So glad she/he/they got a credit on this

DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE: What moved me about this film was the way it shows, without a load of sentimental corn, how writers work, drafting and redrafting their material. It's also about how beautiful things--music, books, poetry--emerge from unhappy times.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Some 80 percent of Berlin was destroyed during WWII. Those ruins were an everyday part of Jenny Erpenbeck’s childhood, which she explores in her new essay collection, “Things That Disappear.”

Terao Tetsuya graduated from NTU in Singapore and worked as a Google engineer. His new book lays bare the disgust, fascination, and sublimated envy at the heart of technical ambition. @arghpoetica.bsky.social reviews “Spent Bullets.”

Meet the National Book Critics Circle 2025-2026 Emerging Critics Fellows! www.bookcritics.org/emerging-cri...

happy to see that the author's guild is hosting a free event on translator's contracts - translators deserve to have better contracts that ensure reasonable working conditions and protect translator rights authorsguild.org/event/transl...

this is how i found out

Here are some wonderful things writers/translators I admire have said about FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION, out in 1 month! Limited edition cover: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair... Regular cover: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/ @prototypepubs.bsky.social

The SCMP never reported Hong Kong's 140th out of 180 World Press Freedom ranking; it ran an AFP wire piece describing declining freedoms worldwide. But it's happy to trot out this obscure index no other news outlet has reported on. Oh and it's 37th out of 73; putting Hong Kong in the bottom-half

Voilà cinquante ans, les Khmers rouges prenaient le pouvoir au #Cambodge. La chercheuse Anne-Laure Porée étudie la façon dont ils déplacèrent le langage pour soutenir leur politique d’extermination. www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...

these fascinate me

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) Green Yellow and Orange, 1960

“First they came for the order of things, and my ashes said nothing, because I was a phoenix. Then they embezzled history, but memory’s account grew a forest, and that was when they came for time.”

Selamat Ulang Tahun, amuk! Happy Birthday, amuk. Thank you for the all places you took me to this past yr to read you, in person and virtually. More to come! A translation of a word, responding to systemic (mis)translation, in poetry form.

'We know all the reasons and more why the writing life isn’t worth it, and clearly none of them really matter because we still write.' Am feeling this especially in relation to the political possibilities of writing— what do words change? How and when do they matter? thepointmag.com/criticism/ca...

that last bullet point is doing some heavy lifting

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

Over a dozen University of Hong Kong (HKU) security personnel and staff escorted a small group of anti-war protesters from campus on Tuesday after calling the police to the scene. In full: buff.ly/vOAnwrf. Photos: Tom Grundy/HKFP.

I can't teach Dracula without at least mentioning The Lair of the White Worm.

Personally I would deregulate Omelas' zoning laws, allowing for the construction of more spacious domiciles and thus ultimately improving the little kid's living situation as the improvements show up down the value chain. Guess I'm just built different tho.

"I listen to the cities, so they will not wound me too much." —@jmaebarizo.bsky.social on her new book, TENDER MACHINES (@tupelopress.bsky.social), w/ @tiffanytroy.bsky.social in an interview from the latest Full Stop Quarterly, ed. by @arghpoetica.bsky.social: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/20/i....

In a set of poems, translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel, Sinan Antoon writes about the collision of death and nature. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

my “hk’s courts are independent and impartial” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

"An aimless young man finds unexpected guidance in his village's marsh in this surreal short story from Chinese writer #CanXue." #残雪 wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @wwborders.bsky.social @vivianwu.bsky.social #KarenGernant #translation #chineseliterature

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

If you’ve ever made intense eye contact with a deer and felt like it knew your secrets, this is your sign to turn that moment into art. Now open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, and Art! thedodgemag.com/submissions

Featuring new writing from Nigeria, Ghana, Myanmar, China, Poland, Finland, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, Ireland, UK, USA, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, we’re thrilled to announce that Lucky Interpret 13 has arrived 🎉

Seeing Zelensky's exchange in the white house has reminded me how much I cherish the idea of education for the sake of education. Having politicians that grow out of a well-articulated, well-rounded, and well-informed public is so important for democracy and for peace.

Deserved

For our new "Interlingual Reviews" initiative, we invite pitches for reviews of books published in languages other than English & not—or not yet—translated into English. Email the reviews team w/ any pitches, drafts, or Q's: www.full-stop.net/masthead/.

marrowbone!!!

current read

“The word ‘white’ is a code, the way the word ‘fascism’ is, words to try to signal emergency near damages too deep and wide to describe.” Up now: “Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white” by Suzanne Gardinier. Art by @jeanmariecasbarian.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fort-ja...

More art for the new graphic memoir: "It turns out, we don't need the Gods to turn into birds."

"AGAIN I HEAR THESE WATERS attempts to create a world where songs and verses represent both erasure and belonging." Sayani Sarkar reviews an anthology of poems from the Miyah movement, curated and translated by Shalim M. Hussain (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/21/r....

thank you for sharing, Annelous! take care and best wishes! :)

bonkers that this has to be said. it’s as if people were translating Latin poems into English on the basis of a machine translation from Italian

loved working on this brilliant essay about relationality and relatability--how can we approach works of literature from realms unfamiliar to us? which is really: how can we understand other people? grateful to Lara for her honed empathy, and to @fullstopmag.bsky.social for publishing!

feeling kinda immune to inspirational images lately (not actually in a bad way, just kinda in-the-present-moment-and-ok-with-that) but fuck this one got me

thank you for sharing, May! 💛

the way, in Mediaeval paintings, when the Angel comes to rest, the trees, the fruits, the swallows in the eaves are brightened from within, and each least thing, because, and not in spite of what it seems, is all it is, and all Annunciation. John Burnside 1955-2024, from Ruin, Blossom.

The Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute has announced it will suspend all self-funded research and "even close down," a month after its CEO was investigated by national security police. In full: https://buff.ly/4hVwAye

"At a moment when nationalism and isolationism are rising in both Europe and the United States, the window that literature can provide into other cultures feels essential." Great profile of @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social & case for international lit in the NYTimes today

“The stories are many and the emotion is one.” —Claudia Rankine

We're excited to share a piece from our latest Full Stop Quarterly, edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt: Alex Tan's review of TRACES OF ENAYAT by Iman Mersal is up on our site today. The full issue is available to Patreon members + for purchase on Gumroad: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/13/f....

LAST DAY TO APPLY! 💘 If you like what Full Stop does and want like to get involved, now is your chance: We're looking to expand our Interviews team! Fill out our (simple✨) application form by Feb 15: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

May is far too kind and has so much to teach me--as well as the generosity and openness to share her experience and wisdom with me! How to express how grateful I am? Can't wait to meet you in November <3