As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...

👀🖤📚excited to read this one!

"Emerging literary translators often come up and tell me how much they want to be like me. They mean well, and more power to them, but I do find myself thinking: Are you sure about that?" I wrote an article about burnout for KLN:

📢 Translators, you too can join the @alcs.co.uk and get paid for having your books checked out of the library. A lifetime membership costs just £36. They take it out of your first payment, so you don’t pay a penny up front. Since I joined in 2020, I have received £515.45! What are you waiting for?

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Who else will join me in making this happen?

"Words DO things. And naming is what gods do with language ..." @alinaetc.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Wrote a photo essay for @puncturedlines.bsky.social about nostalgia, Soviet-era children’s books, speculative fiction, and a recent trip to the country of Georgia. Come for the picture of baby-me talking into a mall phone. Stay for Svetlana Boym 💗 ➡️ puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/

A read worth your time⏳

“Each act of translation performs a kind of alchemy on the translator, changing her way of seeing and thinking, opening new horizons...” 2025 ALTA Awards Judge Elizabeth Lowe shares her perspective on translation and the importance of it in troubling times at PELTA:

The audio version of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova is finally live! This story was translated by Marianna Suleymanova & edited by Kanika Agrawal. The audio was narrated by Georgia Mckenzie & produced by Grayson Norman. Listen to the full audio story or read it here: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

HELL YEAH translation is the juice English literature desperately needs

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

After a long day at the Moscow circus, a dark-skinned Russian woman is accused of kidnapping her children—then gets revenge on her accusers. Read “Mordovian Cross” by Evgenia Nekrasova, translated by our 2024 Momentum Grant winner @marsnova.bsky.social : wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

The Russian disregard for nuclear safety is jaw-dropping. Serhii Plokhy's account of their invasion of the Chernobyl plant in 2022 is a riveting read. We are all deeply indebted to the sacrifices of level-headed Ukrainians.

спасибо большое моему другу максу, что в прошлом году дал мне почитать книгу "кадавры" алексея поляринова. я до сих пор не могу точно сказать какие эмоции я испытала после её прочтения: это был и шок и восторг, и ужас одновременно, ведь не так страшны мистические кадавры, как человеческая жестокость

Congratulations to Alexander Podrabinek and translator @mbs51.bsky.social on the release of BETWEEN PRISON AND FREEDOM. This #Memoir captures the spirit of the dissident movement and the #Solidarity that kept the resistance moving forward. #Soviet #Russia Order today at: https://bit.ly/3TnZexL#Memoir

This is tonight - bring your questions and your feelings!

pra quem não conhecia nosso querido labubu soviético: temos os quatro curtas originais legendados em português no blog!

Greetings from Kyiv, where I am having a warcoffee in a gorgeous bookstore. Kyiv could easily be nominated as the capital of the best bookstores.

My translation of Baba Yaga’s origin story set in modernity is finally live! Huge thanks to Georgia Mckenzie for yielding her voice to this tale & to the entire @khoreo.bsky.social team for featuring our work. And most of all, to Evgenia Nekrasova, for trusting me with her words and stories🖤📚

A dark-skinned Russian woman accused of kidnapping her children gets a singular revenge in this story from Marianna Suleymanova’s 2024 Momentum Award–winning translation of Evgenia Nekrasova’s collection She-Bear. Read “Mordavian Cross”:

Deeply grateful to @sawadhussain.bsky.social for selecting my translation for the Momentum Grant and to the team at @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing Mordovian Cross, a tale of racial profiling, revenge, and embroidery. The first story I ever chose to bring into English has found a perfect home🥲

A few translators I always read, as much for their skill as for the novels/authors they choose to translate. Alex Zucker tops that list and his latest, PLAYING WOLF, by Czech author Zuzana Říhová, fits squarely in one of my favorite genres: literary fiction enhanced by horror tropes.

Honored to be selected & in cohort with these brilliant translators! See you in Tucson🖤📚

Deeply grateful to @sawadhussain.bsky.social for selecting my translation for the Momentum Grant and to the team at @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing Mordovian Cross, a tale of racial profiling, revenge, and embroidery. The first story I ever chose to bring into English has found a perfect home🥲

ICYMI, for @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about why you’ll never read another author like Lalla Romano. With some reflections on what it meant for me to translate a book as devastating & before-its-time as In Farthest Seas. @pushkinpress.com @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social lithub.com/lalla-romano...

🌟 Sun, Sept 21, 2 PM @bkbookfest.bsky.social: Zuzana Říhová talks about PLAYING WOLF, my translation of her squirm-inducing village novel for @catapultbooks.bsky.social, with a trio of excellent interlocutors: Amanda Lee Koe, Olive Senior and Elina Alter! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/myth-f...

We’re thrilled to announce the winning titles for the inaugural round of #PENPresents x International Booker Prize, an edition of the English PEN award for sample translations, launched with the @thebookerprizes.com to support translators from the Global Majority. www.englishpen.org/posts/news/i...

This this thiiiiiiiis. Editors are not altruistic souls who are doing your pathetic self a favor. You are two entities who are each bringing something of worth to the table. Remember both halves of that. (And if you don't feel like an editor is bringing something worthwhile, DON'T WORK WITH THEM.)

“We are incredibly honoured to stand in solidarity with Palestine and be part of this crucial event,” Portishead write. “The genocide must stop.” www.stereogum.com/2321594/pre-...

My translation of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

My translation of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

Thrilled to have this out in audio, deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social 🖤📚

“She’d always had a different war, much more complex, but her own chosen one.”

Thrilled to have this out in audio, deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social 🖤📚

An excerpt from my new novel, Alice Sees Ghosts in @scroll.in.web.brid.gy ! scroll.in/article/1085...

This suggests that "AI" is as much a cultural shift as it is a technological one—the hype-shrouded AI boom has given managers encouragement and cover to break previous norms and standards, even if it means a loss in quality. As the boom appears to give way to a bust, that may be all the clearer.

Many translators fear and lament what will be lost as their work gets automated. Many were never in it for the money, but for love of the work—of translating games, prose and art. They worry AI-generated output stands to flatten and collapse culture itself, our very ability to understand each other.

What's a dissident to do? Hoping @mbs51.bsky.social can tell me Sept 11 at Elliott Bay, discussing her translation of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek's prison diary. #seattlebookevents #booktok #literatureintranslation elliottbaybook.com/events/47732

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

Apropos of absolutely nothing, but if a book's translation quality left a positive impression on you, PLEASE post about it! Those involved in its creation (publishers, translators, editors) see it, and we appreciate being told when something was done well or it landed the right way with readers ☺️

🥳🥳🥳 Plus, Nov 5 at Sky Bar: Come drink and dish with the Translators Organizing Committee, a division of the @nwu.org and the United States’ first ever literary translators’ union! Open to members, prospective members, and the solidarity-inclined. literarytranslators.org/event/nwupre...

✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48 ✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in ✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons ✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More *better working conditions 4 literary translators*

Tove Jansson's birthday is tomorrow 🎉🥳 & @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is celebrating with a sale on her books! www.nyrb.com/collections/...