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Happy pub day to Mariana Salomão Carrara's THE LONELIEST TREE IN THE WORLD!
✨ "Carrara makes clever use of her narrator’s birds-eye view on the family . . . An arresting exercise in naturalism." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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✨ "Carrara makes clever use of her narrator’s birds-eye view on the family . . . An arresting exercise in naturalism." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
buff.ly/oULRTHE
August 18, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Happy pub day to Mariana Salomão Carrara's THE LONELIEST TREE IN THE WORLD!
✨ "Carrara makes clever use of her narrator’s birds-eye view on the family . . . An arresting exercise in naturalism." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
buff.ly/oULRTHE
✨ "Carrara makes clever use of her narrator’s birds-eye view on the family . . . An arresting exercise in naturalism." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
buff.ly/oULRTHE
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Good piece on one of the thorniest books I've read this year strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
The Mulai by Munir Hachemi, translated by Julia Sanches
In studying the Mulai we study ourselves.
strangehorizons.com
July 14, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Good piece on one of the thorniest books I've read this year strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Spirals of Meaning: @chloroformtea.bsky.social reviews Munir Hachemi's THE MULAI, translated by Julia Sanches (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)
Spirals of Meaning: Review of Munir Hachemi’s The Mulai
Roseanna Pendlebury Under Review:The Mulai. Munir Hachemi, translated by Julia Sanches. Coach House, July 2026. Munir Hachemi’s The Mulai, translated by Julia Sanches, presents archaeologist Dr. Co…
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July 20, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Spirals of Meaning: @chloroformtea.bsky.social reviews Munir Hachemi's THE MULAI, translated by Julia Sanches (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)
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'Wild and insightful' speculative fiction translated from Spanish: The Mulai, by Munir Hachemi and trans. Julia Sanches, is out today!
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July 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
'Wild and insightful' speculative fiction translated from Spanish: The Mulai, by Munir Hachemi and trans. Julia Sanches, is out today!
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chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...
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My review of THE MULAI by Munir Hachemi, tr from the Spanish by Julia Sanches, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social:
www.sfintranslation.com?p=17053
An excellent, polyphonic novel about language, translation, history, religion, and more
www.sfintranslation.com?p=17053
An excellent, polyphonic novel about language, translation, history, religion, and more
June 3, 2026 at 2:14 PM
My review of THE MULAI by Munir Hachemi, tr from the Spanish by Julia Sanches, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social:
www.sfintranslation.com?p=17053
An excellent, polyphonic novel about language, translation, history, religion, and more
www.sfintranslation.com?p=17053
An excellent, polyphonic novel about language, translation, history, religion, and more
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‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’
We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
May 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’
We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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PANDORA by Ana Paula Pacheco, tr. Julia Sanches (@transitbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by kay kemp. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/pand...
February 2, 2026 at 2:25 PM
PANDORA by Ana Paula Pacheco, tr. Julia Sanches (@transitbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by kay kemp. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/pand...
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We're launching our second Blanket Friday today. All funds go to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We're launching our second Blanket Friday today. All funds go to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign.
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...
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"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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"The most devastating of ruling powers have always counted on superficial leniencies to prevent overwhelming dissent, manufacturing a complicity that comes in the shape of complacency..."
on The Time of Cherries
— Xiao Yue Shan
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/03/t...
on The Time of Cherries
— Xiao Yue Shan
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/03/t...
The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig (trans. Julia Sanches) — Xiao Yue Shan
Alienation was big in the twentieth century. Marx had a lot to do with it, but the despair went beyond the growing distance between labour and product—which was only the first measure in a devastat…
minorliteratures.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"The most devastating of ruling powers have always counted on superficial leniencies to prevent overwhelming dissent, manufacturing a complicity that comes in the shape of complacency..."
on The Time of Cherries
— Xiao Yue Shan
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/03/t...
on The Time of Cherries
— Xiao Yue Shan
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/03/t...
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NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
www.wired.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.
If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]
If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.
If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]
If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]
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The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session!
📍 Where: Zoom
🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET
📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]
📍 Where: Zoom
🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET
📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]
July 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session!
📍 Where: Zoom
🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET
📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]
📍 Where: Zoom
🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET
📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]
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Donate to the Sameer Project, which continues to do crucial mutual aid work in Gaza: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
And join and support upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social runs to benefit the Sameer Project. Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach a workshop:
And join and support upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social runs to benefit the Sameer Project. Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach a workshop:
Workshops — Workshops 4 Gaza
www.workshops4gaza.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Donate to the Sameer Project, which continues to do crucial mutual aid work in Gaza: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
And join and support upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social runs to benefit the Sameer Project. Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach a workshop:
And join and support upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social runs to benefit the Sameer Project. Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach a workshop:
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Melody Makeda Ledwon will receive the 2025 Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators, Words Without Borders announced today. The grant recognizes Ledwon’s translation from German of the novel Knives, Tongues by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner. Learn more here:
Melody Makeda Ledwon Awarded Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders
Melody Makeda Ledwon is recognized for her translation of a multilingual novel recovering the history of a Cape Coloured family
wordswithoutborders.org
July 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Melody Makeda Ledwon will receive the 2025 Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators, Words Without Borders announced today. The grant recognizes Ledwon’s translation from German of the novel Knives, Tongues by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner. Learn more here:
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So another one of these came today and I took a closer look. Some of its claims seem pretty wild. But they include citations in tiny print at the bottom, after an invitation to "check the facts."
So I did.
You may need to sit down for this: Andrew Cuomo is not being entirely honest!
So I did.
You may need to sit down for this: Andrew Cuomo is not being entirely honest!
June 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
So another one of these came today and I took a closer look. Some of its claims seem pretty wild. But they include citations in tiny print at the bottom, after an invitation to "check the facts."
So I did.
You may need to sit down for this: Andrew Cuomo is not being entirely honest!
So I did.
You may need to sit down for this: Andrew Cuomo is not being entirely honest!
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ChatGPT may be down, but you know what's not down? Over 4,000 pieces of literature from 147 countries and translated from 141 languages by actual people and not LLMs—and every single piece is free to read.
Just saying!
wordswithoutborders.org
Just saying!
wordswithoutborders.org
The New Words Without Borders
The Whiting Award-winning digital literary magazine Words Without Borders is the premier publication for international literature in English. Featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Fernanda Melchor, Jokha Alharthi...
wordswithoutborders.org
June 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
ChatGPT may be down, but you know what's not down? Over 4,000 pieces of literature from 147 countries and translated from 141 languages by actual people and not LLMs—and every single piece is free to read.
Just saying!
wordswithoutborders.org
Just saying!
wordswithoutborders.org
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Hey let's support these forest defenders! Every warrior is part of a web of money, care, strategy & time. People who can't be warriors for whatever reason can be part of the rest of the web www.gofundme.com/f/accsvm-oly...
Donate to Support the Olympic Forest Defenders!, organized by Henry Richards
NEW PHOTOS AND UPDATES!
May 9th Port Angeles, WA — Blockade Against Mature Fores… Henry Richards needs your support for Support the Olympic Forest Defenders!
www.gofundme.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Hey let's support these forest defenders! Every warrior is part of a web of money, care, strategy & time. People who can't be warriors for whatever reason can be part of the rest of the web www.gofundme.com/f/accsvm-oly...
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I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI.
I urge everyone to delete their app.
I urge everyone to delete their app.
Duolingo CEO says he's getting rid of contract employees and replacing them with AI
Duolingo employees can also expect their AI use to be graded in their performance reviews.
fortune.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI.
I urge everyone to delete their app.
I urge everyone to delete their app.
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NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi has been freed from detention. “We are pro-peace and anti-war,” Mohsen told a huge crowd outside court after his release.
“To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”
“To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”
BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention
'To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,' Mahdawi said after he was freed on bail.
zeteo.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi has been freed from detention. “We are pro-peace and anti-war,” Mohsen told a huge crowd outside court after his release.
“To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”
“To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”
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Whose Corner Is It Anyway has been organizing for YEARS with street-based, low-income & survival sex workers who use stimulant & opioid drugs, including safer use & Narcan trainings. Donate to them to spite RFK Jr & strengthen their movement! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon
Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway
www.gofundme.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Whose Corner Is It Anyway has been organizing for YEARS with street-based, low-income & survival sex workers who use stimulant & opioid drugs, including safer use & Narcan trainings. Donate to them to spite RFK Jr & strengthen their movement! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Maybe you have a harm reduction center in your state or region? Project Weber/RENEW is one of ours. Donate or volunteer to spite RFK Jr & save people's lives & dignity. weberrenew.org
Project Weber/RENEW
We provide harm reduction services to empower people who engage in drug use and/or sex work & those at risk for HIV & Hep C. Join us today!
weberrenew.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Maybe you have a harm reduction center in your state or region? Project Weber/RENEW is one of ours. Donate or volunteer to spite RFK Jr & save people's lives & dignity. weberrenew.org
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there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...