Mircea Cărtărescu: Master of Modern Surrealism YouTube video by De Balie

1.35 hour meeting with Cărtărescu and his translator into Dutch Jan Willem Bos moderated by my Belgian friend Remo Verdickt. In English.

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Emiel Roothooft & Remo Verdickt | Een interview met Mircea Cărtărescu De Roemeense auteur Mircea Cărtărescu schreef met Theodoros een instantklassieker. Op die Nobelprijs is het nog minstens een jaar wachten, maar de Roemeen blikt zowel voor- als achteruit. In dit inter...

Emiel Roothooft en ik konden ons geen mooier begin voor 2026 inbeelden dan de publicatie van ons interview met Mircea Cărtărescu in De Nederlandse Boekengids. Mulțumesc aan Mircea en dNBg! www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20260113-emi...

5-star review of Theodoros by Remo Verdickt in De Standaard

I sat down with Coates for an interview Monday, asked him about the direction The Atlantic has taken with TCW, Chait, Jenkins etc. He gracefully steered the conversation away from personal attacks to focus on state of the press at large. He's a better man than me. @theatlantic.com you bunch of hacks

Laure Hinckel remporte le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 Porté par ATLAS, l’Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire, le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles, doté de 5000 €, a été...

Congrats to Laure Hinckel for winning Le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 for her corruscating translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros!

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Cheney: The Fatal Touch | Joan Didion It was in some ways predictable that the central player in the system of willed errors and reversals that is the Bush administration would turn out to be its vice-president, Richard B. Cheney.

“What [Dick Cheney works] to preclude is any acknowledgment that the issue at hand, whether it is avoiding military service or authorizing torture, might have a moral or an ethical or even a self-interested dimension that merits discussion.” —Joan Didion

A paperback copy of "Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon" on a wooden desktop.

Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients!

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Maybe I'm just being terribly naive here, but I wonder if this is gonna have any repercussions for Clarence Thomas' allegiance to MAGA... (excerpt from Thomas' memoir)

Not sure how you feel about this, but it sure seems like the South Park creators are secretly Adrian stans!

and ours!

About halfway through I was so numbed by all of his ridiculously tiresome monologues that I misread his comment about Charlie Kirk as Thiel saying that it was "above his gay pride." Could have fooled me...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Super interesante entrevista👇🏻

¡Muchas gracias, Daniel!

Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag I am honoured again to publish on The Untranslated an interview with Mircea Cărtărescu. Like the previous time, the interview was conducted by my Belgian friends Emiel Roothoo…

Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress

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Pretty pleased with myself about that "wolves get the last word" line :p

Bij Nobelprijswinnaar Laszlo Krasznahorkai krijgen wolven het laatste woord Laszlo Krasznahorkai is misschien wel de meest pessimistische Nobelprijswinnaar Literatuur ooit. Al veertig jaar timmert de Hongaar aan een monumentaal oeuvre waarin wel veel komma’s, maar weinig punten staan, en waarin hoop ver te zoeken is.

Tight deadline, just following the lava flow. @theuntranslated.bsky.social www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...

Jan Willem Bos did a fantastic job with Theodoros, out next week in Dutch. All eyez on u, Sean Cotter!

Deep Vellum to publish Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS in October 2026 — Deep Vellum Deep Vellum is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Theodoros , which will be published in English translation by Sean Cotter on October 27, 2026 . Originally published ...

Deep Vellum to publish Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS in October 2026

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great interview, Claudia! Something tells me that @theuntranslated.bsky.social will also publish something very soon...

James Baldwin Review vol. 11, our special issue on 'European Baldwins,' is out now!
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Read Justin Joyce's editorial preface on the American conundrum here: www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

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Thank you so much for this wonderful interview, René, and even more for your brilliant book Der Zeuge!

Feeling so honored to be part of this issue of James Baldwin Review, with an Interview on „James Baldwin. Der Zeuge“, thanks to @removerdickt.bsky.social 🙏🏾
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Cover art for JBR Vol 11, featuring James Baldwin's US passport. courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is proud to announce the publication of its eleventh volume with thanks to the extraordinary collaborative vision of three European guest editors: Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco.
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Manchester University Press - James Baldwin Review James Baldwin Review - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of James Baldwin Review by Douglas Field

The #JamesBaldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal, bringing together work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin

Volume 11 is now available to buy as a paperback bit.ly/46gAHlK

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Next up he's gonna complain about wasting $ 50 on Pynchon, only then to find out that hefty hardcover *gasp* wasn't a vindication of James Nolan Mason and Thomas Dixon Jr

Pretty sure Anthony Kennedy's just gonna kick off his book tour with a reenactment of the Brooks Brothers Riot

The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Nicholas Boggs’s “James Baldwin: A Love Story” | Los Angeles Review of Books Eric Newman speaks with Nicholas Boggs about his monumental new biography, James Baldwin: A Love Story.

Nicholas Boggs joins #LARBRadioHour to talk his new biography. “James Baldwin: A Love Story” offers an intimate portrait of the literary legend anchored by the romances that shaped his life, writing, and political vision. lareviewofbooks.org/av/nicholas-boggss-james...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.