to suspend trade deal with Israel

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If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Thank you Alex! And happy birthday, dear friend 💜🎂

Many points of pride are outlined in this jubilational piece, but who we book and how quickly we pay them are absolute CORNERSTONES to us - "what, like it's HARD!?" - and am very glad to have gotten to say it.

The second episode is out, and it's 'Alex' by Pierre Lemaitre and translated by @terribleman.com. This book was a revisit for me, which I rarely do with crime novels. However, I think it's something I should do more often as it felt like a different book, in a good way! #podcasts #books

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For #WomenInTranslationMonth, we spoke to Deepa Bhasthi, translator and winner of this year’s International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq. She discusses her translation process and what it’s like being a writer in multilingual societies like India. pen.org/deepa-bhasth...

I can't wait to use this in my History of Argentina Class. It is going to be so much fun!

Mafalda getting an English translation just as we're sliding into a dictatorship is both excellent & terrible timing.

as of the 2010 census, mississippi has the largest number of queer families raising children.

There are still good, kind, decent people in the world You just need to know where to look www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...

Throwing shade: apparently, the “poetry and its nuance, its passion and philosophical depth, its grasp of moral ambiguity, its clever interweaving of history and fiction, and its superlative characterisation rise quickly to the surface” survive “even in translation”

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This week's podcast was such fun to record. Discussing all things Mafalda with her translator @terribleman.com and Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin. 🎧https://pod.fo/e/319548 #booksky @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Talking to Samantha Schweblin and Biles about Mafalda on the @shakespeareandcompany.com podcast. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...

7 years ago a manuscript landed. Short listed for 7 Lit awards. A bestseller in Germany. Translated into 8 languages. 6 Part BBC TV series. Independent publishing at its very finest. Thanks @ronanhession.bsky.social for writing a wonderful book. It started here @bookcornerhx.bsky.social

Funding an activist group opposed to genocide and war crimes is not a terrorist activity. But full credit to Sally Rooney for taking on the deeply skewed political posturing of the UK government, who have done little to end a vicious war of attrition.

A fond good night to Terrence Stamp

I had to look this up and it’s an amazing story of a self-taught maths prodigy disproving a long standing conjecture: everything about it should be joyous and celebratory ofc terfdom uses it to launch off into misogyny + transphobia, as they do with everything (tells you everything about them)

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We need to big this up, a V important legal judgement; if it had gone against us it would have been all over the oligarch/transphobic media as a "Landmark" case. I suspect it may be very useful in preventing Universities from silencing trans people under the pretext of pandering to the OfS.

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I rarely do this and I know times are hard, we're all skint and the world is in a bloody mess. But is there any chance you could consider donating to this charity? The JustGiving link is in the article. I'm sure even £2/€2/$2 would help. www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/13/a...

Here are the authors who have pulled out of the Queer Polari Prize due to the inclusion of self-identified TERF/Gender Critical author Boyne. They deserve support & I think it’s worth buying from an independent bookshop or borrowing from a library!

Honoured that @terribleman.com read, reviewed and enjoyed the Palewell Press book, anthology of world poets writing for (then) imprisoned Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak that Kelly Davis and I edited. palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/hu... We published it when Ilhan was denied parole after 30 years.

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Fiction in Translation: Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin; Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka; Capitalists Must Starve by Park Seolyeon; Words that Walk through Walls by poets including Ilhan Sami Çomak

RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for Bucheon's Residency Program in 2025! Open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are from a City of Literature. Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.