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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

Incredible things are happening in Berlin apparently. The only person I like hearing German news from is my Turkish friend @berrak.bsky.social, which is a little bit of a full circle moment back to my childhood for me

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.

Have you been to the Pritzker Military Museum?

#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...

I'm coming at this hard because I think it's imperative that we push back on insidious AI that arts orgs and festivals are increasingly trying to sneak onto the field and legitimize their inclusion. This is one of TWO panels the AI is involved in, the other a round table with three authors.

For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book

"Die einzige queere Figur, die ich kannte." Kais Harrabi schreibt in seinem Essay über das Problem mit Bully Herbig, über Mobbing, Queerness und ‚Der Schuh des Manitu‘. Hier kann man es lesen: www.54books.de/das-problem-...

«This is not journalism in the service of truth – it is journalism in the service of violence.» @hahauenstein.bsky.social on point about the German media‘s role enabling Israel‘s ongoing extermination of Palestinians in Gaza. 👇🏼give it a read

In this essay from the new collection THE HIDDEN ISLAND (tr. Lily Meyer, Ig publishing) Abraham Jiménez Enoa uses Cuba’s illegal lottery system as a foundation to explore social history, sketch a collection of characters, and more. Read “Luck’s Children”: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Just posted a short piece about my weird relationship with gyms on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/lucyjone...

1 space left for our FREE Horror Writers' Day at Chorlton Library! 🎟️🔥 We still have places available (including bursaries) for the full short story course lead by @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social! Learn the tricky art of terror & get published in a Comma eBook 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-sho...

The Broken Spine isn’t just a press. It’s a challenge. And on August 1, I want your boldest response. Submissions open Aug 1–31. 👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI 👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social

Hanna S. war gefeierte Kunstsstudentin in Nürnberg, sollte bald einen Bundespreis bekommen. Nun aber sitzt sie wegen versuchten Mordes vor Gericht, es droht jahrelange Haft: Sie soll Neonazis in #Budapest angegriffen haben. Der GBA hängt den Fall hoch. Die Beweise aber: vage. taz.de/Angriffe-in-...

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

It is now safe to admit the Palestinians are starving. Even the Free Press is begrudgingly admitting it. You won't lose your job or your college diploma. You're safe now, because in a lot of ways it's already too late

„Der Berliner Senat rechnet bis zum Ende des Jahrzehnts mit einer Steigerung der Wohnungslosen-Zahl um knapp 60 Prozent - auf mehr als 85.600 Personen.“ Gegen die hohen Mieten unternehmen sie trotzdem nichts, sondern schütten den Wohnungsunternehmen Steuergelder hinterher.

A quick and easy way to donate money to Gaza -- North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions chuffed.org/project/help...

“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”

I’ve tried hard to describe what it was like to lose a child in childbirth: Poppy Noor’s article gets very close to what I felt and it resonates with me deeply. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I have a new piece up at The Metropolitan Review about a newly-translated biography of Curzio Malaparte, where I also revisited some of my earlier thoughts on said writer. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-wander...

Selbst der Bundeskanzler sagt inzwischen, Israels Vorgehen in Gaza sei inakzeptabel. Warum sich der deutsche Israelkurs trotzdem nicht ändert.

die cdu wird mit der afd koalieren und sagen "das sei ja der Wählerwille". #Spahn und #Dobrindt bereiten dies längst vor. Faschismus wird nicht deshalb ok, nur weil ihn 25% wählen. es ist schon fast zu spät.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

Ich vermute, dass das noch nicht bei allen angekommen ist, die Windows benutzen: Wenn Eure Rechner nicht mehr neu sind, zwingt Euch Microsoft alle, im Herbst neue zu kaufen. Oder Ihr wechselt zu Linux: Das ist billiger und ökologischer, als wenn Millionen neuer Geräte gekauft werden.

"Woman, Mapped will explore the journey of becoming a woman: the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape. We are seeking work that speaks honestly to what it means to live as a woman — politically, bodily, emotionally — and to be seen on our own terms" open.substack.com/pub/flyonthe...

Solidarity again with @chrishinchliff.bsky.social who - after proposing reforms to the Planning Bill - got suspended and called pathetic names by party insiders who think they’re Malcolm Tucker Then the govt amended its Bill along the lines Chris had proposed! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Join us for our two-day open cultural data #hackathon "culture.explore(data)" @stabiberlin.bsky.social on 7&8 October 2025. Create digital projects based on #opendata and curated datasets of the @kulturspk.bsky.social and the Libraries & Museums at the @ox.ac.uk 👉 lab.sbb.berlin/culture-expl...

Wherever you are in the UK, find a way to get out with your pots and pans. Let's hope we can bang them loudly as we express our outrage over the horrific starvation which we must fight anyway we can.

Ein Mann bekommt seit Jahren rassistische 🤬Hassbotschaften in den Briefkasten gesteckt. Polizei und Vermieter sind machtlos – oder gleichgültig? Lest den ganzen Text ohne Paywall 👉https://taz.de/Rassismus-im-Mietshaus/!6100957/

I was lucky enough to share my Hawthornden fellowship with Caroline Smith whose poetry moved me deeply. Check out her new publication 👇 She is also the best person to ever have around in a crisis as we learned !

We’re bringing back Cut to the Bone 24.08.25 at 14.00 BST Just 5 early bird tickets at £15 until 31 July 100% of poets said they would recommend 🔗 shorturl.at/iCc7a #CutToTheBone #PoetryEditing #Workshop @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Read more about our dearest Shaimaa. 💚 One of the most active and thoughtful participants in our Gaza Literary Translation Workshop series (supported by Palestine Writes), a long-time contributor to ArabLit (starting with our SONG issue), poet, translator, brilliant person.

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As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks. Please share and support if you’re able :) www.bookbanks.co.uk