Please don’t buy our books on Amazon. If you can’t afford to buy them from a real bookstore or from us directly, pirate them from Anna’s Archive like God intended.

In the latest @thetls.bsky.social, I review Iya Kiva’s uncompromising collection “Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters,” translated from Russian and Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk @huribooks.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

Happy International Translation day! No better gift than having my latest translation in my hands. The earthy-ethereal, brutal-gentle poems by Dan Sociu in Deep Fakes will be available from World Poetry Books, with a beautiful cover by Ana Maria Micu, starting next week.

✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.

Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)@catranslation.org · 3w ago

Tomorrow/Thursday! 💫 Join us for a day full of panels celebrating the power of human connection across languages at our 7th Day of Translation! In-person at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY and livestreamed worldwide (rsvp or ticket required). We hope to see you there: buff.ly/EbyZA3b

Why read a devastating book on the beach - when you can read three? Sooo goood

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susan Stewart / @uchicagopress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/12-o...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susan Stewart

Susan Stewart is a poet, scholar, and translator and the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Princeton Un...

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I love this new Substack by Beca Sandu, an exploration of women's subjectivity -- and especially that of her mother and grandmother in Communist Romania. It's hard to describe what it is, you just have to read a few entries. Feels totally fresh to me as an approach. justmeandthebear.substack.com

Just Me and the Bear | Rebeca Sandu | Substack

Notes on women's subjectivity inside and beyond dictatorship. Click to read Just Me and the Bear, by Rebeca Sandu, a Substack publication. Launched 24 days ago.

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Dallas! Chicago! NYC! SF! DC! Tatiana Tîbuleac and Monica Cure are coming to you on an incredible 5-city tour to celebrate The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes — sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute! We’ll see you there.

Contributors to @twolinespress.com’s Calico Series, @dianaarterian.bsky.social, Eric Fishman, and @monicacure.bsky.social share their recommendations of translated poetry collections from across the world 🗺️. Find your next read here: buff.ly/2l3XEKY

Poetry in Translation: Recommended Reading by Calico Translators - CAT Center

In celebration of National Poetry Month and to highlight the dazzling global range of poetic work, we invited literary translators Diana Arterian, Eric

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Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), Italian aristocrat & pioneering figure in the early history of photography #WomensArt

“There is one thing I’m good at, and that’s looking at the sea.” —Marguerite Duras

As the water temperature rises, the fish become more active and want to get through the door! Why not help them and ring the bell if you see one. A good way to spend some time this Easter northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/...

Ring ring! Open the door, let me through! The Fish Doorbell

Every year in spring, a lovely side of humanity shows in the form of a fish doorbell in Utrecht, Netherlands, but what is it and what does it do?

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I was honored to take part in the public humanities project, Through the Lens of K-Drama, with a discussion of Crash Landing on You. Towards the end, I discuss how the show humanizes the geopolitics of division - something we very much need everywhere today www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSxb...

Crash Landing on You: Life Under Communism in North Korea and Romania

YouTube video by Through the Lens of K-Drama

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Because.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island

Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

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"I’m not the first translator to say that translation can feel like a seance. There are all these voices and references at play in the text, and then you channel them like a medium – what do you hear, what do you mishear?" Michelle & I interviewed by English PEN pentransmissions.com/2026/02/19/n...

Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja

Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.

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"The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis." Empower the arts ✊ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent

When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

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3 days of Romanian authors and events to coincide with London Book Fair, featuring @monicacure.bsky.social Istros Books @deepvellum.bsky.social and @sevenstories.bsky.social and even myself as a translator. Hope to see you there! www.rcilondon.co.uk/event-detail...

Romanian Literature, Foreign Address: Romania at the London Book Fair 2026 | RCI London

For Romania’s 16th participation at the London Book Fair (LBF), the Romanian Cultural Institute presents a diverse programme about distance, movement and literary belonging.

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Today's the official publication day of my translation of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Tibuleac! I don't think I've ever had a more exciting lead up, with a review in the New York Times and especially the visit of @deepvellum.bsky.social founder @willevans.bsky.social to Bucharest

"If you use AI there’s a loss of process—art process, theatre making, translation....Process is where you build knowledge. Just going from A to B without process, you gain no knowledge, no human experience. You gain zero opportunity because you are not having to engage with anybody else..." #xl8 💙📚

American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“[I]n a sense, a translator is always like a fan. You’re always in this position of admiration, but you are also emulating the author.” Sarah Gear interviews translator Jen Calleja on the art, politics, and livelihood of literary translation. At Asymptote: buff.ly/3WmFKtX

East Window, 2008 by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

📚 Join Ceci Rossi for How to Write a Reader’s Report 📚 What exactly is a reader’s report? Is it simply a synopsis of a book, a critical commentary, or a combination of both? And what purpose does it serve? Find out more & register👉 www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

I'm pinching myself. My newest translation @deepvellum.bsky.social in the New York Times. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/b...

Why Does This Teenager Hate His Mother So Much?

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Such a beautiful interview by @brittastromeyer.bsky.social with Tatiana Tibuleac about The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes @deepvellum.bsky.social! www.ronslate.com/a-dialogue-w...

Check out all of our upcoming titles for the first quarter of 2026! All of these books are available for preorder now at store.deepvellum.org.

May all the beautiful things that lay dormant last year come to life in 2026. (Brașov, Romania)

We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation. Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue. It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚

I'm absolutely ecstatic! What amazing company Liliana Corobca and I @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social are in!

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation@womenintranslation.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v