Cada vez que veo CUALQUIER COSA relacionada con la IA me acuerdo de aquello que Tabarovsky tomó de Virilio: «Inventar un objeto técnico es inaugurar un accidente específico: inventar el barco es inventar el naufragio; inventar el tren es inventar el accidente ferroviario por descarrilamiento.»

Under Assad, thousands of Syrian lives were destroyed through arbitrary detention. When the regime fell in 2024, many hoped the prison system would improve. After visiting more than 70 prisons, and being detained himself, Amer Matar reports that little has changed: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

This week @equatormag.bsky.social we are publishing a remarkable memoir by the Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Srour – who was jailed in 1993 and released last year. After October 7, Israeli prisons became "torture camps", as B'Tselem put it. This is what it was like: www.equator.org/articles/why...

“I think of the poet JH Prynne—who died last month at the age of 89—every time I mow my lawn,” writes Jeremy Noel-Tod

For the latest AUFLAUF I read a new-and-old collection by Ghassan Zaqtan (trans. Robin Moger), one of Palestine's great poets >> theauflauf.substack.com/p/april-book...

Recent arrivals: Seagull Books, isolarii, @univnebpress.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social

And rounding things out in Fiction, a rollicking short story by the Egyptian novelist Yasser Abdellatif, translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger. “I’ve left everything in Cairo, Mother. I want to marry Cousin Amal.” Things get wilder from there. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/fic...

Very sorry to hear that the poet J.H. Prynne has died, at the age of 89. Here, from 10 years ago, is my attempt to describe the man and the work

Golan Haji, translated by @robinmoger.bsky.social: “The next morning, after we saluted the flag and chanted party slogans on the basketball court, the school principal thrashed his cane to splinters over my bloodied, outstretched palms.” www.equator.org/articles/ash...

In 1960, 283 children died when a theater in northern Syria went up in flames. Kurdish poet Golan Haji recalls the disaster: “Even though it happened many years before I was born, consigned to police files marked ‘no perpetrator’, we all knew of the fire.” www.equator.org/articles/ash...

An interview with the incomparable Jen Calleja

this reminds me I should also mention @twolinespress.bsky.social in my list of great translation houses. if you only read Two Lines publications for a year you'd emerge having expanded your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previously have guessed at

this includes translations, by the way

TODAY is Pub Day for Batool Abu Akleen's 48KG, tr. various, and the poetry pamphlet she edited & translated for @mptmagazine.bsky.social, SEA SHELLS. Order 48Kg from Tenement Press: tenementpress.com/Batool-Abu-A... And read SEA SHELLS free online: modernpoetryintranslation.com/sea-shells-a...

*Indebted*: a set of texts by and about Dhul Rumma and a poem by Golan Haji, dedicated to Golan, in the Debt-themed Monsoon edition of the great Almost Island www.almostisland.com/monsoon-2025...

And our ridiculous but informative show is LIVE on Twitch for our weekly, uh, live recording! It's a Reading Rangers night, and we're talking about Mohamed Kheir's Sleep Phase (trans. Robin Moger) via @twolinespress.bsky.social. Join us! twitch.tv/alphabetst...

Submissions are open! We are looking for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico collection. Find out more here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

فصل من رواية نائل الجديدة...

US edition of Iman's Motherhood & It's Ghosts out this month

An extract from Mohamed's novel Sleep Phase, out next month from the great @twolinespress.bsky.social

Al ahly thikr jamaah Cape Town youtu.be/ONV-kLUPy2Y?...

كأنَّ ديار الحي بالزُّرقِ خِلقةٌ / من الأرض أو مكتوبةٌ بمِدادِ ذو الرمة

Lovely news. The Republic of Consciousness Prize is sending subscribers copies of A Horse at the Door (Tenement Press), my translations of selected poems by Wadih Saadeh, as its Book of the Month for March. www.instagram.com/p/DHYmyb5Ixj...

“Perhaps to write and read is to flow into our own chronic genre. And each fragment is a fugitive rebirth from the last.”: A Correspondence with Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng — Alex Tan minorliteratures.com/2025/03/18/p...

Alex Tan on Iman Mersal's Traces of Enayat www.full-stop.net/2025/02/13/f...

"The enamoured sees the face of the beloved in all things, blind to all else, unable even to see them. God’s absence is what fills creation; His absence is the only possible way in which He may be present in a world that brims with injustice." – Golan Haji, tr. @robinmoger.bsky.social

Thanks to Alex Tan for this beautifully composed review of A Horse at the Door that dobles as a fantastic primer for the poetry of Wadih Saadeh themarkaz.org/no-place-to-...

We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Congratulations to all of the finalists.

“None of this ever happened to Enayat. Come. Tonight we celebrate her memory." @andotherstories.bsky.social @robinmoger.bsky.social

Haytham El Wardany's beautiful essay on writing and its purposes, [To the dead/To those yet unborn], is now up at Tenement Press's Rehearsals page: tenementpress.com/To-the-Dead

Congratulations, Iman Mersal and Robin Moger! TRACES OF ENAYAT is longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Barrios Book in Translation Prize 💐💐💐 www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/19/2...

Out now from Tenement Press, A Horse at the Door, a selection of poems by Wadih Saadeh, available direct from Tenement, or from the Asterism bookstore: tenementpress.com/Wadih-Saadeh asterismbooks.com/product/a-horse-at-the-door-a-chronology-of-poems-wadih-saadeh

‏نص جميل كتبه الأخ الحبيب جولان حاجي بمناسبة صدور مجموعتي المترجمة لقصائد وديع سعادة rommanmag.com/archives/343...

"Una persona si sabe leer y escribir no puede cantar Flamenco tampoco, porque ya pierde el saber pronunciar." - Manuel Agujetas "Yo le dije a mi cartero que me enseñara escribir [...] como un padre misionero" - Paco Toronjo youtu.be/mhudS1CgsaQ?...

نائل الجميل youtu.be/y0TAceJEt3U?...

"Declaración de principios: En principio yo no tengo nada contra la claridad y la amenidad. Luego, ya veremos." Roberto Bolaño, Los mitos de Cthulhu

Congratulations to @robinmoger.bsky.social, whose translation of Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal has been shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation ✨

{أثرٌ بعد عينٍ} جولان حاجي books.openedition.org/ifpo/21692?f...

“There is something priming itself in these shadows” Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014 – 2020 by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Robin Moger roughghosts.com/2024/07/13/t...

the idea of us, Mohab Nasr, tr. Robin Moger