Das ist der Nährboden, auf dem das Netzwerk von Jeffrey Epstein gedeihen konnten: Die kalauernde Normalisierung der Sexualisierung von Kinderm. Wer so redet, sollte 2026 kein Ministerpräsident werden.

We asked some friends, too:

imo it doesn't get much better than: Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend

Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper: “I was looking at the map when Stephen swerved, hit the rock, and occasioned the miscarriage.” (Didn’t even have to look it up. It lives in my head.)

Not often you seen "Oi!" in European cultural discourse: it can only be @ajbwells.bsky.social, here with his "extra scoop of Auflauf": namely on great book openings... theauflauf.substack.com/p/oi-quick-q...

oh, Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, nur nicht für uns

A fantastic evening yesterday, (critically) celebrating Christa Wolf at Lettrétage with @juliabosson.bsky.social @paulscraton.bsky.social @ajbwells.bsky.social @katyderbyshire.bsky.social Sanders Bernstein, Agnieszka Gasparska, Sylvia Krupicka & Roxie Perkins.

This is me, @katyderbyshire.bsky.social and @ajbwells.bsky.social about to start our chat about the life and work of Christa Wolf. Luckily we only found out Wolf’s daughter was in the audience after we’d finished!

Come along to our Christa Wolf event in Berlin tomorrow to hear @katyderbyshire.bsky.social read from her translations—and more—while we explore Wolf's post-Wall legacy in discussion & texts submitted from all across town >> psst also it's free >> www.lettretage.de/Termine/chri...

In the Auflauf's first monthly author interview, @mathildegm.bsky.social dials up @tobiasvryan.bsky.social in his Parisian garret to talk about unrelatable fiction, @minorliteratures.bsky.social, and the Unreal (European) City of his soul ....... theauflauf.substack.com/p/tobias-rya...

@tobiasvryan.bsky.social has written a gross, beautiful, challenging book about a horrible man who won't leave you alone – and I got to talk to him about it for The Auflauf:

„In der Substanz ist das das Gleiche wie bei Vance“ – dafür gab es „stehende Ovationen“. Stephan Detjen ist die Irritation deutlich anzuhören. Selten gab es eine so klare Einschätzung zu dem Sachverhalt wie heute im DLF.

wohnungssuche essen seele auf

Ihr müsst das verstehen, wo soll denn das Geld für die Olympia-Bewerbung und die Magnetschwebebahn sonst herkommen www.tagesspiegel.de/koalition-ku...

Nooteboom passed away. 💔💔💔

deadline closes FEB 10TH send us your BEST

Cool new project alert!!! Subscribe for more soon! I was honoured to fact-check the gossip section for this issue; will also be doing reviews, interviews, &c. in future instalments

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

War Hitler links? Nein, das war er nicht. Es ist eine rechte Rechts-Links-Umkehr. Schade, dass FAZ diesen bespielt, schon durch den Titel. Als sei das eine ernst zu nehmende Frage! Und schade, dass Götz Aly hier mitspielt. Interessant das FAZ mit einer polit. Stiftung kooperiert.

european teams have huge leverage over the spectacle's present & future viability. why not make a statement—in this already unjust enough world game—that we won't go to a party that our mates from senegal (&c.) can't go to? also odd not to mention the apartheid sports boycotts, which did have impact

Remigration bedeutet ein deutsches #ICE und damit enorme Gewalt gegen Millionen von Menschen, die in den Augen der AfD keine Deutschen sind. Daraus macht die AfD keinen Hehl mehr. Hat sie nie, denn wie will man die anberaumten 25 Millionen Menschen, anders loswerden, als mit staatlicher Gewalt?

WE WANT YOUR PROSE—submit now to read at our Feb 21 Lettrétage event about Christa Wolf (and her post-Wall writing e.g. One Day A Year). Send us some short prose in any language about the day, the daily, the recurring date, everyday politics. We will print a zine! sites.google.com/view/mayroec...

WE WANT YOUR PROSE—submit now to read at our Feb 21 Lettrétage event about Christa Wolf (and her post-Wall writing e.g. One Day A Year). Send us some short prose in any language about the day, the daily, the recurring date, everyday politics. We will print a zine! sites.google.com/view/mayroec...

"Das Berliner Ensemble und sein Publikum haben in diesem Winter gemeinsam 90.000 Euro für die Kältehilfe der Berliner Stadtmission gesammelt. Es ist die höchste Spendensumme seit Beginn der Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadtmission im Jahr 2018" 🫶🏾

It's out!🍾 I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today" It is Open Access! 👇 You can download it here for free. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

incredible stuff 🫡 @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:

I reviewed Gabriele Tergit's THE EFFINGERS, a mighty and brilliant and extremely readable book out now in English thanks to a cracking translation by Sophie Duvernoy >>> www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Was wir von Anfang an, seit Oktober 2023 sagten, beschrieben, analysierten - und dafür markiert, isoliert und diffamiert wurden - wird nun Teil eines neuen gesellschaftlichen Konsens. Allein: Welche Verantwortung tragen diejenigen, die aus medialer und intellektueller Position geschwiegen haben?

Good morning with Tomas Tranströmer ciceronean us to the beginning of Winter A Winter Night The storm puts its mouth to the house and blows to get a tone

Wie die Israel-Lobby-Organisation ELNET die Staatsräson zementiert: Unsere Recherche in der @taz.de über ihren außergewöhnlichen Einfluss auf die deutshe Politik, die Waffendiplomatie, die sie betreibt, & über die Siedler und Trump-Anhänger, die für diesen Verein arbeiten oder spenden.

wer jetzt nich dirk rossmann krimis kauft hilft nur der afd

object-oriented hauntology

“There is no real reason for Antipodeans to be here, & no real reason for the Germans to take an interest in us. But sometimes it is the unreal that generates the conditions fit for literature” @ajbwells.bsky.social’s keynote in Berlin earlier this year - now online! stadtsprachen.de/de/text/home...

... and then an investigation into the weird, precocious, maybe sui generis dioramas of the early-nineteenth-century Surinamese artist Gerrit Schouten. publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

I have two new pieces up at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social this week: first, about the human-animal hybrids of Louis XIV's court painter Charles le Brun... publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...

tomorrow >>>

quick everyone repost your Krasznahorkai essays!!!! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Berliners! Next Wednesday (15/10) at @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social: hear @brookfiles.bsky.social talking about his new Magnus Hirschfeld bio, The Einstein of Sex, and me re my translation of Hirschfeld’s Berlin’s Third Sex, moderated by @ajbwells.bsky.social www.curiousfoxbooks.com/events

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Rally to save Meanjin magazine Thursday 11 Sept 9am 715 Swanston St Carlton A number of Australian writers, editors and academics will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

"I once met someone who takes a photo of the borrower with the book in their hands, so they know exactly what’s where..." @ajbwells.bsky.social on book borrowing/lending www.the-berliner.com/books/whos-g...

Latest column for The Berliner mag aka who has my bloody book??? www.the-berliner.com/books/whos-g...

the only good social media is comments section for disco music on youtube

Unrechtstaat BRD

Some pics from the launch of Poor Ghost! on Weds. Thanks to everyone who came out and to @lettretage.de for hosting, @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social for selling books, and @ajbwells.bsky.social for being his very charming self and asking great questions.

quick reminder that this symposium-festival of wonderful Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand authors will be on next Saturday in Berlin!! just check out that line-up 👀👀....... stadtsprachen.de/de/event/par...

My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff. I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.

funny when you're in an archaeology museum and the wall text soberly informs you that a certain weird object "was likely used for rituals, potentially of a sacred or religious nature". it's ok mate just admit you don't know !!!

This legend's book launch is at Lettrétage tonight >> www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...