Mireille Juchau
@mireillejuchau.bsky.social
Writer, Critic. The World Without Us (Bloomsbury), Burning In (Giramondo). Essays here and there. Researching archives, dreams and war.
www.mireillejuchau.com
www.mireillejuchau.com
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Dreams from the Third Reich
March 14, 2025 – "I dreamed that the milkman, the gas man, the newspaper vendor, the baker, and the plumber were all standing in a circle around me, holding out bills I owed. I was perfectly calm unti...
www.theparisreview.org
Excerpts from Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, republished in English this month after decades out of print. A work that could not be more prescient, in its exploration of how fascism invades every part of private life, even the sleeping mind.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Hallucinating AI sounds remarkably like the very stable genius.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hallucinating AI sounds remarkably like the very stable genius.
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So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg.
-Why the sudden irreversible decision?
-Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)?
-Why the secrecy?
-Why use the financial viability argument now?
As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.
-Why the sudden irreversible decision?
-Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)?
-Why the secrecy?
-Why use the financial viability argument now?
As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.
Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up
Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...
www.crikey.com.au
September 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg.
-Why the sudden irreversible decision?
-Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)?
-Why the secrecy?
-Why use the financial viability argument now?
As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.
-Why the sudden irreversible decision?
-Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)?
-Why the secrecy?
-Why use the financial viability argument now?
As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.
US$3000 per stolen book doesn't sound like generous compensation from a company worth $183 billion...
www.forbes.com.au/news/innovat...
www.forbes.com.au/news/innovat...
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle copyright lawsuit from book authors
Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from a group of book authors and publishers, according to a filing, marking the largest US copyright settlement of all ...
www.forbes.com.au
September 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
US$3000 per stolen book doesn't sound like generous compensation from a company worth $183 billion...
www.forbes.com.au/news/innovat...
www.forbes.com.au/news/innovat...
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Looking forward to joining this lineup in Sydney on August 17 to celebrate Antigone Kefala’s distinctive fiction and poetry. Once undersung and marginalised, her work is gaining new admirers with recent publications here and in the US.
July 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Looking forward to joining this lineup in Sydney on August 17 to celebrate Antigone Kefala’s distinctive fiction and poetry. Once undersung and marginalised, her work is gaining new admirers with recent publications here and in the US.
Looking forward to joining this lineup in Sydney on August 17 to celebrate Antigone Kefala’s distinctive fiction and poetry. Once undersung and marginalised, her work is gaining new admirers with recent publications here and in the US.
July 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Looking forward to joining this lineup in Sydney on August 17 to celebrate Antigone Kefala’s distinctive fiction and poetry. Once undersung and marginalised, her work is gaining new admirers with recent publications here and in the US.
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NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
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If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here:
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Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (about:blank). We also write as individuals with a range of political beliefs. We are de...
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July 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here:
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'Dear friends,
We are now deep in the heart of famine...'
A fundraiser for writer, researcher and winner of the Al Khalili poetry award, Mohamed Alzaqzooq, colleague of a writer friend, to help evacuate his family with 3 small children, now starving in Gaza.
gofund.me/ebc07c23
We are now deep in the heart of famine...'
A fundraiser for writer, researcher and winner of the Al Khalili poetry award, Mohamed Alzaqzooq, colleague of a writer friend, to help evacuate his family with 3 small children, now starving in Gaza.
gofund.me/ebc07c23
Donate to Help Mohamad's Family: From War to Hope, organized by Mohamad Alzaqzooq
Dear friends,
My name is Mohamad AlZaqzooq, and I am reaching out to you… Mohamad Alzaqzooq needs your support for Help Mohamad's Family: From War to Hope
gofund.me
July 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'Dear friends,
We are now deep in the heart of famine...'
A fundraiser for writer, researcher and winner of the Al Khalili poetry award, Mohamed Alzaqzooq, colleague of a writer friend, to help evacuate his family with 3 small children, now starving in Gaza.
gofund.me/ebc07c23
We are now deep in the heart of famine...'
A fundraiser for writer, researcher and winner of the Al Khalili poetry award, Mohamed Alzaqzooq, colleague of a writer friend, to help evacuate his family with 3 small children, now starving in Gaza.
gofund.me/ebc07c23
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Applications are now open for the Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The $35,000 scholarship is offered annually to an Australian author to provide them with valuable time to work on a current manuscript. One runner-up will receive $15,000.
www.asauthors.org.au/award/blake-beckett-trust-scholarship
www.asauthors.org.au/award/blake-beckett-trust-scholarship
Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship - Australian Society of Authors
Offered annually, the $50k Scholarship provides an Australian author with valuable time to work on a current manuscript, with $35,000 awarded to the winner and $15,000 awarded to second place.
www.asauthors.org.au
July 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Applications are now open for the Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The $35,000 scholarship is offered annually to an Australian author to provide them with valuable time to work on a current manuscript. One runner-up will receive $15,000.
www.asauthors.org.au/award/blake-beckett-trust-scholarship
www.asauthors.org.au/award/blake-beckett-trust-scholarship
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Announcing 🥁 The Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English, run collaboratively by Giramondo, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions.
Submissions will open from 15 July to 15 August.
Learn more: bit.ly/4ll3gmB
Submissions will open from 15 July to 15 August.
Learn more: bit.ly/4ll3gmB
June 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Announcing 🥁 The Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English, run collaboratively by Giramondo, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions.
Submissions will open from 15 July to 15 August.
Learn more: bit.ly/4ll3gmB
Submissions will open from 15 July to 15 August.
Learn more: bit.ly/4ll3gmB
"...Palestinians are condemned to live in a constant present, denied access to their own past and to the possibility of thinking about an alternative future.”
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newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...
Historicide in Gaza
Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told
newlinesmag.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"...Palestinians are condemned to live in a constant present, denied access to their own past and to the possibility of thinking about an alternative future.”
newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...
newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...
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Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
July 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
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Please sign and share - a worthy petition to protect Sociology at Macquarie and, more generally, to protest the declining commitment by university managers to strong social sciences in Australia. Their value cannot be over-stated.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics.
Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...
www.megaphone.org.au
July 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Please sign and share - a worthy petition to protect Sociology at Macquarie and, more generally, to protest the declining commitment by university managers to strong social sciences in Australia. Their value cannot be over-stated.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
Looking forward to crossing multiple time zones to join this starry program of writers, next week, in Berlin.
quick reminder that this symposium-festival of wonderful Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand authors will be on next Saturday in Berlin!! just check out that line-up 👀👀.......
stadtsprachen.de/de/event/par...
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PARATAXE SYMPOSIUM XVI = Antipoden: Down under in Berlin – die australischen & neuseeländischen Autor*innen Berlins
Programmentwurf: 13:30 Uhr: AuftaktMit Alexander Wells und Martin Jankowski 14:00 – 15:30 Uhr: Panel 1 (in deutscher Sprache)NEIGHBOURS. Begegnungen, Übersetzungen, Anregungen.Keynote: Prof. Anja Schw...
stadtsprachen.de
May 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Looking forward to crossing multiple time zones to join this starry program of writers, next week, in Berlin.
‘I asked the paramedics what was hardest about this work. Responding to an air strike and discovering that it’s your own family, one said. Recovering the bodies of children, another said. He paused…“It is strange that the world has allowed this to happen to us.”’
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Last Hospitals in Gaza
In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.
www.newyorker.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
‘I asked the paramedics what was hardest about this work. Responding to an air strike and discovering that it’s your own family, one said. Recovering the bodies of children, another said. He paused…“It is strange that the world has allowed this to happen to us.”’
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...
Down Under in Berlin: Reflections on why readings matter - The Berliner
Books critic and native Australian Alexander Wells has curated a unique festival celebrating literature from Australia and Aotearoa. Here's why you can't miss it.
www.the-berliner.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...
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STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement:
‘Not In Our Name’
We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
forms.gle
April 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
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FULL LINEUP for our little festival of Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand literature in Berlin on May 24th!! Come see professors, poets, artists, & novelists (& me); come hear about Weiss & Bismarck's bastards & Sebald in the desert & multidirectional war memory >>
stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...
stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...
PARATAXE Symposium XVI = Antipodes: Down under in Berlin – the Australian & New Zealand authors of Berlin
Draft program: 13:30: Kick-offWith Alexander Wells and Martin Jankowski 14:00 – 15:30: Panel 1 (in German)NEIGHBOURS. Encounters, translations, suggestions.Keynote: Prof. Anja SchwarzPanel: Joel Scott...
stadtsprachen.de
April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
FULL LINEUP for our little festival of Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand literature in Berlin on May 24th!! Come see professors, poets, artists, & novelists (& me); come hear about Weiss & Bismarck's bastards & Sebald in the desert & multidirectional war memory >>
stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...
stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...
Excerpts from Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, republished in English this month after decades out of print. A work that could not be more prescient, in its exploration of how fascism invades every part of private life, even the sleeping mind.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
Dreams from the Third Reich
March 14, 2025 – "I dreamed that the milkman, the gas man, the newspaper vendor, the baker, and the plumber were all standing in a circle around me, holding out bills I owed. I was perfectly calm unti...
www.theparisreview.org
April 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Excerpts from Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, republished in English this month after decades out of print. A work that could not be more prescient, in its exploration of how fascism invades every part of private life, even the sleeping mind.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
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