We can’t have clean air, but we can read about it

ALTA49 will feature a panel on translation of children's literature moderated by @jasmine-hongyu.bsky.social and including Riya Parikh, @nanettemcg.bsky.social, Lena Traer, and @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social! 📚 #kidlit #worldkidlit #translation #xl8 #ALTA49

Y'all, @khoreo.bsky.social is an incredible magazine, and it's basically 1k away from funding. Show up for immigrant voices in SFF. Get awesome stories. Everybody wins!

What makes a place home? In Evgenia Nekrasova’s short story "Her North," translated by @marsnova.bsky.social, a woman whose mother migrated to the Russian Arctic refuses to leave, even as war brings about new questions of identity and belonging. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

I have a new translation out today in @thedialmag.bsky.social Her North is a meditation on belonging that doubles as a love letter to eternal winter. Original story by Evgenia Nekrasova. I hope you give it a read 🦌❄️ www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

Hi, fund khōréō or so help me www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

My favourite thing about Haaland is that he spent 1.3 million ​Norwegian kroner of his football money on a rare 1594 edition of Viking chronicles - a record book sale for Norway - and then donated it to his regional library. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ha...

All current HMML catalogers and curators contributed to a new exhibition, “Lost & Found in Translation." Co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Carnell and Rylie Owen, the exhibition explores the challenges of translation and the connections it fosters. View in-person and online: hmml.org/programs/exhibitions.

Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

On Tuesday, queer Houstonians mourned Persia Conway, a trans woman found dead last week. After grief, there was rage. Rage at Houston PD. Rage at rumors that Persia was someone she wasn't. But most of all, rage over another trans woman of color taken too soon: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Philly can spring.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

We spoke with @antonhur.com about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s ‘Capitalists Must Starve’, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We loved our conversation with Anton, whose work we have admired for years! Give this one a read. 📚 www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...

Spring in Philadelphia.

Look how Norway is fighting back at screens. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Honored and humbled to be among the 2026 O. Henry Prize Winners! lithub.com/announcing-t...

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is

“In a land where intellectual property is often as unprotected as the bodies in the streets, Fernanda and I built a bridge of shadows.” Miaad Banki writes about his experience translating Fernanda Trías’s NO SOÑARÁS FLORES during the Tehran blackout. At Public Books:

This is a really beautiful story that goes places I did not expect when I first assigned it.

"What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home ..." Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis) @silver-press.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/18/a...

Commentary: AI translation of literature should be questioned because literary translation requires human interpretation and cultural understanding that machines cannot provide.

Issue 5.4 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A wintry, gothic issue underpinned by disasters and dark transformations. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by Mary Ainza 🧡

‼️ It's your last chance! Today is the ✨final day✨ to submit to ALTA's 2026 book awards and Travel Fellowships. Find all the guidelines and submit here by the end of the day today! alta.submittable.com/submit/

Literary translator pals: a new competition, in honour of the late, great David Bellos. For unpublished samples. More details here: janklowandnesbit.co.uk/prize #xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐

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@sevenstories.bsky.social is showing up in opposition to the war in Iran. They have put together a reading list and even are releasing Chris Hedges "A Genocide Foretold" for free. Check out the reading list. It is comprehensive. www.sevenstories.com/blogs/409-ha...

Queer Korean author and translator @antonhur.com on The Banh Mi Chronicles Podcast about his debut fiction, Toward Eternity, and what he has learned as an author. We chatted about translation in literature, AI’s effects on writers, social issues, Mariah Carey, and more. Follow the podcast!

It was a joy to spotlight the Philly literary translation scene with my brilliant friends📚🖤🦅

It was a joy to spotlight the Philly literary translation scene with my brilliant friends📚🖤🦅

"The framing of LLMs as preserving the lives of those we have lost distracts from the lost livelihoods, and worsened material conditions, of a generation of writers on whose work the technology of LLM feeds." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/literature-is-not-a-vibe-on-chatgpt-and-the-humanities/

'First lines of books always feel like life and death for a translation. I must have stared and stared at this line for, cumulatively, hours.' Fascinating to read @jencalleja.bsky.social reflect on translating four lines of 'Favorita' by Michelle Steinbeck, for @faberbooks.bsky.social.

#Belarus: We condemn the labelling of @penbelarus.bsky.social digital platform as ‘extremist materials’ and reiterate our full solidarity with colleagues in their quest to promote and protect Belarusian culture, language, and identity. penbelarus.org/en/

Feeling like the world's luckiest translator to be working with Ia again, and to be read so generously by the judges, who really get the book: "Breathtakingly original, profound but with a delicious dose of irreverence" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Out in UK in mid-March, US this summer!

Presenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

Just found out that Nikolai, the frontman of Shortparis, has died at 39. Seems like they never quite broke through outside of Russia (and struggled with circumstances inside it) but goddamn Shortparis should have been the biggest band on the planet. Coolest frontman ever. What a loss. RIP

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

BODY DOUBLE is on LitHub's most anticipated list! "Okay Persona… okay Ingmar Bergman… okay Scandinavian literature about lesbians who start turning into each other…. a strange, twisty story about obsession and identity and how easy it can be to lose yourself completely" lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

“There are almost certainly stories we’re missing out on by only reading English-language fiction… The more translated fiction we read, the more our view of the world expands.”

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

My sanity these days hinges upon being around a creature who is delighted by everything

"This is the Texas that greeted Ramos. This is the Friendship State. This is the fiercely independent bastion of civil liberties. Overrun by jackbooted federal agents who view themselves above the law." www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

I have for you a snow day read❄️ www.washingtonsquarereview.com/evgenia-nekr...

First snow for baby Rodeo❄️

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