To kick off Women in Translation Month, I reviewed Teresa Präauer’s Cooking in the Wrong Century, translated by Eleanor Updergraff, for Words Without Borders. Novels about food have taken over my life and I’m really enjoying it. Send more my way, please! This is now my beat

Bread, Wildflowers, and Social Satire: Teresa Präauer’s Cooking in the Wrong Century - Words Without Borders

Food is “a primary means of exploring class and social position” in Teresa Präauer’s novel, writes critic Nina Renata Aron.

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Great piece by @lydiakiesling.bsky.social about what's been lost (everything) in the pivot to shitty list culture

Lydia Kiesling@lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 7mo ago

When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...

"Like all good books about food, 'Bread and Milk' is sensuous and evocative," writes Nina Renata Aron. Read her review of Karolina Ramqvist’s “Bread and Milk” (tr. Saskia Vogel) at the link:

Swallowing Words: Food and Desire in Karolina Ramqvist’s Bread and Milk - Words Without Borders

"Like all good books about food, 'Bread and Milk' is sensuous and evocative," writes Nina Renata Aron.

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"After reading this book, I’m energized by it. In a world of faux pluralism and filtered, glassy, false surfaces, it’s exciting to be a little ugly." @dirt.bsky.social on UGLINESS @moshsky.bsky.social @ninarenataaron.bsky.social newvesselpress.com/books/ugline...

I wrote about my nose! And Moshtari Hilal's brilliant book @dirt.bsky.social @moshsky.bsky.social @newvesselpress.bsky.social

New Vessel Press@newvesselpress.bsky.social · last yr.

"UGLINESSis a chronicle of painful confrontations with the brutal,unimaginative regime of whiteAnglo-European beauty,but it’s also a savage indictment of the kind of powerthat requires ugliness to function. @dirt.bsky.social @ninarenataaron.bsky.social @moshsky.bsky.social dirt.fyi/article/2025...

saturday (the hedva is so good!)

Listened to Sinead O’Connor’s memoir (in her voice) and learned so much — that she volunteered with vets, wanted to be a health aide, that Peter Gabriel treated her like “weekend pussy,” that the barber who shaved her head begged not to do it. Adore her forever & even more

Years ago, my academic career ended with a whimper. My 2nd was a newborn, life was in shambles. Proud that this fall I'll be back in a grad seminar studying literary translation (Russian to English). A lifelong dream. And working on Ukrainian too 💙

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Obsessed with Eva Baltasar’s BOULDER

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Such a pleasure to be interviewed about one of the weird things I do to reckon with / disavow death! https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/cozy-mystery-guilty-plasures

This Is Your Sign To Read A Cozy Mystery

Writer Nina Renata Aron confesses that these days, she's indulging in the sweet pleasures of her childhood — including this addictive book genre.

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I’m inclined to agree! And I’m really looking forward to reading @benpurkert.bsky.social

look at this american airlines drink menu tucked in my bf’s copy of hegel’s encyclopedia logic and weep for civilization

the Women’s World Cup was “once a niche event that Fifa branded the M&M’s Cup so as to not tarnish the prestige of its main celebration” …

FC Gold Pride: the rise and fall of women’s soccer’s forgotten dream team

The San Francisco Bay Area was once briefly home to a powerhouse including Marta, Christine Sinclair, Camille Abily and Kelley O’Hara. But nobody cared enough to keep the club afloat

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“To me, this book is perfect. I felt brave and held as a Jew reading it…and inspired to be more ambitious in my own work.” Moved to sentimental, Jewish tears over this wild endorsement from @jiordancastle.bsky.social https://www.heyalma.com/11-jewish-authors-on-the-jewish-books-that-shaped-them/

This painting is called "Still Life with Green Soup" which I feel rather buries the lede

Just finished this. Very smart, sad, hot. Beautiful balance struck between agitation, loneliness, languor. Bravo K. Patrick