Bye, March, don't let the door hit you on the way out

And languages in countries that use the metric system have their own equivalent with meters. Here's the word for "short film" (literally: "short footage") in… France: court-métrage Spain: cortometraje Italy: cortometraggio Romania: scurtmetraj Russia: короткометражный фильм (korotkometrazhnyy fil'm)

A painted ship upon a painted ocean ~ the sea turns to mercury in this luminous image of a fishing fleet by Californian impressionist William Ritschel (‘Boats Returning Home’ c 1915, Irvine Museum, University of California)

I really wish I didn't have deadlines for five separate projects right now :( (Thankfully, I love most of them...)

Thesis #17: Translation is the closest form of reading.

Palestinian Man Recounts Brutal Sexual Assault by Israeli Settlers www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/w...

The law backing up what everyone who makes stories will tell ya: ideas ain't worth the fig in a newton, the execution of said ideas is all that counts

"On the road, they stopped for some coffee. Got out of the car and felt the hot, bracing desert air in their throat as a fact and I everywhere above them, everywhere, as if there were no more borders, no more barriers, just an earth as unbounded as the heavens..."

Great thread from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the replies here.

Super touched to receive the physical Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize certificate in the mail… should I get it framed?? Allez les méduses !!! 🪼🪼🪼

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Steller's Sea Cow. © Leonhard Stejneger (1851–1943)

FWIW, newspaper book review sections are part of the mission of journalism. Every year, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles tell us something we didn't know before, or advance the craft of verse and prose in new ways. This is the purpose of reviews: to alert us to the shaping of our culture.

We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"The day is like wide water, without sound..." Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" in HARMONIUM (1923)

“What does anger look like when it’s used for beauty?” www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

The Grey King, honestly… he opening page is etched in my memory!

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

Wind and water raged with storms, Wave and shingle were shackled on ice Until another year appeared in the yard – Beowulf, tr. Heaney

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Hi there. Isn't it interesting how the most popular TV shows and movies this year (Sinners, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Heated Rivalry) were all hyper specific stories, proving that "universal appeal" (i.e. appealing to white straight folks) is not actually that appealing?

Good thread

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Of course I got Volume Three at Three Lives on November 18th Happy ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME Day to those not doomed to repeat it forever…

If Not, Winter (Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho) & Enig Marcheur (Nicholas Richard’s translation of Riddley Walker)

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

"Don't do it with publication in mind, don't do it for posterity, don't do it for the likes…Just write for the sake of it. Write to see what your own thoughts look like when you force them into sentences" Joan Westenberg on how regular writing debugs cognition www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...

You want a special Halloween early-voting sticker, don’t you? Go vote Mamdani before the polls close at 4!!! 🎃

A way to have a good weekend is to go to a local bookstore this afternoons and buy something random and counterintuitive from the staff picks shelf, and spend the next two days reading it.

Building up: The annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber, in Timbuktu. It was erected in the 14th century during the reign of Mansa Kankou Moussa and is 700 years old. Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP

🇦🇺Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub volunteering in Gaza City writes: “Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide...

If being anti-fascist is "antiamerican" then supporting America is __________?

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been left homeless in less than a week due to “large-scale destruction” caused by Israeli attacks across Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up

Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...