Tessera
Folgen

Matthew Turner

@thewalkingfool.bsky.social

Author of the novel SWEDEN (2018), translator, traveller on foot, Japan lover, jazz buff, albatross watcher, Ōtautahi resident. *Not* a photographer.

1092 Posts464 Follower290 Folgt
Evan Williams@pahoehoe.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s hard to amplify a new book when there are so many good ones to be read! But the story collection Lake Effect, by Hillary Behrman, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize at @Sarabande, deserves your attention. Easily my top read of 2026. Stunning.

The cover of Lake Effect by Hillary Behrman
Te Herenga Waka University Press@thwupbooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

Someone will write a cover letter with AI, then an AI will assess all the cover letters, then the AI will send them an interview, and a lot of times the interview will be conducted with AI – so where are we in this machination?' pip adam on the context for kluge www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Pip Adam on her new novel kluge

While writing her latest novel on a dystopian world, badly behaving tech billionaires, and artificial intelligence, Pip Adam's writing took a turn.

rnz.co.nz

Awai Books@awaibooks.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thank you, Asian Movie Pulse, for covering our next release: “Awai Books Announces First English-Language Biography of Masao Adachi” William Andrews’s (@william-andrews.bsky.social) Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw is out Sept 1. #BookSky asianmoviepulse.com/2026/08/engl...

First English Biography of Masao Adachi Set for Release

Awai Books will release William Andrews’ first English-language critical biography of radical filmmaker Masao Adachi on September 1. Awai Books Announces First English-Language Biography of Masao Adac...

asianmoviepulse.com

Photography by Alfie Goodrich@alfie.photography · 6d ago

Davidsons ten days he spent photographing in the Ebbw Valley area of Wales in 1965 is his best work imho. And how I discovered his work. Biased, because I know that area. But nonetheless, it’s a supremely crafted body of work.

Bertrom.@bertrom.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bruce Davidson. “I was free to encounter life. I was open and didn’t have any agenda. There was a certain sense of sky and fog, of another place. That’s why those pictures are delicate – and I was delicate too”.

Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · last wk.

Yuko Tsushima's Territory of Light (translated by Geraldine Harcourt) is presented as something like a diary of a woman’s first year alone with her daughter after leaving her deadbeat husband behind.

Territory of Light: A Novel

From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth“Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” —Foumiko ...

bookshop.org

Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · last wk.

Yuko Tsushima (1947-2016) was among the first Japanese women to write about life as a single mother, an experience she knew as both a single mother and daughter of a single mother. Virtually all of her work addresses marginalized people, especially women, who have been somehow abandoned. #witmonth

A black-and-white photograph of Yuko Tsushima. She is smiling into the camera, teeth showing, while standing on a lawn in front of a large tree. She looks genuinely cheerful. She's swearing a sweater embroidered with what look like tiny spaceships, stars, and moons, as well as glasses with invisible frames attached to a chain necklace. She has short, dark hair that, despite her age, has very little gray in it.
Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · 3w ago

#womenintranslationmonth begins August 1, and RJL is psyched! Every day in August, we'll be posting a short bio of a Japanese woman writer* who takes up feminist themes in her stories. Stay tuned for an August episode on Japanese Women Writers.* readjapaneseliterature.com/Book+lists/J...

A list title card for "Japanese Feminist Writers". Photos are in columns. Right top to left bottom: Yumiko Kurahashi, Saou Ichikawa, Kaho Nakayama, Taeko Kono, Takako Takahashi, Harumi Setouchi, Nobuko Yoshiya, and Mieko Kawakami.
Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · 2w ago

Beauty in Disarray (translated by Sanford Goldstein and Kazuji Ninomiya) is Setouchi's biographical novel about Ito Noe (1895-1923), Japanese anarchist, social critic, author, and feminist who founded Seito (Bluestocking) magazine before she was murdered by the military police.

Beauty in Disarray

Setouchi was eminently qualified to write this historical novel on women's liberation in Japan, which had its roots in sexual politics, socialism, and anarchism, movements in decline following the fam...

bookshop.org

Mike Dickison@adzebill.bsky.social · 2w ago

Visited the delightful Custard Square Bookshop in Christchurch (all books $5!), took some photos, created it in Wikidata, and set up a category in Commons. Tony was chuffed to hear I might be able to put together a Wikipedia article too.

Wikimedia Commons category for the Custard Square Bookshop at the Arts Centre in Christchurch.
Eleanor G@zaichishka.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you're at a loose end in Auckland tomorrow and interested in Japanese culture, come along to the NZ-Japan Society of Auckland's Japanese cultural festival, Kia Ora Japan. My tea group, Aoteakai, will be demonstrating tea ceremony in 3 sessions, at 11.00, 12.30 and 13.30.

Poster for Kia Ora Japan! Join us as we celebrate Japanese culture and food. Saturday 8 August 2026 10am-2.30pm Gracecity Church, 17 Marewa Rd, Greenlane (near the Greenlane Woolworths)Kia Ora Japan! Music performances at 10.30am and 12.30pm Tea ceremony at 11.00am, 12.30pm, and 1.30pm Workshops at 11.30am and 1.30pm Food stalls all day