An enthusiastic new review of @twolinespress.com's NO EDGES: SWAHILI STORIES, with close attention to each story and novel excerpt in the collection. Asante sana @hachepueyo.bsky.social

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 4w ago

No Edges: Swahili Stories unites SFF stories translated from Swahili and Sheng: a secret lover, a witch town, a dystopian death sentence, and more. @hachepueyo.bsky.social discusses an anthology where every tale strikes true

Excellent Mount Tabor Open roundup by Michaela Lowthian #portland #tennis nwexaminer.com/p/mt-tabor-o...

Mt. Tabor Open, it all started at Wallace Park

Portland Tennis Courterly serves up an ace for Portland tennis fans and people who just want to have a picnic at the park

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A week from today: big release party at Mother Foucault's Bookshop in #Portland for big, new, summer issue of Portland Tennis Courterly. Issue theme: The Big Issue. It really is going to be big. Event link: www.motherfoucaultsbookshop.com/calendar-lis...

🎾 Portland Tennis Courterly: Big Issue Release Party — Mother Foucault's Bookshop

Portland Tennis Courterly : Big Issue Release Party https://tenniscourterly.com/ Saturday, June 6, 2026 7:00 PM

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A proposal to let the private US Tennis Association take the reins of Portland's public tennis courts, including the city's cherished tennis center, has gained momentum.

Net Benefits: The Future of Public Tennis in Portland - Portland Mercury

A proposal to let the private US Tennis Association (USTA) take the reins of the Portland Tennis Center—and the rest of the city’s public courts—has gained momentum. The plan comes amid a broader push...

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For Asymptote, I reviewed NOTES TO A BLACK WOMAN by Françoise Ega, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan (out now from @yalepress.bsky.social). "I haven't read anything like it!" a character says at one point in this real-life story—neither had I. Link: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/05...

For the Reader, It’s a Feast: A Review of Notes to a Black Woman by Françoise Ega - Asymptote Blog

. . . the agent seems astonished that the “woman of letters” is also a woman who makes lunch.

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My translation of ADRIFT IN THE SOUTH, the debut memoir of Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai 小海, out with Granta Magazine Editions today. A landmark work of the migrant worker literature movement, it showcases one of China’s liveliest emerging voices. #XiaoHai #chineseliterature #translatedliterature

EXEMPLARY HUMANS by Juliana Leite, translated from the Portuguese by @zoeperry.bsky.social, is out today from @twolinespress.com. It's a rare bird of a novel, and I sing its praises in this review published in @commonmag.bsky.social www.thecommononline.org/book-review-...

Book Review: Exemplary Humans

JAY BOSS RUBIN <br> When we first witness her breakfast routine, in the novel’s opening pages, it’s quite charming: she spreads globules of milkfat, along with softened butter, onto her not-so-fresh b...

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Book launch for Allison Markin Powell's fabulous translation of Kanako Nishi's SAKURA, tomorrow night at @literary-arts.org Bookstore & Cafe in Portland, Ore. I have the honor of wearing the interlocutor hat. literary-arts.org/event/sakura...

Sakura: Kanako Nishi and Allison Markin Powell

The Literary Arts Bookstore & Cafe is thrilled to welcome Kanako Nishi, author of the Japanese language novel Sakura and Allison Markin Powell, the English translator of the best-selling novel.

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Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by Arthur Sze and published by @deepvellum.bsky.social, is out today. What an honor to be included in this vibrant anthology. Order it here: store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...

Announcing the EXEMPLARY HUMANS Book Tour with stops in SF, DC, and NYC! 📗 Traveling from Brazil, author Juliana Leite and translator @zoeperry.bsky.social celebrate the English-language debut out from @twolinespress.com! 💚 More info and RSVP on our website: buff.ly/Gv0L0LI

I reviewed I WAS ALIVE HERE ONCE: GHOST STORIES for Asymptote. The collection, from @twolinespress.com's Calico series, features ghost stories from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Tanzania and Thailand. Who knew the dead could be so lively www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...

Smorgasbord of Spirits: A Review of I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories - Asymptote Blog

Layered, sensory passages and plainspoken, original metaphor co-exist in the collection; no one voice drowns out any of the others.

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In an interview w/ @africasacountry.bsky.social, Ainehi Edoro discusses her new book, FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK and how indigenous storytelling and cosmology expands what the novel can do. bit.ly/4rRlY8A @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

This Saturday ❤️2/14❤️ at Browsers Bookshop in Olympia, Washington: a special "love"-themed reading from THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI AND OTHER STORIES by Esther Karin Mngodo. Reading starts at 4 p.m. Karibuni :)

📢 @northwestreview.bsky.social is open for submissions of works in translation! Learn more and submit here.

Submissions and pitches - Northwest Review

Thank you for your interest in the Northwest Review. We look forward to reading your work. Founded at the University of Oregon in 1957, the Northwest Review publishes fiction, poetry, creative…

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Honored to be included in BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026, guest-edited by U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, to be published by @deepvellum.bsky.social on 4/14. Thanks to @koimolove.bsky.social for writing the beautiful story; thanks to @commonmag.bsky.social for publishing it and nominating it to BLT.

BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 is available for preorder! Guest edited by National Book Award winner Arthur Sze, BLT 2026 is compiled from over 450 submissions written in 62 original languages and features poetry and prose written in languages both widely spoken and critically endangered.

Mahmood Mamdani Launches New Book To Full Houses in Nairobi #BookLaunch www.writingafrica.com/mahmood-mamd...

Mahmood Mamdani Launches New Book To Full Houses in Nairobi

Mahmood Mamdani launched his latest book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, in Nairobi on January 23 and 24, 2026.

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Hats off to Shaina and Rodrigo, alums of @artomi.bsky.social's Translation Lab 2024, for this new spin on a magic kingdom story.

Fictionable@fictionable.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For a young boy from the edge of the city, the house where his grandmother works is like a magic kingdom. Rodrigo Urquiola Flores examines the geography in DYSNEYWORLD, translated by Shaina Brassard: www.fictionable.world/stories/dysn... #books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #translation

Tsitsi Dangarembga receives Sharjah Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award 2026 www.writingafrica.com/tsitsi-danga...

Tsitsi Dangarembga receives Sharjah Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award 2026

Tsitsi Dangarembga received the Sharjah Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award 2026 in Sharjah, UAE, on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.

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#Winter is here with #ShortStories from Cynthia Zarin, Rodrigo Urquiola Flores translated by Shaina Brassard, Tim Conley, Cynthia Banham and Samuel Rigg – and Joanna Kavenna on the non-truth truth of #fiction Catch them all at fictionable.world #books #reading #writing #comics #translation #blog

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Translation Tuesday #literarytranslation reading, one week from today at Mother Foucault's Bookshop in #Portland. Featuring three translators, poetry and prose, Swahili, Hungarian, and Spanish. www.motherfoucaultsbookshop.com/calendar-lis...

TRANSLATION TUESDAY — Mother Foucault's Bookshop

Translation Tuesday at Mother Foucault's! Tuesday, January 20, 2026 7:00 p.m.

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What a list! Our eye is immediately drawn to "the first collection of Swahili Afro-Speculative fiction in English, The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories by Esther Karin Mngodo", but this collection of reccos could keep us going for all 2026, pretty sure #booksky #weird #literature

“Cheers to the Weirdos!”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Favorites List for 2025

Here we go again! Putting together this year brings me such joy and I hope you find something beautiful here, too. Sometimes, it can seem as if no one reads anymore but making this list reassures m…

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Wrapping up 2025 with translations of three poems by Euphrase Kezilahabi, published today in The Fortnightly Review. Happy New Year / Heri ya Mwaka Mpya to all!! fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/translatio...

Translation: "Learning to Steer" and Two Other Poems by Euphrase Kezilahabi

Translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin.

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THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI AND OTHER STORIES made @hfr.bsky.social 's year-end list. Honored to be among the weirdos heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/12/29/w...

“Cheers to the Weirdos!”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Favorites List for 2025

Here we go again! Putting together this year brings me such joy and I hope you find something beautiful here, too. Sometimes, it can seem as if no one reads anymore but making this list reassures m…

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“Brother Morpheme had succeeded in keeping his emotions out of his work for the 150,982 assignments he’d handled prior to Ms. Mvungi.” Up now: “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” by @koimolove.bsky.social, translated by @jaybossrubin.bsky.social. Art by Valerie Hammond. evergreenreview.com/read/the-wit...

The Witness of Nina Mvungi

Evergreen Review

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Very fine essay on teaching Kiswahili in Istanbul, by Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy. Because of its hybridity and ability to connect Africa and the wider world, teaching Swahili in Istanbul is "not an accidental exercise, but a continuation of this cosmopolitan spirit." www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-e...

Connecting Africa and Türkiye: Teaching Kiswahili in Istanbul

Teaching Kiswahili in Istanbul builds a bridge of shared humanity between Africa and Türkiye

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Just published on the Asymptote Blog: a beautifully crafted and incredibly insightful review of THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI AND OTHER STORIES by @koimolove.bsky.social. Review by Rebecca Suzuki—hybrid forms specialist + fellow translator www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...

More Than a Witness: A Review of The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories by Esther Karin Mngodo and Jay Boss Rubin - Asymptote Blog

Across the collection, these stories are unforgiving and gut-wrenching, a reminder that reality is often the same.

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We at Portland Tennis Courterly are honored and humbled to feature the brilliant writing + brave reporting of @marisakabas.bsky.social in our latest issue. This is a reprint of her dispatch from the US Open, which first appeared in The Handbasket on September 8th www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-o...

Why I had to see Trump at the US Open with my own eyes

Staring straight across the court at a fascist is bad for the soul, but certainly instructive.

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Speaking of the sports beat—a very cool magazine called Portland Tennis Courterly printed my column about Trump at the US Open in their latest issue!