So glad she/he/they got a credit on this

DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE: What moved me about this film was the way it shows, without a load of sentimental corn, how writers work, drafting and redrafting their material. It's also about how beautiful things--music, books, poetry--emerge from unhappy times.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Some 80 percent of Berlin was destroyed during WWII. Those ruins were an everyday part of Jenny Erpenbeck’s childhood, which she explores in her new essay collection, “Things That Disappear.”

Idle Things | Robert Rubsam

In “Things That Disappear,” Jenny Erpenbeck grapples with ruins, revealing the virtue of unproductive places and idle things.

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Terao Tetsuya graduated from NTU in Singapore and worked as a Google engineer. His new book lays bare the disgust, fascination, and sublimated envy at the heart of technical ambition. @arghpoetica.bsky.social reviews “Spent Bullets.”

Topping From the Bottom | Michelle Chan Schmidt

Maybe violence turns you on, maybe it doesn’t. Humiliation preens at either end.

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Meet the National Book Critics Circle 2025-2026 Emerging Critics Fellows! www.bookcritics.org/emerging-cri...

happy to see that the author's guild is hosting a free event on translator's contracts - translators deserve to have better contracts that ensure reasonable working conditions and protect translator rights authorsguild.org/event/transl...

Translation Contracts 101 - The Authors Guild

Literary translators deserve recognition and compensation for their labor and creative work. While the royalties are typically low due to revenues being split between multiple parties, a publishing co...

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this is how i found out

Here are some wonderful things writers/translators I admire have said about FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION, out in 1 month! Limited edition cover: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair... Regular cover: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/ @prototypepubs.bsky.social

The SCMP never reported Hong Kong's 140th out of 180 World Press Freedom ranking; it ran an AFP wire piece describing declining freedoms worldwide. But it's happy to trot out this obscure index no other news outlet has reported on. Oh and it's 37th out of 73; putting Hong Kong in the bottom-half

Voilà cinquante ans, les Khmers rouges prenaient le pouvoir au #Cambodge. La chercheuse Anne-Laure Porée étudie la façon dont ils déplacèrent le langage pour soutenir leur politique d’extermination. www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...

Anne-Laure Porée : « La langue promue par les Khmers rouges, c’est d’abord la langue de la guerre »

Voilà cinquante ans, les Khmers rouges prenaient le pouvoir au Cambodge. La chercheuse Anne-Laure Porée étudie la façon dont ils déplacèrent le langage pour soutenir leur politique d’extermination.

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these fascinate me

Poohsticks@poohsticks.bsky.social · last yr.

Hong Kong Patched City

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) Green Yellow and Orange, 1960

“First they came for the order of things, and my ashes said nothing, because I was a phoenix. Then they embezzled history, but memory’s account grew a forest, and that was when they came for time.”

Truth Is Never Finished | Fady Joudah

They came back for the map, but the map laughed them off: Who bombs hospitals to inherit the earth?

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Selamat Ulang Tahun, amuk! Happy Birthday, amuk. Thank you for the all places you took me to this past yr to read you, in person and virtually. More to come! A translation of a word, responding to systemic (mis)translation, in poetry form.

'We know all the reasons and more why the writing life isn’t worth it, and clearly none of them really matter because we still write.' Am feeling this especially in relation to the political possibilities of writing— what do words change? How and when do they matter? thepointmag.com/criticism/ca...

Careerism | The Point Magazine

Listen to an audio version of this essay here. An acquaintance of mine, a comedy writer, once admitted to feeling disappointed that she hadn’t won […]

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that last bullet point is doing some heavy lifting

Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 2y ago

Heading to the Sevens this weekend? Here's the list of ⚠️ prohibited items ⚠️ that are not allowed in the stadium: (ALT text for the list in text format should you wish to cut and paste)

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

Ernst W. Ruhmer@ruhmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

It does seem to be getting out of hand. How does a society reestablish the cultural taboo against lying out out of your ass?

Over a dozen University of Hong Kong (HKU) security personnel and staff escorted a small group of anti-war protesters from campus on Tuesday after calling the police to the scene. In full: buff.ly/vOAnwrf. Photos: Tom Grundy/HKFP.

I can't teach Dracula without at least mentioning The Lair of the White Worm.

Personally I would deregulate Omelas' zoning laws, allowing for the construction of more spacious domiciles and thus ultimately improving the little kid's living situation as the improvements show up down the value chain. Guess I'm just built different tho.

"I listen to the cities, so they will not wound me too much." —@jmaebarizo.bsky.social on her new book, TENDER MACHINES (@tupelopress.bsky.social), w/ @tiffanytroy.bsky.social in an interview from the latest Full Stop Quarterly, ed. by @arghpoetica.bsky.social: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/20/i....

In a set of poems, translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel, Sinan Antoon writes about the collision of death and nature. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

my “hk’s courts are independent and impartial” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

"An aimless young man finds unexpected guidance in his village's marsh in this surreal short story from Chinese writer #CanXue." #残雪 wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @wwborders.bsky.social @vivianwu.bsky.social #KarenGernant #translation #chineseliterature

At the Edge of the Marsh - Words Without Borders

An aimless young man finds unexpected guidance in his village's marsh in this surreal short story from Chinese writer Can Xue.

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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

If you’ve ever made intense eye contact with a deer and felt like it knew your secrets, this is your sign to turn that moment into art. Now open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, and Art! thedodgemag.com/submissions

Featuring new writing from Nigeria, Ghana, Myanmar, China, Poland, Finland, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, Ireland, UK, USA, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, we’re thrilled to announce that Lucky Interpret 13 has arrived 🎉