The Matrix predicts what happens to humans after years of AI: we get turned into 🪫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47M...

Thanks Jacqui for your review! You made my day!

Just published a new substack despite my, erm, brain fog…

Cate Blanchett on a bike, 2004 by US photographer Annie Leibovitz #womensart

Such a lovely review of my latest translation in The Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2026/03/book... Buy it from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social or bookstores near you!

If your poem doesn’t belong on a billboard but a toilet door in a dive bar, send it. If it sounds better screamed into a mic than whispered at brunch, send it. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

Translator from German? Here are the application details of this year’s online summer school based at Oxford University. Dm me if you have any questions!

berlin so: good luck motherfuckers

Samma!

‘Once this board is formed, we can do pretty much anything we want.’

Just set up my Substack properly, The Thought Vault. Take a look: lucyjoneswriting.substack.com

I've contacted our school to ask why they are still on X.

Thank you for asking, and NO and we're far from done, and anything Bari Weiss decides to platform is probably failing women.

I don't matter. I never did, much. I don't now. I don't matter, and I want out. You put a lot of ice in this.

It's your birthday, Duane.

A daughter’s view of John Cheever and his fiction

"It is probably around here that you expect the optimistic final point of the essay. The argument that Europe has finally learned its lesson and will turn it all around. Unfortunately, I see no indications for such a turn." This is going to be a dark essay, sorry.

This is still my favourite article against slop machines. It's informative AND hilarious. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

🇭🇺💥Thousands marched to Viktor Orbán’s office in Budapest on Saturday, led by opposition leader Péter Magyar, who called on the PM to resign over multiple child abuse scandals. Protesters carried toys and torches under the banner “Protect the children!”. 🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.

This is on the front page of newspapers around the world. In the US, you'll struggle to find anyone who observes what is happening.

Hooray! Well done Christophe!!! 🤩

'Answerlands is a must-read for anyone desperate for a break from the mundane.' Harry Spiers for the Indiependent, on Joseph Minden's Answerlands Read the full review: www.indiependent.co.uk/poetry-revie... Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Answerlands: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017517...

I’m excited to announce that I’m giving a literary translation workshop Berlin for 5 weeks starting January 8. Where: Métis bookshop, Prenzlauer Berg. Cost: €210 with reduced price options. DM me for details or send a mail to [email protected] to sign up! @thereaderberlin.bsky.social

Every £3 counts: List your press's calls and directly support our community-driven #BrokenSpineAward Fundraiser. Help us reach our £5000 poetry prize goal!

SMALLTOWNNOVELLA by Ronald Schernikau was published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social in November (my English translation of a cult German coming out story). Read a review here: thebaffler.com/latest/innoc...

The best book yet - maybe - from a Nobel laureate; a novel where PG Wodehouse makes a guest appearance; a book where Islamic State fighters are in need of Viagra; and two Scandinavian septologies, neither of which is by Jon Fosse. Me on five of the best works of translated fiction this year:

ALSO ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #28 — ft. @eoghancarrick.bsky.social @robrubsam.bsky.social Bothayna Al-Essa, @matthewkinlin.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @evawyles.bsky.social + much, much more — goes out Friday ... sign up here: minorlits.substack.com

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Read the little bit at the end of this Charlie Kaufmann article about art or poetry breaking you open. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Researchers at Oxford University are recruiting caregivers of LGBT+ youth for a study on stigma & family relationships. It is an online survey that takes 20-30 minutes, and all answers are anonymised. Please visit : psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #TransResearch #LGBTQResearch

Dutch parliament votes to criminalize gay conversion therapy

Such a lovely book. Really. Read it. It will stay with you x

Announcing the 2025–27 Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows: On behalf of the Center for the Art of Translation’s education program, please join us in welcoming our 2025–27 Teaching Fellows Saam, Jean Carla Rodea, Jo-el Molina, Jesus Manuel Morales, & Caroline Woods-Mejía!

“Alle freuen sich”, vor allem ich! What a treat to be talking next week to A.L. Kennedy for the book premiere of her latest short story collection! Come and join us— the stories are wry, devastating, full of twists and maverick characters. Tickets: Literaturhaus Berlin, Venue: Ballhaus Prinzenallee

Interesting post on the different ways literary translators earn a living. The moniker ‘tapas career’ sounds delicious and like there’s an array of nice tidbits to choose from. In reality it feels more like juggling any number of balls.

Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.

Lovely interview with Alex Lawther about acting in Leonard and Hungry Paul. I laughed at this. "I got to meet the amazing, slightly eccentric Ronan Hession. He’s his own person which is so rare these days. He’s a full-time civil servant so I felt quite silly and inadequate in his presence."

Bücher,Musik und Filme sind neben den Freundschaften, die mir geschenkt wurden, was mich daran erinnert, dass allein durch den, den Versuch, verstanden zu werden, die Welt ein etwas besserer Ort wird und immer wieder werden kann. Diesen Film hier lege ich euch ans Herz: youtu.be/f8LZGpF3oNE?...

Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.

Heute erscheint das Buch "Neue Mauern" von @bodoramelow.bsky.social und mir im Beck-Verlag. Der stern hat mit uns darüber gesprochen @miriamhollstein.bsky.social @mdebes.bsky.social

And to add, it has happened at lightning speed. Talented colleagues who specialize in their field have been made jobless within the past two years. Language has been handed over to big tech.

#KeinVergessen: Vor 33 Jahren, zwischen dem 22. und 26. August 1992, ereigneten sich die tagelang anhaltenden rassistischen Pogrome in #Rostock-Lichtenhagen. Es handelte sich um die massivsten rassistischen Ausschreitungen in Deutschland nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. #KeinVergessen 1/8

‚Fleißig‘ and ‚früh aufstehen‘ are two of the most overused words I‘ve heard in 25 years of living in Germany. Yet the illusion of the hard worker here ist just that. In England people have fewer rights and longer hours and nobody gives a shit about them.

I finally watched the whole of Twin Peaks and had some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/lucyjone...