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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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Around ten years ago Marijn Heule, Oliver Kullmann and Victor Marek proved that if you 2-colour the positive integers from 1 to 7825, then you must be able to find x, y and z all of the same colour with x^2+y^2=z^2 -- that is, a monochromatic Pythagorean triple. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Around ten years ago Marijn Heule, Oliver Kullmann and Victor Marek proved that if you 2-colour the positive integers from 1 to 7825, then you must be able to find x, y and z all of the same colour with x^2+y^2=z^2 -- that is, a monochromatic Pythagorean triple. 1/
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Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40
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November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
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Zohran Mamdani's last name tells the story of centuries of trade routes, migration patterns and cultural exchange across continents. “Mamdani” reveals how names carry histories we often overlook, according to a religious studies professor. buff.ly/oMNKrKr
Zohran Mamdani’s last name reflects centuries of intercontinental trade, migration and cultural exchange
Mamdanis belong to the Khoja community, who were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman” because their traditions spanned both religions.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Zohran Mamdani's last name tells the story of centuries of trade routes, migration patterns and cultural exchange across continents. “Mamdani” reveals how names carry histories we often overlook, according to a religious studies professor. buff.ly/oMNKrKr
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ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
What Mamdani Learned from His Mother’s Films - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Zohran Mamdani, as most readers know by now, is the son of a filmmaker, Mira Nair. His parents met while she was working on Mississippi Masala (1992); his
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November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
The Labor politicians from Starmer on down have such timid bourgeois comportement. Just a bunch of nullities.
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Labor politicians from Starmer on down have such timid bourgeois comportement. Just a bunch of nullities.
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
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Deeply moving to see this first family.
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Deeply moving to see this first family.
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A late night call I missed:
Democrats have flipped back the sole city council seat the GOP has in the Bronx.
Republicans had flipped this council seat in 2023, and it was their first seat in the Bronx since the early 1980s.
Democrats have flipped back the sole city council seat the GOP has in the Bronx.
Republicans had flipped this council seat in 2023, and it was their first seat in the Bronx since the early 1980s.
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A late night call I missed:
Democrats have flipped back the sole city council seat the GOP has in the Bronx.
Republicans had flipped this council seat in 2023, and it was their first seat in the Bronx since the early 1980s.
Democrats have flipped back the sole city council seat the GOP has in the Bronx.
Republicans had flipped this council seat in 2023, and it was their first seat in the Bronx since the early 1980s.
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I hope that everybody celebratorily hooks up tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I hope that everybody celebratorily hooks up tonight
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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the sort of headline we're seeing all over: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
the sort of headline we're seeing all over: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
"A sales tax increase in Santa Clara County appeared headed for victory on Tuesday, signaling a willingness among South Bay voters to help backfill federal cuts to food and health care safety net programs."
www.kqed.org/news/1206279...
www.kqed.org/news/1206279...
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"A sales tax increase in Santa Clara County appeared headed for victory on Tuesday, signaling a willingness among South Bay voters to help backfill federal cuts to food and health care safety net programs."
www.kqed.org/news/1206279...
www.kqed.org/news/1206279...
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Fall sale underway @dukepress.bsky.social What a lot of prizewinning, relevant books. Check this out: t.e2ma.net/message/dh88...
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Fall sale underway @dukepress.bsky.social What a lot of prizewinning, relevant books. Check this out: t.e2ma.net/message/dh88...
Today's mail. Jumped right into the Genette essay on Proust in the Essentials book & probably for the first time (in my limited reading of literary criticism) saw an efficacious use of mathematical notations. They distilled in a line what took a page to describe. I have quibbles still about the
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Today's mail. Jumped right into the Genette essay on Proust in the Essentials book & probably for the first time (in my limited reading of literary criticism) saw an efficacious use of mathematical notations. They distilled in a line what took a page to describe. I have quibbles still about the
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"To what extent does the hybridity which francophone writers must face lead to “forced poetics”, in the words of Glissant, or the invention of new forms of literary expression? What aesthetics are involved?"
Book examines Quebecois, Belgian, Caribbean and African literature
#OpenAccess #French
Book examines Quebecois, Belgian, Caribbean and African literature
#OpenAccess #French
Littératures francophones : Parodies, pastiches, réécritures
Au moment où on s’interroge sur le sort des langues dans une perspective de mondialisation, il est important de réfléchir aux conditions d’existence des littératures de langue française, à leurs inter...
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April 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM
"To what extent does the hybridity which francophone writers must face lead to “forced poetics”, in the words of Glissant, or the invention of new forms of literary expression? What aesthetics are involved?"
Book examines Quebecois, Belgian, Caribbean and African literature
#OpenAccess #French
Book examines Quebecois, Belgian, Caribbean and African literature
#OpenAccess #French
"What was God doing with himself before the creation?" - From Beckett's Molloy.
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"What was God doing with himself before the creation?" - From Beckett's Molloy.
So far this reads a bit like a cross between dreamlike surrealism of Breton's "Nadja" and the baroque decadence of Huysmans' "Against Nature", since one of the characters is somewhat reminiscent of the protagonist Jean des Esseintes in the Huysmans' book.
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 AM
So far this reads a bit like a cross between dreamlike surrealism of Breton's "Nadja" and the baroque decadence of Huysmans' "Against Nature", since one of the characters is somewhat reminiscent of the protagonist Jean des Esseintes in the Huysmans' book.
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Come on, people! If you like Big Ambitious Doorstopper Literature, read "Making of Americans" by Gertrude Stein, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" by Marguerite Young, "Almanac of the Dead" by Leslie Marmon Silko, "Merry Men" by Carolyn Chute, "Mosquito" by Gayl Jones. Plenty more to choose from!
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Come on, people! If you like Big Ambitious Doorstopper Literature, read "Making of Americans" by Gertrude Stein, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" by Marguerite Young, "Almanac of the Dead" by Leslie Marmon Silko, "Merry Men" by Carolyn Chute, "Mosquito" by Gayl Jones. Plenty more to choose from!
Money and sex. This second novel in the Rougon-Macquart series is off to a banger of a start. Hugely entertaining.
Loved the first volume. Hence checked out the next in series.
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Money and sex. This second novel in the Rougon-Macquart series is off to a banger of a start. Hugely entertaining.
Read the Mario Bellatin since it was so thin. A pastiche of a certain kind of Japanese literature embellished with narrative tricks that makes for a somewhat enjoyable reading. He has been lauded as one of the leaders of new Latin American literature as well as a prankster. The latter fits more.
Today's mail. Looking forward to the Sarraute essay on the nouveau roman.
Since the spines do not show them, the subtitle for the Bucholz book is "Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction" and the one for Broch is "The European Imagination, 1860-1920".
Since the spines do not show them, the subtitle for the Bucholz book is "Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction" and the one for Broch is "The European Imagination, 1860-1920".
October 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Read the Mario Bellatin since it was so thin. A pastiche of a certain kind of Japanese literature embellished with narrative tricks that makes for a somewhat enjoyable reading. He has been lauded as one of the leaders of new Latin American literature as well as a prankster. The latter fits more.