ten million hardbacks
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Too many books, not enough time! Reading and relaxing in Liverpool, Tokyo or elsewhere. Books, travel and more: http://10mh.net
We’re Recruiting: Editorial Assistant, Modern Poetry in Translation. Apply by 31 August Please share! modernpoetryintranslation.com/were-recruit...
We're Recruiting: Editorial Assistant, Modern Poetry in Translation - Modern Poetry in Translation
Apply by 31 August 2026
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your regular reminder that if that's what they say in public, imagine what they say and do in private
This has been great in the past and I’m certain it will be just as great this year!
Some Wirral St John’s Hospice events - if you are on the Wirral may I ask you to share this please? Thank you!
bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/08/03/dont-ever-wipe-tears-without-gloves-by-jonas-gardell-an-important-book-and-a-translation-tragedy-20bos26/ @bookaround.bsky.social
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell – an important book and a translation tragedy. #20BOS26
Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves by Jonas Gardell (2012-2013) French title: N’essuie jamais de larmes sans gants. Translated by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud et Lena Grumbach. I’m supposed to write a …
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For Japan’s aging homeless population, brutal summers are dangerously inescapable www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...
For Japan’s aging homeless population, brutal summers are dangerously inescapable
At a time when temperatures are regularly reaching dangerous levels, people without homes are increasingly vulnerable to heatstroke.
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Re: renewed #COVID discourse, those who need a refresher How Shit Went Down in the UK are reminded i wrote a real time, frontline, community-based keyworker account that was shortlisted for 2 x big national literary awards and got me into events talking w/MPs etc uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...
Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic
"When Covid struck in early 2020, librarian Stu Hennigan volunteered to deliver food parcels to vulnerable people in Leeds who were self-isolating and had no other access to food during the savage day...
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All I will say is that it's worth remembering that the 'Scouser in the Team' position comes with a certain amount of responsibility as well; it's not just a ceremonial role.
Almost 20 years on, director Danny Boyle’s flawed sci-fi epic Sunshine is still a spectacular looking movie. Shame about that ending. filmstories.co.uk/features/sun...
Sunshine is still Danny Boyle’s most beautiful-looking film
Almost 20 years on, director Danny Boyle’s flawed sci-fi epic Sunshine is still a spectacular looking movie. Shame about the ending.
filmstories.co.uk
Infantino’s plan to privatize the World Cup has failed, but this must become an opportunity to seriously reform the governance of FIFA and international football - and to do so democratically. Read the new article on FOOTBALL POLITCS: footballpolitics.substack.com/p/how-to-ref...
How To Reform International Football
Infantino's plan to privatize the World Cup has failed, but this must become an opportunity to seriously reform the governance of international football - and to do so in a democratic direction.
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Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...
Spotted in idie shop Bard Books, Roman Road, East London. @stuhennigan.bsky.social #booksky On a personal note, Stu, I was just reading your writing in the piece for Em, and it helped me unlock just be with it. Go independents ❤️ @ortacpress.bsky.social
Isn't it weird how alleging dodgy behaviour when someone is alive is met with threats of defamation lawyers and doing it when they're dead is undignified and unfair. It's almost as if, stay with me on this, people just don't want to know.
When UEFA are the good guys, the bad guys.are very bad indeed.
We are not suddenly going to convince ourselves that UEFA - UEFA!!!! - are the good guys, are we???! Give over.
August is Women in Translation month - #WITMonth - and here are some recommendations from me: readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/w...
WIT Month: Some Favourite Books in 2025 & 2026
A post on some recommendations for Women in Translation (WIT Month) featuring twelve books covering nine languages.
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If anyone is in Edinburgh next Friday I’m doing 2for1 tickets for my first performance tickets.thespaceuk.com/event/911:68...
The Umbrella Man: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination
17 - 22 AugDallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be on Main Street - crowds fifty deep, a blizzard of ticker tape. A few blocks away in Dealey Plaza, the scene is quieter:
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OUT NOW in paperback! ‘Teenage Daydream: We are the Girls Who Play in a Band’ by @debseyonbass.bsky.social A Times Book of the Year The Shindig Book of the Year “The godmothers of indie-pop” Mojo “Winningly captures the devil-may-care optimism of adolescence” Guardian Design by Paul Kelly
#OtD 30 Jul 2014 the Working Class History project began on Facebook! 🎉 If you would like to give us a birthday present, please consider supporting us on @Patreon so we can help improve, grow and get our history out to more people! patreon.com/workingclass...
#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...
Kumamoto in SW Japan was hit by another huge quake today (after recovering from a serious one in 2016). Thinking of everyone affected and sending strength to the first responders and emergency services. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Japan earthquake: Widespread damage from magnitude 7.1 quake
Some reports say there was an explosion at the Aeon Mall in Kumamoto, following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake.
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Osip Mandelstam, translated by Paul Celan, translated in his turn by Pierre Joris. Where would we be without our translators?
Immensely saddened to hear that author Higashino Keigo has died of colon cancer. He was only 68. The Devotion of Suspect X remains one of my favourite mysteries . RIP.
‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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What this @theguardian.com column misses is that Dazai’s life is rife with exactly the self-loathing, masculinist attitude that gets so much traction in certain circles online ATM. A 2020s Dazai (or Mishima) boom in English may be good for book sales—but it doesn’t really bode well for society.
From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star
More than seven decades after they were first released, the dark novels of Osamu Dazai have become a publishing sensation, as a new generation of readers engage with his bleakness, humour and brillian...
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THE REVISIONIST 🎥 is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is, but Dustin Hoffman walks away with it and we don't really need anything else movieswetextedabout.com/dustin-hoffm...
Dustin Hoffman Carries 'The Revisionist' (Tribeca 2026 Film Review)
Dustin Hoffman might not have too many more films in him, but he is winding up his career on a personal high. In Tuner, also released this year, he stole the entire film as the kind and charismatic pi...
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Every Japanese girl band making rave-influenced records and I don't hate it?
