Just in time for the weekend, reorganized the German language section, should be a lot easier to browse fiction and non-fiction. Sections for GDR history, Weimar, and more. Also sections for Austrian literature, children's books, and YA! #austria #Germanlanguage #indiebookstore

The U.S. has deported scores of Russians back home under the second Trump administration. But few are known to have replicated what Artyom Vovchenko did next: he escaped for a second time.

If you're looking to escape the heat, we've got ice cool screens, the best popcorn in London and one hell of a line-up waiting for you at the PCC this weekend! 🎟️: buff.ly/CHrqrI1

Why does Jolyon think that June's proposal that Soames have a child with someone thus allowing Irene to divorce him and then he can marry the other woman "partizanship" that's "fighting Soames's battle"? Wouldn't it put Soames in a bad light, not Irene? #ForsyteSaga26

Irene stands up to Soames: "I would rather die [...] his face was pressed away by her hands." But in keeping with her passivity, she does not say it loudly; she whispers, sighs, and stares. I want to like her, and I do sympathize, but she's maddening, or rather G is in writing her. #ForsyteSaga26

My short story collection SECRET KEEPERS hanging out with Alys Arden, James Lee Burke, and others at Blue Cypress Books on my favorite street, Oak, in New Orleans.

"In this very heart of England's gentility it was difficult to realise that a lonely woman could be importuned or hunted ... 'Eighteen-ninety-nine!' he thought ... 'but when it comes to property we're still a heathen people!'" #ForsyteSaga26

"there she was like an empty house only waiting to be retaken into use and possession by him who legally owned her" Women = possessions. Entitlement embodied. "Clueless" comes to mind to describe Soames's utter lack of understanding of how much Irene loathes him. #ForsyteSaga26

There's a lot to praise G for as a writer - intriguing plots, poignant observations, humor, nature imagery - but moving the action along through coincidence isn't one of them. Jolyon just happening to see Soames after dropping off Irene isn't the first such clumsy plot device. #ForsyteSaga26

This is what the World Cup is about. More of this please. And a lot less fascism.

"The Search" by @anchalastudio.bskylsocial, in case you missed it. Anne is editor and art director for the literary journal @doesithavepockets.bsky.social and lives in North Carolina.

Soames's "slight shock of discovering that the war might touch one personally." When it really touches one personally, the shock won't be slight. #ForsyteSaga26

After years of finding US publishers uninterested in Dorothy Richardson's modernist masterpiece, Pilgrimage, I decided to reissue it myself. Here are some reflections on why I feel so passionate about Pilgrimage and becoming its first US publisher in 50 years. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Newspaper headline re: Boers "repudiate suzerainty" makes Soames think they are like Irene in this and that he "still ha[s] it by rights." Which is what the British think re: the Boers. @olgaz.bsky.social made an earlier connection b/w colonialism and patriarchy and here it is again. #ForsyteSaga26

It's the weekend! Time for our weekend sale! Use the code 5MZ1KUEC during checkout and save 15%! Support indie bookstores bergstrompressbooks.com/en/

I never expected the writing of John #Galsworthy to be so unfussy, insightful and funny. A big thank you to @lizoksbooks.bsky.social & her posse who made me want to read #TheManofProperty, vol 1 of #TheForsyteSaga. #ForsyteSaga26 #Booksky

Soames and Annette are made for each other, as both have objectionable politics. She agrees with his attitude toward the Boers (and she and her mother are anti-Dreyfus, which he's fine with). He's also a rapist, although she doesn't know this (yet?). #ForsyteSaga26 share.google/Y8Fl6Zo6ZzjV...

"We pride ourselves on editing and on working with our authors to develop their pieces. Which makes us slow! But also--I believe--worth the while." As the contributor to the slowness, very much agree. Love working with you, @olgaz.bsky.social !

Back then, Tatsiana had just completed her novel ab memory & digital immortality that became a wonderful Смерти.net--another as of yet untranslated novel worthy of attention! Today, we're running an excerpt from Satchkova's 2026 Eng-language debut. Check it out! puncturedlines.com/2026/06/17/a...

Last but not least for today, from the year 2020, is a translation of Svetlana Satchkova's interview with Tatsiana Zamirovskaya that we titled “Just because Belarusians write in Russian doesn’t mean they’re a part of Russian culture.” puncturedlines.com/2020/08/07/j...

Hilah Kohen's Twitter thread to a link of resources on Blackness, Racism, and Russian and Eurasian Studies. You can still find it on X, but PL's story provides a bit more context: puncturedlines.com/2020/07/21/r...

-- @yelenafurman.bsky.social 's classic Book Love post about Julia Voznesenskaya's The Women's Decameron -- speaking of great untranslated books -- really, English language translation publishers, take note!! puncturedlines.com/2020/07/15/b...

-- My piece on Carolyn Gold Heilbrun's monograph about Constance Garnett that keeps coming up for me for various good and bad readsons: puncturedlines.com/2020/07/07/c...

Some fun highlights from our early days: -- Hilah Kohen's thread on queer russophone sci fi anthology from Bishkek (that she later developed into a podcast for Meduza!) puncturedlines.com/2020/02/04/h...

We pride ourselves on editing and on working with our authors to develop their pieces. Which makes us slow! But also--I believe--worth the while. I learned a ton through working on these pieces. Take a look at our full story archives puncturedlines.com/story-archiv...

This summer marks 7 years since @yelenafurman.bsky.social and I started @puncturedlines.bsky.social, a feminist blog on literatures of the former Soviet Union and diaspora. We've published 219 posts on Word Press and have worked with at least 89 authors (according to my imperfect files).

Link to the excerpt: puncturedlines.com/2026/06/17/a...

Read an excerpt from Svetlana Satchkova’s English-language debut, THE UNDEAD: A Novel of Modern Russia, published earlier this year by @melvillehouse.bsky.social. A story of an aspiring Moscow filmmaker, who makes an arthouse horror movie and then finds herself arrested and prosecuted.

Today on @punctured.bsky.social we published an excerpt from a new book that satirizes and illuminates Moscow film industry of the 2010s. Huge thanks as always to @yelenafurman.bsky.social who adds class and professionalism to our blogging enterprise by reading everything so closely!

Today on @puncturedlines.bsky.social an excerpt from Svetlana Satchkova's English-language debut, The Undead: A Novel of Modern Russia. Thank you to @olgaz.bsky.social for this piece on the blog. puncturedlines.com/2026/06/17/a...

G on target describing Val's teenage self-centeredness & nascent maturation. Of the several examples in this chapter: "and, happening to look at his mother's face, he got what was perhaps his first real insight into the fact that his own feelings were not always what mattered most." #ForsyteSaga26

Jolyon on Soames saying he's the injured party: "His reason agreed, his instinct rebelled [...] Again Jolyon's reason nodded; again his instinct shook its head." This is turning into AK. Why is divorce so tricky here when adultery was grounds for it? share.google/EipczKaTXjam... #ForsyteSaga26

Polish police said they arrested two Belarusian citizens following the deadly shooting on Monday morning, but they have yet to press charges.

Jolyon on the older generation Forsytes' utter lack of self-consciousness and its connection to their longevity: "Never to see yourself as others see you, it's a wonderful preservative." #ForsyteSaga26

We are a city of watch parties and fanzones (didn't go in, just happened to walk past), childlike fun, and the Pacific Ocean, whose majesty can't be captured in photos.

Oceanheart is just starting out her adult life and yet the choices she makes as a daughter, wife, and mother — as well as a recent college graduate — are made amidst the chaos, despair, and danger of war. @katyacengel.bsky.social talks to Natalie Oceanheart: puncturedlines.com/2026/05/20/w...

Natalie Oceanheart's LIFE BEYOND FEAR: A UKRAINIAN WOMAN'S MEMOIR is written by a survivor as well as a trained psychologist who aims to help people by sharing her story. Read @katyacengel.bsky.social's interview with Oceanheart on Punctured Lines. Link below. #Ukraine #memoir #survivor #book

The awkwardness of (No-Longer-Young) Jolyon receiving Soames in the house Soames was supposed to own, in the hall he was supposed to hang his own pictures... That said, J on S: "What was there in the fellow that made it so difficult to be sorry for him? [...] 'He's pathetic!'" #ForsyteSaga26

Thank you so much for posting this along with a repost of @bergstrombookstore.bsky.social's photo of the two books! I love Egana's book and am grateful to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for publishing it in my translation!

This book is amazing. If you don't read Russian, you can read it in @lizoksbooks.bsky.social 's translation. If you'd like to read an excerpt (before you buy, which you definitely should), it's here: share.google/9oTP4t9wg4nf...

What are your reading plans for the weekend? Might we make a suggestion? @newvesselpress.bsky.social with another great translation. Indie press and indie bookstore for the win!

Two unrelated parts from today's chapter: one about how Soho is the opposite of a Forsyte place for the humorous reasons below (I love Soho irl); the other, about the French anti-Semitism of Annette and her mother and Soames's objectionable disregard of it. #ForsyteSaga26

#Forsytesaga26 An interesting mention of the Dreyfus case here. Jews are not mentioned by name, and Galsworthy doesn't bother giving Soames a political opinion, he's only using politics "in making closer acquiantanceship with Madame Lamotte and her daughter, who were Catholic and anti-Dreyfusard."

More invention of English phrases: "'It's quite O.K.,' said George--it was he* who invented so many of those quaint sayings which have been assigned to other sources." *or Galsworthy, or Galsworthy pretending it was himself #ForsyteSaga26

"You are the limit, Monty." (Undoubtedly the inception of that phrase--so is English formed under the stress of circumstances.) #ForsyteSaga26

Compare the cast of characters: on the left, the group read one in which I just finished "Interlude"; on the right, the one I'm about to start and hence finished "Interlude" for (no spoilers, but sadly predictable). #ForsyteSaga26

Ah, Britain. You can still find that attitude there today. On the positive side, "Londony" is a great word. #ForsyteSaga26

Happening next week!!

"Outside Events" by Yejun Chun, who writes from Seoul, South Korea, and studies at Yonsei. His works have been published in The Academy of American Poets among other places.

"but women, somehow--even the best--got a little on one's nerves, unless of course one admired them." Of course. Reading after 6 days of editing senior thesis drafts for the last time and waiting for election results, a saga all its own. #ForsyteSaga26