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Here’s a short essay I did on translation: medium.com/the-jt-lit-r....
On Translation
On Translation Through my mother, I’m a second-generation American. My grandparents were immigrants from Italy, as were my great-grandmother, my great-uncle, and my great-aunt, all of whom I knew …
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January 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Here’s a short essay I did on translation: medium.com/the-jt-lit-r....
21 days at the cancer centre by @szfkight medium.com/p/21-days-at...
21 days at the cancer centre
everyday life is (always already )alienating. The documents the hospital gave me, spoke to me about 4 or 5 times, contained every warning…
medium.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
21 days at the cancer centre by @szfkight medium.com/p/21-days-at...
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New on the blog: Read an extract from @joseando1007.bsky.social’s debut novel, JACKSON ALONE, translated from Japanese by Kalau Almony.
Read here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Read here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
An extract from Jose Ando’s ‘Jackson Alone’ | London Review Bookshop
Jackson Alone, Jose Ando's short, sharp debut, is about four mixed-raced Black Japanese gay men out for revenge when a disturbing pornographic video of one of them is…
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January 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
New on the blog: Read an extract from @joseando1007.bsky.social’s debut novel, JACKSON ALONE, translated from Japanese by Kalau Almony.
Read here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Read here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Days and Nights in the Forest: Satyajit Ray:
"Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale."
#Satyajitray #Cinema #Daysandnightsintheforest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Uf...
"Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale."
#Satyajitray #Cinema #Daysandnightsintheforest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Uf...
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST - Official 4K Restoration Trailer
YouTube video by Janus Films
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January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Days and Nights in the Forest: Satyajit Ray:
"Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale."
#Satyajitray #Cinema #Daysandnightsintheforest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Uf...
"Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale."
#Satyajitray #Cinema #Daysandnightsintheforest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Uf...
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📣 Opportunity for early-career translators: @wwborders.bsky.social's Momentum Grant is open for submissions. The contest will be judged by @jeremytiang.bsky.social and the editors of Words Without Borders.
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Words Without Borders Announces Fourth Annual Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders
This grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
📣 Opportunity for early-career translators: @wwborders.bsky.social's Momentum Grant is open for submissions. The contest will be judged by @jeremytiang.bsky.social and the editors of Words Without Borders.
Learn more here:
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Defining Lynchian: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/defining-lynchian/
January 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Defining Lynchian: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/defining-lynchian/
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REPRESENTATIONS OF THE INTELLECTUAL by Edward W. Said, with a preface by Isabella Hammad, publishes today.
Read an excerpt on our website: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/repres...
Read an excerpt on our website: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/repres...
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE INTELLECTUAL by Edward W. Said, with a preface by Isabella Hammad, publishes today.
Read an excerpt on our website: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/repres...
Read an excerpt on our website: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/repres...
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Read 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼's @danielnemo.bsky.social study on how we came to mistake our own constructs for the world itself, in an invitation to look for the cracks where the underlying reality seeps through.
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#essay #reality #writingcommunity #hors-serie
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#essay #reality #writingcommunity #hors-serie
January 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Read 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼's @danielnemo.bsky.social study on how we came to mistake our own constructs for the world itself, in an invitation to look for the cracks where the underlying reality seeps through.
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#essay #reality #writingcommunity #hors-serie
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#essay #reality #writingcommunity #hors-serie
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Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
The Finishing Touch | Walter Siti
The murdered Poet became for him the gash in the center of the sun, the model and the justification for being misunderstood. From the audience, during academic conferences, he hurled passionate and se...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
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For the new @nplusonemag.com issue, I wrote about Jia Zhangke’s latest feature and my growing up in a disappearing China. (Featuring nervous chickens in my grandparents’ yard and a vice premier who failed to keep our appointment.) tinyurl.com/33bd6rn9
Before the Flood | Han Zhang
I always got moody on Sunday afternoons when I woke up from a long nap and it was already dark outside, as if I had wasted the only Sunday of my life. I had a hunch that six years of elementary school...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
For the new @nplusonemag.com issue, I wrote about Jia Zhangke’s latest feature and my growing up in a disappearing China. (Featuring nervous chickens in my grandparents’ yard and a vice premier who failed to keep our appointment.) tinyurl.com/33bd6rn9
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What indy titles are indy bookstore shoppers reading? Launching today: a new and alternative best-sellers book list from the Independent Publishers Caucus and @americanbookseller.bsky.social... www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Independent Publishers Caucus Launches Bestseller List with ABA
The Independent Press Top 40 is a new weekly bestseller list that ranks the most popular fiction and nonfiction titles from indie publishers, as sold by American Booksellers Association member stores.
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January 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
What indy titles are indy bookstore shoppers reading? Launching today: a new and alternative best-sellers book list from the Independent Publishers Caucus and @americanbookseller.bsky.social... www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
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Explore first books, context, the love poem, writing your truth and revision with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social, DS Waldman, Starr Davis and @taraskurtu.bsky.social in these workshops starting in February! Register by January 18th to save $25. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Explore first books, context, the love poem, writing your truth and revision with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social, DS Waldman, Starr Davis and @taraskurtu.bsky.social in these workshops starting in February! Register by January 18th to save $25. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
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#ClipOfTheDay: In this 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Center virtual event for “Abundance II: A Global Poetry Performance” hosted by Gbenga Adesina, fourteen Black poets from ten different countries read in multiple languages and in translation. at.pw.org/Abundance
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
#ClipOfTheDay: In this 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Center virtual event for “Abundance II: A Global Poetry Performance” hosted by Gbenga Adesina, fourteen Black poets from ten different countries read in multiple languages and in translation. at.pw.org/Abundance
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/ especially the last book, This Mournable Body: an ethical quality that does not depend on characters who function as exemplars of good action. But comparisons don't get far: Onwuemezi's writing is not like much else I encounter. Here is David Hayden's review: www.theguardian.com/books/2021/o...
Dark Neighbourhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi review – wildly original
This debut collection of stories uses visceral language and a disruptive style to explore the challenges of knowing ourselves and others
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 AM
/ especially the last book, This Mournable Body: an ethical quality that does not depend on characters who function as exemplars of good action. But comparisons don't get far: Onwuemezi's writing is not like much else I encounter. Here is David Hayden's review: www.theguardian.com/books/2021/o...
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and here is an interview: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-va...
Interview | 'Letting Go of My Mother Tongue': Vanessa Onwuemezi - The London Magazine
Tom Conaghan ‘Let Go of Your Mother Tongue’: An Interview with Vanessa Onwuemezi Is it possible to describe your creative process as you write such innovative stories? Now I’m a more practised writ...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:44 AM
and here is an interview: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-va...
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Dark Neighbourhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi was published in 2021. It's disquieting, original writing that sees our times coming. The title story brought to mind Caryl Churchill's Far Away for the completeness of its imagined & seen world, & also the ethical quality of Tsitsi Dangarembga's trilogy /
January 15, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Dark Neighbourhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi was published in 2021. It's disquieting, original writing that sees our times coming. The title story brought to mind Caryl Churchill's Far Away for the completeness of its imagined & seen world, & also the ethical quality of Tsitsi Dangarembga's trilogy /
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Happy Pub Day to Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes and all of the great poets involved in “Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poet!” This 11 piece Chapbook Box Set is available now from Akashic Books at
www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/kumi...
www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/kumi...
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Happy Pub Day to Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes and all of the great poets involved in “Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poet!” This 11 piece Chapbook Box Set is available now from Akashic Books at
www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/kumi...
www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/kumi...
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New-Generation African Poets, edited by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani, Akashic Books, 2025.
January 3, 2026 at 5:27 AM
New-Generation African Poets, edited by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani, Akashic Books, 2025.
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ICE Raids. Japanese & Japanese American Wartime Incarceration. Excellent interview here with @brandonshimoda.bsky.social
"Poetry seems central to how we redress these kinds of wounds. The poetry needs to happen for anything to be redressed or anything to be healed." –Brandon Shimoda on the afterlife of Japanese American wartime incarceration
The Afterlife of Japanese American Wartime Incarceration
Poet Brandon Shimoda explores the ongoing legacies of the US government’s mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II.
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January 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
ICE Raids. Japanese & Japanese American Wartime Incarceration. Excellent interview here with @brandonshimoda.bsky.social