Polkagoat
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Voracious reader, Central Asian history, history, fibre arts, gardening, tomato breeding, cats, dogs, blues, and hockey. Canadian. I don't like doomers or fascists.
#ChinggisKhan died #OnThisDay in 1227 Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires. 🔓 This article is free for 7 days buff.ly/yIJl0US
Mothers of the Mongol Empire
Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires.
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my deepest fried friendos, my novel got a starred review from Publisher's Weekly what is even happening in lyf im so ded please preorder it! www.blaft.com/products/a-c... angryrobotbooks.com/books/a-revi... www.publishersweekly.com/9781915998866
A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel
Manickavel (Things We Found During the Autopsy, a story collection) makes her full-length debut with this wonderfully strange wo...
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It's fun exercising with cats. "Look at my downward dog", "You call that a cat pose?", "Here's my lovely fluffy tail in your face", " I can plank all day". Go away cat, you have 4 legs and live in a state somewhere between solid and liquid.
What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-t...
What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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We are so excited to reveal our special edition of The Only Way Out is Up by Django Wexler in collaboration with Orbit! 🥳
📰 Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Plant Lady” by Minyoung Kang and translated by Shanna Tan @doubledaybooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/plant-lady-b...
Free #witmonth story via the Asia-Pacific Journal: "Masks of Whatchamacallit" by Kyoko Hayashi (1930-2017) (translated by Kyoko Selden) “By the little stream is a trapezoid-shaped stone. Sitting down on it, Takako looks around. There are no trees. No houses..." apjjf.org/2016/15/haya...
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if you’re looking for some new #WITMonth short stories, Dahlia de la Cerda’s MEDEA SANG ME A CORRIDO is tight, brutal, weirdly kind of hopeful in a “fuck you, we live anyway” kind of way.
"The Old Snow Woman was away, far away. With her pointed ears like a cat's and her swirling ashen hair, she was far, far away beyond the ragged, gleaming clouds over the western mountains." Can quite see why Hayao Miyazaki is a fan.
Sunday August 2: "Party on the Veranda" by Mata Kastrisiou; translated by Kostas Kaltsas. "And the girl gave birth to her mother." @akpress.org #WITmonth
#OTD 5/8/1914 #RememberRCN -With Canada at war, British Columbia rushes to purchase submarines C1 & C2 from Seattle shipyard for defense of Canada's West Coast & sails them out of US waters. Purchase had to be completed before US declared its neutrality. Marc Magee Painting
Victor Hugo's Choses Vues (Things Seen), first-person accounts of events in Paris, 1838 to 1885, has been called “the only great classic of journalism.” Yet we've never had a complete English translation of it. What are we missing out on? (Covers edited for adult content) neglectedbooks.com?p=8273
I'm looking for an Italian edition of The Divine Comedy today. Preferably with lovely illustrations or cover art.
Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, marking a major step toward restoring the species in the Ili River delta https://ow.ly/3ETK50ZvKjS #WildlifeConservation #TigerRestoration #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #Tigers
Kazakhstan Releases First Tiger into Wild in More Than 70 Years - The Times Of Central Asia
Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, beginning the practical phase of a long-running program to restore the
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Ending the month with a review of one of my favourite books of the year.
BOOK REVIEW: The Republic of Memory, by Mahmud El Sayed
Teaser Two centuries on from its launch, the generation ship Safina has strayed from its purpose. Its crew are now divided by language, its precious cargo of sleeping ancestors at risk from power s…
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One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović, recounts the effects of the Yugoslav Wars on kids playing in the basement as fighting rages around them. Translated from Croatian by Ena Selimović 🇭🇷 Great pick for #WITMonth 📘🤩 #WomenInTranslation
nothing unites them except the desire for our extermination Report from the Besieged City by Zbigniew Herbert www.divasofverse.com/2014/03/repo...
Report from the Besieged City by Zbigniew Herbert
Report from the Besieged City Too old to carry arms and fight like the others - they graciously gave me the in...
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My next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905–1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" is coming out with Liverpool UP in two weeks. I am in talks with an Indian publisher to release a South Asian version as well. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire
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New on the blog today, WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION - some book recommendations for #WITMonth. Featuring books by Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann), Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle) and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...
Women Writers in Translation – some book recommendations for #WITMonth
As many of you know, August is #WITMonth (Women in Translation), a celebration of books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English and then translated for English-speaking …
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How many fairy tales, horror movie, and urban legends have warned us not to go into the deep, dark woods? But do we listen?! Well, maybe one of these 7 books will finally convince people that nothing good comes of messing with freaky forests...
Seven Horror Books Featuring Freaky, Frightening Forests - Reactor
Sure, why not head up to the creepy cabin in the woods — what could possibly go wrong?
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THE POISON PALACE is a historical myth-retelling rooted in ancient folklore, about the true cost of Alexander the Great's empire-building, and what happens when a poison maiden gets to tell her own story. Dead women do tell tales. Coming Jan 2027. Preorders live! #BookSky linktr.ee/shreyaila
This Dark Night: The Life of #EmilyBrontë by Deborah Lutz vividly reconstructs the world that produced Wuthering Heights. Are there limits to this approach? ✍️ Claire O’Callaghan reviews the recent #historybook buff.ly/W7WXzdn
‘This Dark Night’ by Deborah Lutz review
This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz vividly reconstructs the world that produced Wuthering Heights. Are there limits to this approach?
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Où l’on apprend que les Mongols avaient une formule parfaitement appropriée pour la France de 2027 : des candidats au pouvoir suprême « si mauvais que même enrobés de graisse un chien ne les mangerait pas, et même enrobés d’herbe une vache ne les brouterait pas » youtu.be/W3Ctkb4MMsI?...
440. Successions #2 : l’empire mongol, avec Simon Berger
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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 4w agoVous savez quel était le secret des Mongols pour que la succession des grands khans se déroule bien? Prévoir d'établir ces transitions dynastiques progressivement. Steppe by steppe. Successions, ép. 2 avec @chakarchinggis.eurosky.social, en ligne aujourdhui : parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...
Travels of a 17th-century African abolitionist: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça's 1684 Vatican case against Atlantic Slavery www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
“As I reached the door, Auntie Zou lowered her voice and added: ‘Don’t tell anyone about this.’” chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/23/t...
The Missing Pages | China Books Review
Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained her through the tumult.
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