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"Manickavel's Starving Boys... infest whole regions, have (literally) delicious delicate skin, and count among their enemies 'people who are active on social media'" M.L. Clark's 2019 review in Strange Horizons strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... The Zine: www.blaft.com/products/the...

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We're delighted to announce that Bukhman Philanthropies has made a generous commitment to fund the next 10 years of the International Booker Prize. In recognition of the decade-long commitment, the prize will be named the Bukhman International Booker Prize. Find out more:

We’re delighted to reveal the judging panel for the Bukhman International Booker Prize 2027. Katie Kitamura will act as Chair and will be joined Patrick McGuinness, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Olga Ravn and Tessa Thompson.  Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

fun fact about this book- it has a lot of tamil words in it. luckily there's a glossary! there's no glossary, please pre-order it anyway🙏

Interior at Nice, 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1212396

Yougaiz there is so much beautiful stuff in this book www.blaft.com/collections/...

Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #womensart

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Water bird. Definitely warming up now. Don’t forget to leave a little water in some outside shade if you can! #heatwave #pencil

Crocheted canopy for shade in public space, created by 40 local women of Cartaya, Spain #WomensArt

I asked Norman Rockwell's granddaughter, Daisy Rockwell, about this use of her grandfather's work. She writes: "It goes without saying that they have completely misunderstood the meaning of the painting, which is tolerance for others and peaceful coexistence."

Monkey falconer. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century. British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 270r. #medieval #medievalart

Tughra: Shah Muhammad bin Ibrahim Khan, al-muzaffar daima (Sultan Mehmed, son of Ibrahim Khan, the eternally victorious; Calligraphy (Ottoman Turkish Signature), Single Page Manuscript https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.525

Public intellectual Cass Sunstein has lost it. About 20% of the content is footnotes starting like, "I asked Claude if it cares about its continued existence." "If and when AI has emotions, it has moral rights, and it should be entitled to legal rights as well." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thomas and Barbara Metcalf have been so important to the study of South Asia, for decades. Thomas was influential in shaping and informing South Asian and British imperial studies at Cal and the wider world. He will be missed. southasia.berkeley.edu/news/remembe...

Sad to hear the passing of one of the most prominent historian of modern South Asia, Thomas Metcalf (May 31, 1934–June 18, 2026) who spent his seven decades long career at UC Berkeley.

Narrator Amy falls victim to a deepfake porn video (“I’m slightly annoyed that the woman has a massive ass”) and has to navigate mob reaction, inc the “psychotic moral pedantry” of Gen Z: “it’s like listening to your parents.” Me on Meena Kandasamy’s incendiary new novel Fieldwork as a Sex Object:

If you're outside India head to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social for the international edition: angryrobotbooks.com/books/a-revi...

🎉Cover reveal!!🎉 For the Indian edition of A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social Illustration by Saurav a.k.a. Drawnk Pre-order link: www.blaft.com/collections/...

Now that women no longer wear hats, we have no idea what the future holds.

Hydrangeas and Other Garden Flowers, John Ross Key, 1882.

‘Oh, to be a Moomin and to dance in the waves while the sun gets up! The night was forgotten and a long June day lay before them.’ ~ Tove Jansson. #BookWormSat

Portraits of Actors and Actresses: Thirteen Lithographs (Portraits d'Acteurs & Actrices: Treize Lithographies)

Rustam meets the challenge of Ashkabus, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020) https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.199

Fairy puff! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1912.

Garden of love https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19232

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Again, if anybody had thought to talk to the translators that were among the very first guinea pigs for much of the underlying technology and workflows for over a decade, we could've told you this is exactly what would happen to your productivity. But who needs to put a face to translation anyway? 🥴

Densification and electrification in 1930s New York altered daily cycles by making the nights less dark. House at Dusk (1935) captures the hinge hour when the rising city glow meets the last light of domestic life.

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Taddeo Gaddi of Florence. Here, an Annunciation from the 1340s.

Study of the Head of a Blind Man https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28461

The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1969–70) uses repetition and negative spaces to create optical illusions. The same motif reappears until it clicks into a bullfighter, showing a masterful application of Dali's "paranoiac-critical method."

Want to purchase a copy of Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING and support one of Bengaluru's coolest indie bookshops? Find it at Champaca Bookstore (or on their website): champaca.in/products/ind... Includes typography walking tour maps of Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi & Mumbai!

Still Life with Blue Tablecloth, 1909 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15779

Reclining woman https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31311

The US version of beloved VIOLENT PHENOMENA antho of essays on translation is out today! With a foreword from Bruna Dantas Lobato. Congrats @jeremytiang.bsky.social Kavita Bhanot, and all fellow contributors. www.harpercollins.com/products/vio...

Masayo Fukuda (Japanese Artist, born 1973) "Octopus", 2018. Kirie Style, 42 × 59.4 cm. Cut from a single Sheet of white A2 Paper. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Massachusett word of the day: unnont8waonk */ənãːtəwaːãːk/ "language" the first part is the root for "speak", and -onk (*wãːk-) is a suffix that forms abstract nouns. cf. Abenaki lôdwawôgan

The Minotaur https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19644

To no one's surprise, Penguin India has self censored on behalf of our regime and won't be publishing Sacco's THE ONCE AND FUTURE RIOT, about the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots. So it won't be on shelves here.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

The Green Interior or Figure in front of a Window with Drawn https://www.wikiart.org/en/edouard-vuillard/the-green-interior-or-figure-in-front-of-a-window-with-drawn

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mollusques méditeranéens [!] Gènes: Impr, des sourds-muets, 1851. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831) #nature #illustration #art

Keep hearing about unis all over India where THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF is on the syllabus But everybody pirates it Listen, I get it. Students don't have money. But maybe uni bookstores could stock a few copies? Profs could chip in? HarperCollins is owned by Murdochs. We are not. C'mon guys

Killer Whale vessel painted ceramic c. 100 BCE - 800 CE Nazca culture Peru #handmade #art #ancientart #nazcaculture #peru #painted #ceramic #killerwhale #vessel #bottle #ritual #ceremonial #belief #religion #precolumbian #prehispanic #tribalart #larcomuseum #lima

Tumbling right out of picture along with her wares, a produce seller. Waffles also involved here! By Pieter Aertsen in his waffly Antwerp days.

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“