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Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora: Review by Jake Casella Brookins locusmag.com/review/...

Again I say: get this book, I can already tell it's going to be a stand-out of the year. Strange, funny, and humane.

Oh that's easy I would start with INDEPENDENT TROPICAL WALES

Just remarkable how suddenly the newfound interest in Welsh politics of the UK-wide commentariat evaporated the second Reform got beaten.

Excerpt from my latest translation published in LitHub today! lithub.com/argentina-th...

this is such a brilliant and entertaining piece!

New in @equatormag.bsky.social, a dispatch from Havana, where recurrent fuel shortages have created a permanent state of crisis. Translated from Spanish by @rahulbery.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/aft...

I think this is the last anglophone paper of record to be ticked off my list! Another great review for the US edition of my translation of Centroeuropa!

Dengue Boy a top ten finalist in this year's Locus Awards! 🤞

Just seen the blurb on k*thleen stock's assisted dying book and I have some VERY bad news for 45-year old fans of cod-mystical, mid-tempo piano schlock.

amazing piece

De la pila de novedades, Lincoln Michel toma una y lee la primera página. Y se queda -y explica los motivos, uno muy interesante-. Y la termina, y lee sobre ella, y todo le vuela la cabeza, y está bien que el azar exista: countercraft.substack.com/p/i-loved-th...

Achieved something quite spectacular today: placed my phone on top of my car while getting something from the boot, then, as I shut the boot, the phone fell into the gap and I pulverised it, as if it had been placed in a vice. And I only have a little over a year left to pay off on it!

Today seems a good day to re-ask the question: "how's this stupid shit working out for everyone?"

googling the new book by Portuguese author Afonso Cruz, 'A Cozinheira do Ditador' and the AI results that I didn't ask for cannot figure out that that's that I'm looking for, and instead tells me that 'Afonso Cruz não é um ditador.' Afonso Cruz isn't a dictator. Wow, thanks!

The Israeli government is now doing to southern Lebanon what it has done to Gaza. Horror and death on an unimaginable scale. And still our governments supply weapons, intelligence and diplomatic support. #PartyToTheCrime

I may be only 8% Irish in terms of genes but I don't see any of the actual Irish people I follow mainlining Seamus Ennis piping videos, so I think I win St Patrick's Day this year. My gift to you all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrXs...

I wrote an article about the exquisite torture of translating Centroeuropa that Vicente has said is novelesque: it begins as a mystery and ends as a confession.

Thanks! This was a wonderful book- the kind that invites multiple reads. Thanks for the beautiful translation!

The US version of Centroeuropa by @vicenteluismora.bsky.social is out today, in my translation, with Bellevue press. Rachel has written a brilliant and sensitive review, and I particularly love the framing of it as a speculative rather than historical novel!

It's 2003 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East It's 2026 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f... I have not read the review or the book but it touched my bitter, twisted heart to see an article by a guy called Rahul about another guy called Rahul

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

We're excited to offer a new webinar for our members - Beyond Pitching: Other Routes to Work! Join PELTA members @rahulbery.bsky.social, Sophie Lewis & Nina Perrotta to learn about reader reports, publishing in journals, translating samples & more - free to members! Joining info on our website!

Fash: bashed. But listening to r4, so many red flags: constantly framing reform as the party to beat when they didn't come close in G & D or Caerphilly; and how much Polanski will be monstered the more of a genuine threat he becomes. Hopefully the anti-semitism won't wash as much as it did with...

non-stop happenings today. My translation of another one of José Henrique Bortoluci's Generation Democracy pieces is up now on the amazing @equatormag.bsky.social . Essential reading on the fight to save the Amazon: www.equator.org/articles/des...

My conversation with the great @vicenteluismora.bsky.social is up on @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social! We talk about the challenges of translating experimental literature, spanish golden age poetry and the difference between archaeological and historical novels; pghrev.com/a-writer-tal...

Pleased to have mine and Daniel Hahn's translation of Michel Nieva's incredible essay collection Technology and Barbarism in this month's @wwborders.bsky.social watchlist: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

A truly great composer and artist - one who redefined composition and left behind a body of work of extraordinary profundity and beauty. She changed how people listen and, I genuinely believe, people’s entire sensory relationship to life. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Slightly regretting impulse deleting my previous bluesky with like 200 followers. Got rid of Facebook instead!