Sabir
@sabirsultan.bsky.social
He/him. Books & events at PEN America. Previously Strand Bookstore & B&N. Views my own.
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Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an author, and ways of making co-translation equitable.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
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Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody have surged. A prison guard describes rampant abuse
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Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody have surged. A prison guard describes rampant abuse
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights gro...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody have surged. A prison guard describes rampant abuse
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Applications are now open for the 2026 DREAMing Out Loud program! This creative writing initiative supports emerging migrant writers in New York City. The program runs from February to April 2026. Apply today at: pen.org/fellowships/...
DREAMing Out Loud
DREAMing Out Loud is a PEN America’s tuition-free creative writing workshop series for young immigrant writers.
pen.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Applications are now open for the 2026 DREAMing Out Loud program! This creative writing initiative supports emerging migrant writers in New York City. The program runs from February to April 2026. Apply today at: pen.org/fellowships/...
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In our new PEN Ten interview, Aja Gabel discusses how she has developed as a writer with her new novel Lightbreakers (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social, 2025) which follows the story of a husband and wife grappling with loss. Read more: pen.org/aja-gabel-th...
Using Science Fiction to Write About Grief, Marriage, and Memory
In this PEN Ten interview, Aja Gabel discusses Lightbreakers and writing literary fiction that utilizes sci-fi elements.
pen.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In our new PEN Ten interview, Aja Gabel discusses how she has developed as a writer with her new novel Lightbreakers (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social, 2025) which follows the story of a husband and wife grappling with loss. Read more: pen.org/aja-gabel-th...
Love Marilyn Hacker!
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Love Marilyn Hacker!
I started the Witcher season 4. Spent a full ten minutes marveling at how Liam Hemsworth and Henry Cavill are identical. Thinking to myself, it’s crazy how much they look alike. Wild. Realized I had mistakenly started season one episode one. Started season 4. I still can’t tell them apart.
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I started the Witcher season 4. Spent a full ten minutes marveling at how Liam Hemsworth and Henry Cavill are identical. Thinking to myself, it’s crazy how much they look alike. Wild. Realized I had mistakenly started season one episode one. Started season 4. I still can’t tell them apart.
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"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
Amen, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
Amen, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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October 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
Amen, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
Amen, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
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Out today!
Weekend reading: Racebook x Tochi Onyebuchi
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Out today!
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The Avery Review | In Fragments, in Fire: Four Books from Gaza averyreview.com/issues/72/fr...
The Avery Review | In Fragments, in Fire: Four Books from Gaza
The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The Avery Review | In Fragments, in Fire: Four Books from Gaza averyreview.com/issues/72/fr...
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In our new PEN Ten interview, our 2025 Emerging Voices Fellows explore what inspires their writing and the community that they have found amongst other creatives. Read more: https://pen.org/2025-emerging-voices-fellows-the-pen-ten-interview/
2025 Emerging Voices Fellows | The PEN Ten Interview
PEN America’s 2025 Emerging Voices Fellows provide insight into their creative processes and how they’ve developed as writers.
pen.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In our new PEN Ten interview, our 2025 Emerging Voices Fellows explore what inspires their writing and the community that they have found amongst other creatives. Read more: https://pen.org/2025-emerging-voices-fellows-the-pen-ten-interview/
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"Gonzalez-Garcia is 15 but has the cognitive ability of a 5-year-old, Espinosa said... 'We want to push back on the narrative that HPD has said that during these 4 hours, they determined that Emmanuel was an unaccompanied minor because he told them. Emmanuel cannot hold a conversation for 4 hours.'"
A missing Houston teen with autism remains in immigration custody and is set for appendix removal. His mother doesn't know when he'll be released to her care. bit.ly/3JbwHdt
October 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"Gonzalez-Garcia is 15 but has the cognitive ability of a 5-year-old, Espinosa said... 'We want to push back on the narrative that HPD has said that during these 4 hours, they determined that Emmanuel was an unaccompanied minor because he told them. Emmanuel cannot hold a conversation for 4 hours.'"
“I see more opportunity in telling truer, fuller stories about the guilty—not the lurid ones that end with the conviction…”
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“I see more opportunity in telling truer, fuller stories about the guilty—not the lurid ones that end with the conviction…”
It is here and I cannot wait!
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It is here and I cannot wait!
Amazing new essay by THE Patricia Smith on aging and how poets see time. So funny & moving.
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Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages
Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, cert…
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October 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Amazing new essay by THE Patricia Smith on aging and how poets see time. So funny & moving.
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Today my mother called me to tell me she loved Yiyun Li’s Things In Nature Merely Grow. She told me she wanted to read the rest of her books. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
It’s a heartbreaking book. It’s also the best written book I’ve read this year. Buy it! Read it!
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It’s a heartbreaking book. It’s also the best written book I’ve read this year. Buy it! Read it!
bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Check out Things in Nature Merely Grow - <p><b>Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.<br><br></b>“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyu...
bookshop.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Today my mother called me to tell me she loved Yiyun Li’s Things In Nature Merely Grow. She told me she wanted to read the rest of her books. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
It’s a heartbreaking book. It’s also the best written book I’ve read this year. Buy it! Read it!
bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
It’s a heartbreaking book. It’s also the best written book I’ve read this year. Buy it! Read it!
bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
The inimitable Rabih Alameddine will be at the Center for Fiction tonight discussing his new novel "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)." It's really good. Funny, heartbreaking, political, moving - the usual excellent mix.
Tickets below;
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Tickets below;
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
The Center for Fiction Presents Rabih Alameddine on The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) with John Freeman | The Center for Fiction
Rabih Alameddine, award-winning author of The Wrong End of the Telescope, joins us to celebrate the release of his new novel, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).Wildly original ...
centerforfiction.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The inimitable Rabih Alameddine will be at the Center for Fiction tonight discussing his new novel "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)." It's really good. Funny, heartbreaking, political, moving - the usual excellent mix.
Tickets below;
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
Tickets below;
centerforfiction.org/event/the-ce...
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On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
September 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
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Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
Classified Israeli army database indicates vast majority of 6,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza and detained in appalling conditions are civilians.
By Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
Classified Israeli army database indicates vast majority of 6,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza and detained in appalling conditions are civilians.
By Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza are civilians.
www.972mag.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
Classified Israeli army database indicates vast majority of 6,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza and detained in appalling conditions are civilians.
By Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
Classified Israeli army database indicates vast majority of 6,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza and detained in appalling conditions are civilians.
By Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
Obsessed with the cover art of Ariane Koch's Overstaying (trans. by Damion Searls). It's so good.
September 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Obsessed with the cover art of Ariane Koch's Overstaying (trans. by Damion Searls). It's so good.
Does anyone know of any recent memoirs, poetry collections, or novels by women of color chronicling infertility journeys?
September 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Does anyone know of any recent memoirs, poetry collections, or novels by women of color chronicling infertility journeys?
“As I write these lines, I struggle to explain why humanistic study and language learning are not only important to the University of Chicago, but to our society at large. I struggle, because the importance of such things are truths that I, and many of my peers, hold to be self-evident.”
My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation
The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.
chicagomaroon.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“As I write these lines, I struggle to explain why humanistic study and language learning are not only important to the University of Chicago, but to our society at large. I struggle, because the importance of such things are truths that I, and many of my peers, hold to be self-evident.”
“These artifacts implore us to pay attention, to ensure that the next time genocide is inflicted upon a people, we do more than just bear witness their suffering.”
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Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza
More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia, and the US war in Afghanistan combined, making it the deadliest conflict for media worker…
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August 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“These artifacts implore us to pay attention, to ensure that the next time genocide is inflicted upon a people, we do more than just bear witness their suffering.”
lithub.com/dr-seema-jil...
lithub.com/dr-seema-jil...