Susan Bernofsky
@translationista.bsky.social
Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
"Among the 18,000 skulls and human remains stored in the basement of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris are those of Guinean anti-colonial fighters." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Guinea asks France to return skull of Bokar Biro, who led resistance against French colonization
Guinea is seeking to reclaim the skulls of the last ruler of the theocratic state of Fouta-Djallon and those of three of his close companions, nearly 130 years after their murder by French colonial tr...
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New w/ Maia Spoto and Jill Cowan: Body-camera video and court evidence show federal immigration agents using slurs and targeting Latinos in Chicago and Los Angeles. But whether the tactics are legal remains an open question now being tested in cases across the country www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...
New Evidence Shows Federal Agents Using Racial Slurs During Immigration Sweeps (Gift Article)
Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles
nytimes.com
It's official!! There's a pub date (3/16/2027), a gorgeous cover by Jamie Keenan, & I'm about to read page proofs. It's been an amazing seven years... Grateful to Peter Simon of @liveright.bsky.social If you already know you'll want a copy, please consider preordering: bookshop.org/a/97775/9780...
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann's supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally res...
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The Senate is about to vote on a measure called CORCA (hidden in the budget bill) that will give ICE/DHS *EVEN MORE* access to Flock surveillance cameras, & my senator Kirsten Gillibrand tells me she thinks "retail crime" is a bigger problem in this country than ICE's brutal gestapo tactics. 1/4
I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?"
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
thedissident.news
Just realized something about Leon Botstein, in whose employ I was from 1998-2005 as an assistant professor of German at Bard College. Three years ago, he wanted to meet with me for some reason [cont'd] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Bard’s board voted to end Botstein’s tenure as president after independent review of Epstein ties
Botstein announced his retirement on the day the results of the inquiry into his connections with Epstein were released
theguardian.com
Please join us on 2/26 at 6 PM for the English-language book launch of "Sanderling" ("Ahnen: Ein Zeitreisetagebuch") and a conversation with the author, Anne Weber, the translator @neilblackadder.bsky.social, and moderated by @tesslewis.bsky.social. Details & RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sanderling...
"Sanderling:" An Evening with Anne Weber, Neil Blackadder, and Tess Lewis
Please join us for the book presentation of "Sanderling," and a conversation among Anne Weber, Neil Blackadder, and Tess Lewis
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Y’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogues for the appendix. 1/2
BREAKING: Liron Mor declines @modernlanguage.bsky.social's 2025 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in protest of the MLA Exec Council's supporting genocide by suppressing a delegate assembly vote. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter by Liron Mor Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
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Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
Looking forward to continuing the conversation with the brilliant translationista Susan Bernofsky about The Magic Mountain, which has been going on for not quite seven years yet... www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ve...
Book Talk: Susan Bernofsky and Veronika Fuechtner on Thomas Mann - Goethe-Institut USA
Tue, 11/25/2025 – GEGENÜBER Talks – Literature Across Borders
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In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism
What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain?
thenation.com
Apropos of The New York Times's concern trolling today about Mamdani's "thin" resume, I'd like to remind everyone that Mamdani is currently serving his THIRD term in the NY State Assembly. NYT sweetheart Mike Bloomberg, by contrast, held NO office before becoming mayor.
Endorsements | Zohran for NYC
Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.
zohranfornyc.com
Did your rabbi sign that wretched letter (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) wrongly accusing Mamdani of "Delegitimiz[ing] the Jewish community and encourag[ing] and exacerbat[ing] hostility toward Judaism and Jews"?!? This letter claims that ...
The @nytimes has fallen to a new low by printing these propagandistic lies by a co-author of Trump's "compact." I'll give just one example of his newspeak: Compare this false claim (below) with the actual text of the compact (further below). nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o... 1/7
Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.
nytimes.com
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
🧵This week, New Directions will publish a collection of essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, Things That Disappear, translated by Kurt Beals, a translator for whom I have the highest respect. Since this is a book I translated chunks of 15 years ago for magazines, and since I know some of you enjoy getting
Grateful to my colleagues next door at Barnard, Professors Castelli and Callahan of the Barnard @aaup.org, and brilliant writer Jhumpa Lahiri for these clear and principled words. We all know what it means to support real freedom of speech on and off campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Opinion | Struggles for Free Expression on Campus
nytimes.com
Can you help the Ali Forney Center provide meals for unhoused LGBTQ+ kids in NYC? Just $5 buys a meal for two young people. Please pitch in if you can! serve.aliforneycenter.org/twilight-twi...
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Serve: Serve dance. Serve food. Serve love.
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I'm looking forward to this event tonight with the great Katrine Øgaard Jensen and some exciting emerging writers you'll be hearing more about soon www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/lectures-literary/writing-the-world-from-copenhagen-to-nyc/
I was so delighted to be asked to review Han Kang's new novel We Do Not Part, translated into English by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, for Korean Literature Now. It's a stunning book, beautifully translated. klwave.or.kr/klw/magazine...
As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it). Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Columbia punished our kids for protesting against the genocide in Gaza. We condemn the university’s cowardice
We are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions
theguardian.com
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Excited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only. arts.columbia.edu/events/being...
