Daisy Rockwell
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Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc.
http://www.daisyrockwell.com
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My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract:
www.vogue.com/article/norm...
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Bodega Cats
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Aditya Bidikar
1 day ago
Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla passed away a couple of days ago, and Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai – a wonderful documentary about him – seems to now be available to watch for free on YouTube. It's a powerful portrait of stillness, and well worth a watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6q...
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Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai - Vinod Kumar Shukla - Film
YouTube video by achalchitra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6q9EJ58ps
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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️
1 day ago
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
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These visits by ghostes koude have been three emayles.
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Bryan Blessed (Virgin Birth)👶🏾🌟
1 day ago
Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.
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Tom Cox
2 days ago
For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos.
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Jesse Raber
3 days ago
Did the annual *White Christmas* rewatch, time to reup this take (which I know I've posted before but bsky seems to have eaten): *White Christmas* is an extended riff on *The Waste Land*. A land no longer productive (of snow) can only be restored when a once-great ruler is restored to honor.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus
3 days ago
From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work,
@saudaminideo.bsky.social
explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world.
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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Postcolonial Translations and the Reception of Indian Literature in the West - Words Without Borders
From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, Deo explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western…
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2025-04/postcolonial-translations-and-the-reception-of-indian-literature-in-the-west-deo/
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Helen Kennedy
3 days ago
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
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3 days ago
A rare series of watercolors by Hilma af Klint, The Tree of Knowledge c.1913-15
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Tom Cox
6 days ago
THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...
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derek guy
4 days ago
told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime
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McSweeney's
4 days ago
The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.
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I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled
Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility, Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepe...
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Joumana Medlej
4 days ago
Oh hell YES. I've long maintained that based on the result of ink recipes, the word "azraq" couldn't mean "blue" in early Arabic texts but seems instead to be yellowish. Now I have textual proof: "Take red arsenic [realgar] or if you wish, azraq"—no such thing as blue arsenic, this means yellow!
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4 days ago
Contemporary Ukranian painter Maria Chepeleva
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Karly Kingsley
5 days ago
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The Massachusetts Review
17 days ago
"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief." Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for
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massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
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7 Questions for Ibrahim Fawzy - The Massachusetts Review
Not just one death,one victim tells another:they killed me by the roadside. —from Ibrahim Fawzy’s translation of Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s “Not Just One Death” (Volume 65, issue 4) What role does language ...
https://massreview.org/2025/12/08/7-questions-for-ibrahim-fawzy/
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derek guy
6 days ago
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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My novel, Alice Sees Ghosts, will be published in the US by Galiot Press in October 2026! 🎄🎄🎄
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Ploughshares Literary Journal
14 days ago
"In this tug of war between tongue and tail, what got bruised, and what wavered, was the spine..." Read Geetanjali Shree's story (translated by Daisy Rockwell) "And I Saw Myself Running" in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week!
https://bit.ly/3MFC5Xy
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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷
14 days ago
By Geetanjali Shree. A brief magnificent story in a translation by Daisy Rockwell.
#booksky
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granta.com/all-at-once/
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All at Once
‘On the surface, everything had continued as it always had, so why would it occur to anyone to pay any special attention?’
https://granta.com/all-at-once/
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My novel, Alice Sees Ghosts, will be published in the US by Galiot Press in October 2026! 🎄🎄🎄
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David M. Perry
6 days ago
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
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Frank Wynne
6 days ago
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New-Cleckit Dominie
7 days ago
Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
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Jérôme Melançon
6 days ago
And from experience, 'revising' AI translation is more demanding and less rewarding, so there are enormous incentives to doing it quickly and badly beyond being paid less and needing more contracts.
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Amba Azaad
6 days ago
"Autonomous" academy of letters letting fascist govt's minister of culture dictate who and how it awards writers.
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7 days ago
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Paul Franz
7 days ago
Translating literature is itself a form of art. No algorithm could render into English Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" with anything like the beauty that William Weaver did.
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National Book Critics Circle
7 days ago
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
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Rima I Anabtawi
7 days ago
It’s obscene.
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derek guy
8 days ago
A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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Juan Cole
9 days ago
Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran
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Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran
Her extramural speech on matters of public concern were within her scholarly expertise on the politics of the Middle East
http://dlvr.it/TPsGZK
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia)
8 days ago
Proud to announce Spring 2026’s What Is Research Now? from Paul Mellon Ctr, co-convened by Sria Chatterjee, Kenny Fries, & myself. DISABLED LEGACIES: BEYOND ACCESS AND INCLUSION
www.britishart.ac.uk/about/news/w...
26-28 Feb & 26-28 Mar 2026
@jaivirdi.com
@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
many more ✨
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Mike (1 of many)
9 days ago
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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Laura in excelsis 🎄❄️
9 days ago
every page has these abbreviations which seem to relate to the text - if anyone knows anything about deciphering them, whether there are standard reference works to them, etc., I would be very glad to hear it!
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Jerry Edwards
10 days ago
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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19. I was in grad school when email got going so I had an .edu address, no AOL.
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite
10 days ago
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Merriam-Webster
10 days ago
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Bodega Cats
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
10 days ago
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2026’s 16-book Longlist The International Prize for Arabic Fiction today announced 2026's judges and 16-book longlist.
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2026’s 16-book Longlist
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction today announced 2026's judges and 16-book longlist.
https://arablit.org/2025/12/15/international-prize-for-arabic-fiction-announces-2026s-16-book-longlist/
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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist
11 days ago
It’s the right time of the year to post a painting of a turtle dove. Painted on cradle gesso panel, with a pure silver leaf sky. These gentle birds, now much endangered well once the background sound to our childhood summers.
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This is the way to defend our honor!
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Frank Garrett
12 days ago
Take away a translator's dictionaries, knowledge of grammar, experience overseas, decades of research and deep reading, professional development over the course of a lifetime, coffee, and a deep-seated self-loathing that first brought them to the profession and they have nothing.
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Michael Lobel
11 days ago
Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art
www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202
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Laleh Khalili
12 days ago
This is basically EVERY university in the Anglophone world.
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Tripping the Light Fantastick
13 days ago
Chomsky’s language ideologies have directly contributed to a culture of linguistics in America where arrogant Anglophone children scoff at you if you dare ask them if they speak something besides English Where was our great anti-colonial leftist hero? Encouraging it.
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Shivangi
13 days ago
Hi folks — I’m back on the job market and open to roles + freelance work in language and localisation. I work across Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Angika and over the last few years I’ve taught, translated, interpreted, edited, and generally helped people communicate better across contexts. 🧵
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