Rob Madole
@robmadole.bsky.social
Writer & translator in Berlin. ILLUSIONS by Ruth Rehmann forthcoming from Faber Editions
This Women in Translation Month, very happy to be working at The Auflauf, where it's WITM every month: in our first 6 months we've run reviews of Franck, Maci, Mehr, Reimann; original translated fiction by Sylvia Krupicka; and an interview with Herta Müller's latest translator:
Kate McNaughton: 'Herta Müller reminds us that writers are on the front line.'
The novelist on her new translation of the Romanian-born Nobel Prize winner—and the limits of beauty as resistance
theauflauf.com
Die Schriftstellerin Ruth Rehmann schaut aus, als würde sie von Sandra Hüller gespielt.
Wie großartig ist es bitte, dass Ruth Rehmanns ILLUSIONEN im August bei @faberbooks.bsky.social in der Übersetzung von @robmadole.bsky.social erscheint?!?!! Siebzig Jahre nach ihrer Lesung bei der Gruppe 47 und dem Erscheinen des Originals.
Reading Illusions by Ruth Rehmann (translated by @robmadole.bsky.social ) and realising, just 50 pages in, that nobody, nobody at all, is going to be getting a biscuit at the end of this one
Reading Illusions, a 1959 novel by Ruth Rehmann (translated from German by Rob Madole). Guess what it reminds me of? THE SLAVES OF SOLITUDE!!!
My novel is coming out in paperback soon with this handsome new cover! If you've been thinking of picking up a copy, please do me a solid and consider putting in a preorder for £10.44, which I understand is roughly the price of a pint in London. Thank you! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/poor...
It’s characteristic that the product Palantir calls their “Ontology” is a “digital twin of the world” — the definitional opposite of ontological!
Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in *American Homes and Gardens* (1911)
Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.
publicdomainreview.org
fantastic piece by @ajbwells.bsky.social on Sophie Duvernoy's epic EFFINGERS translation www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit review – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis
Written in 1951 and now translated into English for the first time, this family saga by the acclaimed German author recaptures a golden age for Jewish life
theguardian.com
solitary men at Burgermeister listening to podcasts I am one of them
Have you listened to our 100th episode which we posted last week yet? The founders Ross and Markus as well as some of our most starred guests talk about the beginnings of the Urban Political, and the urban situation then and now: urbanpolitical.online/100-looking-...
100 – Looking Back, Looking Forward – Urban Political Podcast
urbanpolitical.online
why is it that film makers /enthusiasts have a more catholic appreciation of their medium than book makers
“What data ‘is’ could be just a compressed unit of something else’s interpretive decisions or technological-mnemonic limits and shortcuts, a fact lost forever in the evolution of data ontology.” newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Nan Z. Da, Literary Criticism in the Age of AI, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How do LLMs make the step from data to inference—and what does it mean when th...
newleftreview.org
happy birth day you li ke jazz now an d wine and y ou read non fiction and are a lawyer!
I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel
Blackwell's Manchester@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · last yr.What a great night listening to @gabrielflynn.bsky.social discuss his debut novel Poor Ghost with Aidan Cottrell-Boyce. Touching on class, storytelling and Gabriel's evocative depiction of Manchester (fishing for hand grenades with magnets, anyone?). Pick up a signed copy while you can!
I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · last yr.The film The Klezmer Project, writes Sanders Isaac Bernstein, suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past. Now online from our Fall/Winter 2024 issue:
Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!
Gabriel Flynn@gabrielflynn.bsky.social · last yr.My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff. I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
Interesting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: “if you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...
Spectral analysis: Gabriel Flynn's gentrified ghouls - The Berliner
The struggling characters in the Berlin-based author's debut novel 'Poor Ghost!' are as haunted by their austere past as they are wary of Manchester's foreclosed future.
the-berliner.com
Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.
