I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?"
Susan Bernofsky
@translationista.bsky.social
Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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Just realized something about Leon Botstein, in whose employ I was from 1998-2005 as an assistant professor of German at Bard College. Three years ago, he wanted to meet with me for some reason [cont'd] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Bard’s board voted to end Botstein’s tenure as president after independent review of Epstein ties
Botstein announced his retirement on the day the results of the inquiry into his connections with Epstein were released
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Please join us on 2/26 at 6 PM for the English-language book launch of "Sanderling" ("Ahnen: Ein Zeitreisetagebuch") and a conversation with the author, Anne Weber, the translator @neilblackadder.bsky.social, and moderated by @tesslewis.bsky.social. Details & RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sanderling...
"Sanderling:" An Evening with Anne Weber, Neil Blackadder, and Tess Lewis
Please join us for the book presentation of "Sanderling," and a conversation among Anne Weber, Neil Blackadder, and Tess Lewis
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Y’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogues for the appendix. 1/2
BREAKING: Liron Mor declines @modernlanguage.bsky.social's 2025 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in protest of the MLA Exec Council's supporting genocide by suppressing a delegate assembly vote. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter by Liron Mor Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
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Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
Looking forward to continuing the conversation with the brilliant translationista Susan Bernofsky about The Magic Mountain, which has been going on for not quite seven years yet... www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ve...
Book Talk: Susan Bernofsky and Veronika Fuechtner on Thomas Mann - Goethe-Institut USA
Tue, 11/25/2025 – GEGENÜBER Talks – Literature Across Borders
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In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism
What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain?
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Apropos of The New York Times's concern trolling today about Mamdani's "thin" resume, I'd like to remind everyone that Mamdani is currently serving his THIRD term in the NY State Assembly. NYT sweetheart Mike Bloomberg, by contrast, held NO office before becoming mayor.
Endorsements | Zohran for NYC
Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.
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Did your rabbi sign that wretched letter (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) wrongly accusing Mamdani of "Delegitimiz[ing] the Jewish community and encourag[ing] and exacerbat[ing] hostility toward Judaism and Jews"?!? This letter claims that ...
The @nytimes has fallen to a new low by printing these propagandistic lies by a co-author of Trump's "compact." I'll give just one example of his newspeak: Compare this false claim (below) with the actual text of the compact (further below). nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o... 1/7
Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.
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Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
🧵This week, New Directions will publish a collection of essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, Things That Disappear, translated by Kurt Beals, a translator for whom I have the highest respect. Since this is a book I translated chunks of 15 years ago for magazines, and since I know some of you enjoy getting
Grateful to my colleagues next door at Barnard, Professors Castelli and Callahan of the Barnard @aaup.org, and brilliant writer Jhumpa Lahiri for these clear and principled words. We all know what it means to support real freedom of speech on and off campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Opinion | Struggles for Free Expression on Campus
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Can you help the Ali Forney Center provide meals for unhoused LGBTQ+ kids in NYC? Just $5 buys a meal for two young people. Please pitch in if you can! serve.aliforneycenter.org/twilight-twi...
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Serve: Serve dance. Serve food. Serve love.
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I'm looking forward to this event tonight with the great Katrine Øgaard Jensen and some exciting emerging writers you'll be hearing more about soon www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/lectures-literary/writing-the-world-from-copenhagen-to-nyc/
I was so delighted to be asked to review Han Kang's new novel We Do Not Part, translated into English by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, for Korean Literature Now. It's a stunning book, beautifully translated. klwave.or.kr/klw/magazine...
As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it). Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Columbia punished our kids for protesting against the genocide in Gaza. We condemn the university’s cowardice
We are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
So looking forward to this!
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)@catranslation.org · 12mo agoAnnouncing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote. Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...
Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote. Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...
Defections matter: “All authoritarian regimes rely on support from key institutions in society … When members of these pillars stop cooperating with the regime […] it becomes difficult or impossible for autocrats to stay in power.” @mariajstephan.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last yr.* U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNIT THAT DEFENDS TRUMP POLICY HAS LOST TWO-THIRDS OF ITS STAFF, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY * 69 LAWYERS HAVE LEFT FEDERAL PROGRAMS BRANCH SINCE TRUMP'S ELECTION, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Defections matter: “All authoritarian regimes rely on support from key institutions in society … When members of these pillars stop cooperating with the regime […] it becomes difficult or impossible for autocrats to stay in power.” @mariajstephan.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/113995/colle...
Big Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat Authoritarianism
The journey from individual angst to collective action takes time, vision, and commitment. It is also the pathway to victory.
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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last yr.* U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNIT THAT DEFENDS TRUMP POLICY HAS LOST TWO-THIRDS OF ITS STAFF, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY * 69 LAWYERS HAVE LEFT FEDERAL PROGRAMS BRANCH SINCE TRUMP'S ELECTION, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
The Swiss newspaper Der Bund that printed Robert Walser's first poems in 1898 just reviewed the German translation of my Walser biography 🔄 www.derbund.ch/robert-walse...
Neue Biografie: Robert Walser tappte immer wieder in die Falle des Aussenseitertums
Die US-amerikanische Germanistin Susan Bernofsky hat ein Buch über den sonderbarsten aller Schweizer Autoren geschrieben. Darin untersucht sie, wie zielstrebig er war – und woran er scheiterte.
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Everything was fine until Trump decided to unleash violent raids w/o grounds in elementary schools, shopping areas, & peaceful public spaces. ICE then illegally blocked Members of Congress entry into the facilities they are disappearing people into, escalating the situation. Let’s start there.