The new episode of the best Italian literary podcast Not My Cup of Read is dedicated to Antonio Lobo Antunes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwF...

EYE : THE ECSTATIC YOLK Harold Rogers reviews The Beginnings by Antonio Moresco. haroldrogers.substack.com/p/eye-the-ec...

Misteri de Montserrat by Gaudí

Went hiking

Caravaggio’s St. Jerome at Montserrat

Casa Comalat designed by Salvador Valeri i Pupurull

Palau del Baró de Quadras designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch

Surreal to finally see this with my own eyes

Gaudí’s house

A mysterious labyrinth in an optical shop on Rambla de Catalunya. This might have something to do with the secret societies described by Miquel de Palol in his novels.

Met an old friend

The house where Dalí was born

Surrealism is Dalí

Francisco Mateos

What are they eating?

Cool devils here

Realistic representation of an angel

“What are you up to, guys?” “Not much. Sawing people, boiling people, piercing people, driving nails into people’s heads.”

So there is the new cool series Penguin International Writers, which is going to publish Cărtărescu's Theodoros and the rest of his Blinding trilogy in the UK. Awesome initiative, if you ask me. www.penguin.co.uk/series/PENIN...

God or rather Devilspeed!

New Moresco novel in May: Il finimondo “Among the figures that populate the city of the dead, an incredible non-place, appear Maradona, Freud, Dante, Pinocchio and, in a register with disturbing tones, actors of the present such as Trump and Musk” www.nutrimenti.net/libro/narrat...

The review is illustrated by the incredible fresco of the Last Judgement at the Horezu Monastery in Romania

Mircea Cartarescu schreef een uitzonderlijke roman van de grote greep www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

1.35 hour meeting with Cărtărescu and his translator into Dutch Jan Willem Bos moderated by my Belgian friend Remo Verdickt. In English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuF_...

April 6! Join us for a conversation between @maxlawton.bsky.social & Sean Thor Conroe about the life and work of Italian author Antonio Moresco—In-person at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and livestreamed on Zoom. If you want to join us online, register here: buff.ly/1OxJErP

Monday movie

Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st. details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/submit

Stefano D'Arrigo, Horcynus Orca (1975) Casa della Cultura Via Borgogna 3 Milano www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJL-...

1-hour review of Antonio Moresco's The Beginnings (tr. Max Lawton, ed. Francesco Pacifico) from Gravity's Random m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z18e...

RIP Alexander Kluge

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church bbc.com/news/article...

The Translator’s Voice — Max Lawton on Translating Antonio Moresco’s “The Beginnings” chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/25/m...

Finishing the 3rd season today

Deep Vellum will publish Mikhail Shishkin’s THE TAKING OF IZMAIL in translation by Max Lawton in summer 2028. We are absolutely honored to work with this giant of Russian literature. Full press release here: www.deepvellum.org/news/deal-an...

So I checked my 2013 review of Telluria on Pangram

This novel theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/t...

Deal Announcement: Deep Vellum to Publish Mikhail Shishkin's The Taking of Izmail in Summer 2028 www.deepvellum.org/news/deal-an...

The German mathematician Gerd Faltings is the winner of this year's Abel Prize, an honor that is regarded as mathematics’ version of the Nobel Prize. He proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Friday movie

Summa Kaòtica. Presentació. www.youtube.com/watch?v=56up...

The Temptation of Saint Jerome by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

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Scrivere da teppista. Intervista ad Antonio Moresco www.liminarivista.it/comma-22/scr...

Los ensacados by Francisco Goya

i wrote up some reflections on Schattenfroh sigmaportfolio.substack.com/p/in-the-cha...

Tradurre mondi: Max Lawton e Francesco Pacifico sulla traduzione dei Giochi dell’Eternità www.labalenabianca.com/2026/03/09/t...

It's official: Not My Cup Of Read is my favourite Italian podcast. They had episodes about Gravity's Rainbow and Horcynus Orca, and now — a 2-hour discussion of José Donoso's dark masterpiece The Obscene Bird of Night. If you understand Italian, follow them! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM3C...

Ventura Ametller: El plaer de jugar amb la llengua www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zdV...

The first Spanish-language review of Schattenfroh. www.instagram.com/reel/DVO5LXC...