see also 'inosculation' in trees 😊 🌳

Unexpectedly met the avatars of the AI translation apocalypse at a dinner tonight. Reassured them that we literary translators will fight to the death 🫡

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On second thoughts maybe it was overly optimistic of me to renew my annual Berlin museums pass today?

It felt like a Friday, that's what matters Alex

the wee yin and I are all set for Artemis lift-off tonight

We are honoured to announce that ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH has been shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize! Our huge congratulations to author Ana Paula Maia and translator Padma Viswanathan, and to all the other shortlistees.

Available here: charcopress.com/bookstore/on...

So sorry Alex, I've loved hearing your stories about him. 🙏

"Israel has killed dozens of paramedics in this war. Its a pattern we've seen them carry out in Gaza, its a pattern we saw them carry out here 2 years ago, now its happening again"

Secunder Kermani reporting from Lebanon.

Renato Cisneros and Philippe Sands talk to Sophie Hughes - Hay Festival The writers and the translator discuss the question — how much are our private lives shaped by political and historical forces?

Peruvian author Cisneros (The Distance Between Us, You Shall Leave Your Land and The World We Saw Burning) reflects on inheritance, silence and identity within a family marked by power and conflict.

🎫 www.hayfestival.com/p-25260-rena...

that is quite the statement from former head of US counterterrorism

Two books in a log basket: Cartarescu’s Blinding (vol 1) and Knockan by Scottish poet Jim Carruth

Swapped all the fun of the London book fair for Highland fastnesses, but at least these two babies were waiting for me.

Setting off from Berlin for LBF. Hope to see some of you tomorrow at the translators’ gathering.
(New side gig: art courier services.)

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

The essence of my philosophy PhD thesis, reduced to a fruity portmanteau. Could have saved myself a lot of work…

I've rarely seen anyone more desperately in need of a good kicking than this cunt.

Hegseth is a maniac. Psychopathic bloodlust.

yeah, I'm being a bit sarky. It's not a sure sign someone's used the machine, but it does arouse suspicion... And hey, we've all done it!

(gentle reminder for translator friends: if you‘re using a machine to ‘help‘, remember to cover your tracks by converting those pesky 'straight' apostrophes to ‘smart’ ones... 😎)

most unglamorous

Out today! One young woman’s fractious, hopeful, attempt to give in to love. X IS WHERE I AM by Sara Torres (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy).

Get your copy at your lovely bookstore, or direct from us. Or better yet, get our 2026 Bundle and get all our books for the year! charcopress.com/bookstore/x-...

Another blow for Glasgow, on top of the loss of the CCA. No longer recognise the city that was such a cultural lighthouse when I was growing up.

@reedbrody.bsky.social : "Whatever you think of the dictatorship in Iran these strikes are a clear violation of the foundational principle of the post war legal order"

Diorama at #frannz club at the KulturBrauerei last night

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

Ending the week on a high not only because warmth has finally returned to Berlin (& rare good news from the UK), but above all because I've finally got hold of a very limited copy of @wordkunst.bsky.social's beautifully crafted new offering.

Me too. But having read Kriss quite a lot it's hard to tell if these guys are real or products of his fevered imagination...

On Earth As It Is Beneath | The Booker Prizes An unsettling novel that sets us among an isolated group of men whose bonds break down in ways both hard to comprehend and impossible to look away from

Love that we are maintaining the unbroken pattern of making the Booker list every two years... @charcopress.com
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Gotta be some clues in there somewhere... 🔍

Swa leng, swa wyrse...

this is fabulous