So excited to announce this! Available only in India for now.

Chirag Thakkar@chiragthakkar.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m thrilled to be publishing a truly special new book by the brilliant, International Booker Prize-winning @shreedaisy.bsky.social Alice Sees Ghosts is nothing short of a literary masterpiece dressed as a delicious ghost story unlike any you’ve read before. Pre-order it here: amzn.in/d/hrQLWHZ

"But in a world which is full of categories, hatred and ideologies, there was this basic decency. There was something beautiful about the two people." ~ Basharat Peer on Homebound www.rediff.com/movies/repor...

'There Was Something Beautiful About The Two People'

'In a world which is full of categories, hatred and ideologies, there was this basic decency.'

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"The aim of translation, especially in former colonies like ours where English is acquired along with a complicated baggage, should never be to write in “proper” English [but] to introduce the reader to new words that come loaded with the hum of another language." scroll.in/article/1081...

“This is not just my victory, but a chorus of voices often left unheard. A thousand fireflies lighting a single sky, brief, brilliant and utterly collective.” ~ Banu Mushtaq in her acceptance speech. #InternationalBooker2025 #internationalbooker

The @financialtimes.com editorial board on the west's shameful silence on Gaza. (Proud to be a small part of this paper.)

Breaking news: Tensions between the two countries have been rising since last month when New Delhi blamed Islamabad for an attack by militants in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people. www.ft.com/content/c03e...

Note the reference in the Pulitzer designation to her "fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years"

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last yr.

A Pulitzer prize to Ann Telnaes, whose cartoon showing a supplicating Bezos led to her departure from the Washington Post's Opinion section

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza The renowned Palestinian poet and author, Mosab Abu Toha, is among this year’s Pulitzer prize winners. Abu Toha was awarded for a series of essays in the New Yorker documenting the lives and suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, where he has lived nearly all his life. Continue reading...

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"I have just won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Let it bring hope Let it be a tale." ~ Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet and Pulitzer winner: www.ndtv.com/world-news/l...

"Let It Be A Tale": Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer

Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha has won the Pulitzer Prize for his powerful essays, chronicling the physical and emotional toll of the ongoing war in Gaza.

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Percival Everett: "That is the first thing fascists do—go after books and art—because that is where we are most human. And it is not writing that I consider so wonderfully subversive. It is actually reading, the most subversive thing we can do. " news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/a-de... #writing

A Deep Read interview. Percival Everett and the making of James

This spring, Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James, a book that reoccupies and reimagines Ma...

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Ocean Vuong, in an interview that cracks open so much, so beautifully. "The syllabus was Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Foucault. And I realized #writing was not writing a respectable email to get a job. It was a medium of understanding suffering. That’s when it changed." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

‘The Interview’: Ocean Vuong was Ready to Kill. A Moment of Grace Changed His Life.

The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.

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Small notes: Tim Berners-Lee in 1999: "Inventing the WWW involved my growing realisation that there was a power in arranging ideas in an unconstrained, weblike way.The Web arose as the answer to an open challenge, through the swirling together of influences, ideas, & realisations from many sides."

Small notes: how easily AI Overview is fooled by fake proverbs ("the crow and the scarecrow are no friends", "the deepest well holds the sweetest water" and other nonsense). It provides such plausible back-formations and stories. You wonder how long the Web as we know it will remain truthful.

"We are facing a global crisis," says the artist and graphic novelist Badiucao. "The outcome is either autocratic empires dividing the world or World War III." A generation of dissidents and exiles turn to the graphic novel/ memoir — my column for the @financialtimes.com. archive.is/6fxlR

If this ain't a goddamn perfect eulogy, I don't know what is.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

And some people Write poems every day of their lives But not on the page, not on the screen… Lost and Found by @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social (read by @zigzackly.bsky.social ) youtu.be/s3kTfnNDADM?...

Lost and Found, by Nilanjana Roy

YouTube video by Poetry in Parks

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Watching One Hundred Years of Solitude, spooling the episodes out slowly so as to let the memory of the book return. Many years ago, GGM set conditions for film-makers: the entire book must be filmed, but only one chapter, two minutes long, was to be released each year, for one hundred years.

Persons of the Year — two whose courage and integrity under extreme loss and horror stood out to me: Gisèle Pélicot, who spoke for so many when she said that "shame must change sides". And Wael al-Dahdouh: "They took revenge on us through our children." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh

The long read: After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just th...

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🧽 Squeaky Clean by @callummcsorley.bsky.social and ⚫️ Black River by @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social BOTH @thetimes.com Best Paperbacks of 2024! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

The 50 best paperbacks of 2024

Can’t bear to carry around yet another hardback? Or do you balk at the horror of a £40 book? Paperbacks are the answer: here are some of this year’s finest

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lovely piece on the threat AI poses to book translation, which doubles as an ode to translators: www.ft.com/content/3dff...

The good news keeps rolling in! BLACK RIVER by @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social is one of Crime Reads Best Crime Novels of 2024! crimereads.com/the-best-cri...

The Best Crime Novels of 2024

Another terrible year for the world and another great year for books! While we have plenty of spinoff lists to come before the end of the year, it’s time to share the CrimeReads editors&#8217…

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When @parodevi.bsky.social writes about chilli cheese toast, best of hot gooey messes. "The sharp chilli bites your tongue, the plump salty cheese caresses it, and so it can go on infinitely, a sweet lick of tomato sauce keeping the excitement fresh." www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...

Cheesy chilly toast in Latur

That day arrived in Latur. Scanning the menu, I spied it. Chilli Cheese Toast. Only the world’s bestest snack.

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Erik Pedersen and I chat about books, reading and crime fiction. For the OC Register and other papers: www.dailynews.com/2024/12/06/b...

‘Black River’ author Nilanjana S. Roy reveals the mysteries of her reading life

In the Book Pages, the writer discusses her excellent novel and the great book advice her father gave her.

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Non-fiction by Indian women writers: Urvashi Butalia, Ghazala Wahab, Neha Dixit and I have a few suggestions. In Namita Bhandare's column: www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/abso...

Sharp insights from @rahulabhatia.bsky.social. "By not naming that group, the receiver of the communication was left to take that last step of making the connection. That gives the suggestion of power because making a connection is a proactive act; it comes from you."

Rahul Bhatia@rahulabhatia.bsky.social · 2y ago

In which I tell Ziya Us Salam about the self-censoring instinct that took me by surprise after the first draft was done. (3/3) www.thehindu.com/books/books-...

I hope the Assad regime’s millions of victims find justice, and a divided world can get its act together to help Syrians in what’s certain to be a tough and risky transition 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾

A headline for the ages 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 Syrian rebels seize Damascus and topple Assad dynasty on.ft.com/49oa91X

Syrian rebels seize Damascus and topple Assad dynasty

[FREE TO READ] Bashar al-Assad’s whereabouts unclear as regime collapses

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In 12 days I’ll be 71. This was the year I had the courage to publish my novel. It was a strange process, the fiction world, but made easier by @saltpublishing.com who’ve been fantastic. I’m lucky to have had some amazing reviews, ❤️ to everyone who read it and said encouraging things

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem