Hey, maybe Barnard can invite some of the pro-Palestinian students they expelled to come back to campus to speak! /s

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.

JUST IN: At least six children are being treated following a Minneapolis school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School.

Anyone who knows the first thing about literary translation knows that direct translations are often impossible, and that creative, nuanced, sympathetic solutions must be found due to unfamiliar idioms, imagery, rhyming schemes, etc while balancing author motifs and style. AI simply can't do that.

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

I wouldn't want to be the gas pedal on the car Andrew Cuomo drives back to his home not in New York City tonight.

you know, on the evidence, "pundit" is a title you just sort of give yourself and then talk like you earned it. on these grounds: I've seen enough. I'm calling the race for Mamdani

Nino Sarratore has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

Job alert! Support lit in translation as @wwborders.bsky.social's social media coordinator.

Join us next month!

At WWB Campus, we bring global literature into the classroom with author visits. This week, we had the privilege of arranging visits from Dominican poet Frank Báez, who gave presentations and workshops in NYC schools. Thank you to Frank and to the students and teachers who opened their classrooms!

I wrote about the NEA cuts and that overwhelming feeling when so many different orgs and people need our money. But there are some answers in here too, courtesy of @michaelholtmann.bsky.social and @markkrotov.bsky.social. lithub.com/on-the-lates...

For most of our existence, WWB has received funding from the NEA. Now, like many others, we must chart a path forward without it. But our readers still deserve access to dazzling global writing. Please donate or share our work to support our mission of bringing the world close through literature.

This high school student blew me away with her writing! I had a great time working with her on edits and am so glad to give the piece a home on our blog. Give it a read!

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

« La déshumanisation des personnes qui se trouvent de l’autre côté de nos murs, c’est la zone d’intérêt »

It’s finally here!! 21 works from 7 countries and territories across the Caribbean, with more than half of them published bilingually. I hope you’ll click around and explore the hundreds of linked learning resources and dozens of lesson plans in the unit. Honored to have helped this together 💚

Also today, renewal: "Reading the Caribbean literary corpus sheds new light on the relations between the countries of the North and those of the South, [...] revealing the links between the history of the region & that of its former colonial overlords" - Évelyne Trouillot @wwborders.bsky.social

I hope you'll join me & all these lovely people as we celebrate & launch a unit on teaching Caribbean writers for @wwborders.bsky.social !

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Right now, it’s important for teachers to affirm the experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. From WWB Campus, this piece of graphic fiction “A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee,” alongside its teaching resources, is a great tool for just that.

In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read  "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: https://buff.ly/42OdRR3

So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

Excited for WWB Campus’s Caribbean unit? Get a sneak peek with this bilingual celebration of Afro-Caribbean language, alongside learning and teaching resources: https://buff.ly/3PX0lTr

OpenAI right now

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Let your children know that if ICE/Border Patrol comes to their schools, they do not have to answer questions - even if an adult tells them it's okay to talk.

Words Without Borders Campus is launching its newest unit for students and educators: poems and stories from the Caribbean. I’m so proud of this project. Join us next month to meet some of powerhouse authors and translators included in the collection! 📚

No one talk to me rn

Announcement for all early-career translators: submissions to this year’s Momentum Grant, judged by Julia Sanches, are due 2/28! Learn more about eligibility, submissions, and the Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators: https://buff.ly/3CnAgK5

En pointe into the New Year--

Absurdly excited about this!!!!

@humanite.fr à la hauteur de l'Histoire.

Banned Books USA’s campaign brought banned books to Florida residents. These books were the most requested. electricliterature.com/the-most-popular-banned-books-in-florida

Education Program Coordinator Maggie Vlietstra went with “Like a Sky Inside” by Jakuta Alikavazovic (tr. Daniel Levin Becker, Fern Books), “a stunning reflection on art, immigration, and the many ways to steal the Mona Lisa.” https://buff.ly/3Zvojtn

"I have no country to return to and no country to be banished from." A new collection of Najwan Darwish's poetry is coming from Yale Uni Press. We're proud to have published his earlier books, Nothing More to Lose and Exhausted on the Cross, all translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.

My library on the road. The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier is magnificent.

Want more insight on "The Long Form"? We've got you: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

We've added lots of great translation and global lit-centric presses and mags to this list since last week! If you think we've missed something, let us know! go.bsky.app/RPkPdAM

Today's students are dealing with everything from climate disasters to anti-immigrant rhetoric. The November WWB Campus newsletter helps teachers address these topics through global lit, plus much more. Read it here: https://buff.ly/3CrwP4L