Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Our free newsletter subscribers have just received Esther Allen’s (@eallen.bsky.social) essay from the new Winter 2026 issue—a Borgesian tale of petty feuds and international rights, obsessive friendships and tangled copyrights. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/borges-and...

Esther Allen (@eallen.bsky.social) can spin the woolliest yarn with scholarly precision… You know who else was known for such things?

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Hello, at the University of Minnesota, we're hiring a visiting creative nonfiction writer for the next 2-3 years to teach a 1-1 (one grad class, one undergrad class) and potentially sit on some MFA thesis committees. This job will give you time to write you next book: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...

How did the poinsettia become a symbol of Christmas? Check out this article below in Time Magazine by my dad Norman Ellstrand and I: time.com/7202847/poin...

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech (11/05/2025) f the nyt

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

Translating literature is itself a form of art. No algorithm could render into English Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" with anything like the beauty that William Weaver did.

Today, we're excited to announce a new online open-enrollment class with the brilliant Carmen Maria Machado! Carmen's four-session class "Speculative Nonfiction: Four Lessons on Story, Memory, Speculation, and Invention" begins Feb. 25. Register now! buff.ly/PLEKu35 #writingcommunity

Really honored to be among the adjuncts and independent researchers whose work is featured on this list. Thank you @rcolesworthy.bsky.social & @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social for including Solidarity with Children and for honoring non-tenure track scholars each year! Solidarity with adjuncts ❤️

Somehow this is the worst part. Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined I posted three main figure from the article below www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing

I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

ICYMI and want to read about Something Else for a minute: I wrote about the history and evolution of deaf representation for @pbs.org American Masters. You can stream their documentary "Not Alone Anymore" on Marlee Matlin for free on the site, including an ASL version 🤩. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

I just learned of the death of Efraín Kristal, whose UCLA courses on Renaissance writing and, especially, on Borges showed me that serious scholarship need not deaden, but can in fact fortify one’s pure-hearted love of literature. As a translator, I found a credo in his work:

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

She operates on another level. A phenomenal woman.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

My latest author newsletter is about a trip to Ireland to meet students recently evacuated from Gaza open.substack.com/pub/nancykri...

What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together. Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.

A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know

Start with his translation of Kadare’s The Siege, enjoy his biography of the French comic filmmaker Jacques Tati and go on to his magnificent account of the way Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables, bringing the language of the Paris street onto the page for the first time.

In 2005, the inaugural year of that prize – which was then a biennial award for a body of work – his translations led the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare to become the first winner (they divided the prize money between them). thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

We're sad to hear of the death of David Bellos, a wonderfully witty writer, professor, translator and judge of the 2016 International Booker Prize.

Me comunican que ha fallecido David Bellos, primer biógrafo de Georges Perec y su traductor al inglés. Fue también quien encontró una copia de la novela 'El condotiero', que todos creían perdida.

RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...

Oh no!

He was very brilliant and very dear. And we will miss him so much.

RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.

RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

It’s the first known case of a federal raid near a migrant shelter since Trump took office.

In just over a half hour, the final session of readings by the 2025 NEA Translation Fellows! Starring ⭐️ Elina Alter ⭐️ Soleil David ⭐️ Julia Sanches and ⭐️ the 2025 NEA Translation Fellowships panel