How a Decade of Violence Transformed Colombia, and One Family

THE VIOLENCE by @aeramirez.bsky.social is reviewed in The New York Time @nytimes.com

An Unsolved Puzzle: On Identity, Silence and a Legacy of Violence in Colombia As a child, I once asked my grandmother why she did not forgive or forget, given her fierce Catholicism. We were playing cards on the bed in her large, white bedroom in Barranquilla, surrounded by …

@aeramirez.bsky.social considers her grandmother’s life though the lens of Colombia’s recent history.

Catch @aeramirez.bsky.social on tour for THE VIOLENCE. Full tour dates available on aeramirez.com

Happy Pub Day to THE VIOLENCE by Adriana E. Ramírez! @aeramirez.bsky.social

A powerful chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.

Out now from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

The 12 New Books You Should Read in April From 'Yesteryear' to 'Transcription,' these are the can't-miss books coming out this month

Adriana E. Ramírez's THE VIOLENCE & Robert Moor's IN TREES are both featured in Time Magazine's list of the best new books of the month!

@aeramirez.bsky.social @robertmoor.com

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Adriana E. Ramírez chronicles Colombia’s history by mining her own family’s - The Boston Globe Other countries have nicknames for their rough periods. But nobody is quite as direct as Colombians, who dispense with any pretensions by simply calling the decade from 1948 to 1958 exactly what it was: La Violencia.

The @bostonglobe.com calls @aeramirez.bsky.social Adriana E. Ramírez's THE VIOLENCE "novelistic, edifying and consistently entertaining" in their new review:

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/08/a...

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The Violence: My Family's Colombian War My Family's Colombian War

My friend @aeramirez.bsky.social's brilliant book The Violence: My Family's Colombian War is coming soon from Scribner bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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"Tale of upheaval and betrayal."

Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @aeramirez.bsky.social & @scribnerbooks.bsky.social!

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I wrote a book about a war that solved nothing. Or as the inimitable Cleyvis Natera put it, "a timely, critical work of nonfiction that illuminates so much of what we're living through today."

I wrote a book. It comes out April 14. It’s about useless wars and betrayal.

Also, it’s good. Like, really good.

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026 So, here are the top 94 feminist books we’re looking forward to in 2026—written by women, feminists, LGBTQ writers, writers of color, and more.

"It's being heralded as a tour de force..." @msmagazine.com highlights @aeramirez.bsky.social's THE VIOLENCE as one of the Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026!

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THE VIOLENCE | Kirkus Reviews A family’s experience is bounded and warped by the violence and instability that overtook Colombia in the last half of the 20th century.

"Drenching the family narrative with the frail complexities of love and memory, Ramírez decouples it from Colombia’s stereotypical violence to claim her own piece of its story." Read Kirkus Reviews on THE VIOLENCE by @aeramirez.bsky.social, out this April! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The US supreme court has ruled that schools must give children the chance to opt out on faith grounds from listening to storybooks that feature gay and transgender characters, in a landmark decision that will be seen as a win for religious rights in education.

Ossoff: "If we allow Affordable Care Act benefits to expire, as this bill would, more than a million Georgians will pay more for health insurance next year. A family of 4 in Clayton County making $65k a year - that's a $2,600 increase...the AJC reports 300k Georgians would lose insurance altogether"

Resentment toward imaginary poor freeloaders makes up like 90% of these people’s personalities and 98% of their politics

Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."

Some work to live, some live to work.

I work so I can spend my lunch break reading wookiepedia.

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

This morning was by far the best snow of the week in #Pittsburgh. Just after sunrise a heavy band of snow came through the city and it created some magical scenes from pretty much everywhere. I was on the West End when it started and just before the city disappeared I was able to capture this view.

It's so lovely to be back in Pittsburgh.

Jack Black, who is Bowser, is Jewish. So this tracks.

It feels impossible to think right now.

wow the parade this year was crazy

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.