Slava Faybysh
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Literary Translator
Snack, ca. 2026.
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about 2 months ago
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My mom just gave me something to take home in this thing from Kyiv, Soviet era.
about 2 months ago
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The Onion is no longer funny. And the issue is not “you can’t tell the difference b/w truth and an Onion headline.” That’s an excuse. The issue is them. They’re not funny. I think the new crop of comedians has inherited a humor that’s not natural to them.
about 2 months ago
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Early blood libel reminded me of modern day progressives. Simon of Trent is the child that Jews were falsely accused of killing, resulting in torture and killing of the town’s Jews.
about 2 months ago
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Full article is paywalled, but here’s some highlights from “The Day the Music Died” Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic June 2025.
about 2 months ago
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AGNI
8 months ago
"You see, the thing about immigrating as an infant is that your parents’ language continues to grow inside you, but its growth is stunted." 🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game" by Slava Faybysh
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On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game
I was almost two, and it was altogether a more innocent time, when my family immigrated from Kyiv to Chicago. Reagan was the president-elect, and Disco Demolition Night in Comiskey Park only a few…
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You’re not against fascism if you’re an obsessed Jew hater. Jew hate = fascism.
9 months ago
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X-R-A-Y Literary Press
10 months ago
we have a teriffic 275 word story by Pablo Baler !! 'Pearl Hunter' is about an old man, dentures, & having a dream about diving for pearls. love how reality & dream are mixed together in this one. translated from spanish by Slava Faybysh
xraylitmag.com/pearl-hunter...
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PEARL HUNTER by Pablo Baler, translated from Spanish by Slava Faybysh
Before getting into bed, Gaspar Santos plopped his dentures into a glass of water. He adjusted himself into a comfortable position between the sheets, sinking into the softened mattress, and eased gen...
https://xraylitmag.com/pearl-hunter-by-pablo-baler-translated-from-spanish-by-slava-faybysh/fiction/
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
almost 2 years ago
It goes deeper than that even. How could Black folks, queer folks, women have made themselves free on their own? It’s not possible according to the white supremacist pov. Eric Ward, expert on white nationalism, articulates it— someone else must be behind the scenes engineering it all —>
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Skin in the Game
Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism. First, it allows us to identify the fuel that White nationalist ideology uses to power its anti-Black racism, its contempt for other peopl...
https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism
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Quentin Bates
almost 2 years ago
It's been a pleasure to be involved with making an English version of this brilliant book a reality! This is Elsa Drucaroff's reimagining of the last days of Rodolfo Walsh – father, writer, journalist and opponent of Argentina's Junta. Listen to translator
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Slava Faybysh reads from Elsa Drucaroff’s RODOLFO WALSH'S LAST CASE (Corylus Books, 2024)
A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE9gkGyXnQ8&t=1s
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Quentin Bates
about 2 years ago
Fresh books! Stella's one of mine, and isn't out until May. Rodolfo Walsh's Last Case is brilliant and heartbreaking – out in early March, translated by
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Tal Lavin
over 2 years ago
can we discuss how good yiddish curses are. i like "may he be as rich as caesar and spend it all on doctors."
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I just watched a really cute pig video. Then during the video I realized I was eating pork. Then I realized tomorrow is Yom Kippur
over 2 years ago
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These actually say please clean the room and do not disturb 🤣
over 2 years ago
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Why the heck do I keep joining these sites?
over 2 years ago
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