Remember that time Santo Domingo got rebranded as Ciudad Trujillo?

New course launched for the next generation of creative translators |

New MSt (MA) programme in Creative Translation at Oxford! Spread the word, folks! www.ox.ac.uk/news/feature...

Just wrapped up a week of inspiring and packed seminars, conversations, and a lecture with Douglas Mao, who was in @ox.ac.uk as Astor Visiting Lecturer. Thank you to @duncanbell.bsky.social, who has co-authored Utopias with Doug, forthcoming from OUP, and who brought even more brilliance here.

Chapeau to the soul who put the Jamaican flag to cover the profusion of St George flags in the Headington Roundabout. ❤️ 🇯🇲

Shy camera

This essay is out in the world! Huge thanks to John Alba Cutler and Marissa López (editors of Latinx Literature in Transition, v2) for giving me the chance to imagine this kinship between two greats.

❤️ And now to see if we can sustain standing-room only for a whole evening in December.

Winter by the sea

Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

One of our great new titles coming out this month is "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaina Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
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The great Cristina Rivera Garza will deliver the next Richard Hillary lecture at Trinity College, Oxford (Thursday, 6 Feb). Book your tickets here: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/public-event...

Crisp morning

The ginormous carousel on Broad Street. Not sure if Oxford City Council got their tape measures out when they planned this one.

A cinematic celeriac

I suddenly have a lot of company here!

Martí at Museo Finlay, Havana

Brandenburg Tor