My Asymptote interview was the second-most widely read article in Asymptote in 2025 🙇🏻‍♂️💜✨

🌘 antidote for midwinter gloom: put the first Track Changes of 2026 on your calendar, ft. Devin Kelly (NYC) & Grady Chambers (Philly). join us for a reading, listening, & convo series where writers chat about their favorite records! 🎟️ advance tickets & info: jan-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com

Cormac McCarthy line sticking with me this morning, from The Passenger: “Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”

Not sure about the "architects of AI" being the TIME person of the year, but Indie booksellers, librarians, & library workers are def our winners. They continue to fight book bans and support their communities by creating safe spaces, mutual aid drives, and opportunities for curiosity and escape 🩵

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction. Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸

Congratulations to Ia Genberg and our contributor Kira Josefsson. You can read more of Josefsson's work on our website here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Philly! This is in exactly one week. We’ll have spooky stories & free hot dogs. Come hang out!🪆🐻

Grateful for the opportunity to read at @littranslate.bsky.social conference today, in illustrious company🖤📚

This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...

In today's Meduza newsletter, I offer you a tease of an episode in the new season of Russia Underground, an excellent podcast from @howardamos.bsky.social and Nina Berezner. meduza.io/en/brief/202...

A wonderful talk coming up!

⛵️ VAIM by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls, publishes today ⛵️ Jon Fosse’s first novel since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman. ⛵️ fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/vaim/

Philly! I am excited to bring Evgenia Nekrasova to our fair city to talk about folklore in contemporary Russian literature. I’ll be reading some of my translations of her magically pessimist tales as well. Please come, dress on theme if you like, bring friends & nemeses🖤📚🐻

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

You can now listen to the audio version of my translation at kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be... As read by me🐻

💛 L2 translators continue to remind the world that the concept of a mother tongue is, in fact, not so straightforward in large parts of the world, and that many of us translate into a language that is not our first!

ICYMI🐻🖤

Still a few spots left 🙂📚

Happy International Translation Day! And if your celebration includes reading some of my translations, I wouldn’t be mad📚🖤

🎉 Happy pub day to PLAYING WOLF! @catapultbooks.bsky.social To celebrate, here is a fun clip of Zuzana Říhová and me at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Saturday night. 🙌 Shoutout to Pierce Alquist. L-o-v-e-d her suggestion that we read a section synchronously! www.youtube.com/live/AcQkRXZ...

Boosting one of my favorite pieces, out this week from @kenyonreview.bsky.social , on the life of a human cub who knows more about literature than people. I hope you find some time to spend with this piece, written by Evgenia Nekrasova and inspired by an old folk tale from Perm Krai.🐻📚🖤

“Can you change the minds of pro-Russian conspiracy theorists? Czech director Robin Kvapil tried, driving three of them to Ukraine and filming the outcome.” This is really worth a read. www.dw.com/en/czech-fil...

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🥲