Philly can spring.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Talking with Anton Hur — In Other Words Claudia Marzollo and Geogia Katakou speak with Anton Hur about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s Capitalists Must Starve (Tilted Axis, 2025). Anton is the author of Toward Eternity . As a translat...

We spoke with @antonhur.com about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s ‘Capitalists Must Starve’, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We loved our conversation with Anton, whose work we have admired for years! Give this one a read. 📚

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Spring in Philadelphia.

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop A quiet revolution is unfolding as women writers carve out space in the wake of an anti-feminist backlash.

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Free iPads ruined kids’ reading in Norway. Now it’s fighting back The nation’s libraries offer rollerskating, rap workshops — and, most importantly, books to reverse the decline caused by a classroom tech experiment

Look how Norway is fighting back at screens. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Congratulations!

Announcing the Winners of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction Tommy Orange was awarded a much-deserved MacArthur Genius Grant this fall for breaking from the tradition of reservation-based Native American literature to write new, illuminative, and realistic N…

Honored and humbled to be among the 2026 O. Henry Prize Winners! lithub.com/announcing-t...

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.

My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

“Vera,” said the countess, turning to her older daughter, obviously not her favorite. “How is it you have no notion of anything?” Excerpt From War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky https://books.apple.com/us/book/war-and-peace/id460819556 This material may be protected by copyright.

“I often think how unfairly life’s good fortune is sometimes distributed. Why has fate given you two such nice children (excluding Anatole, your youngest, I don’t like him),” she put in peremptorily, raising her eyebrows, “such lovely children? And you really value them less than anyone and are therefore unworthy of them.” And she smiled her rapturous smile.” Excerpt From War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky https://books.apple.com/us/book/war-and-peace/id460819556 This material may be protected by copyright.

“The count is suffering both physically and morally, and it seems you have taken care to cause him as much moral suffering as possible.” “May I see the count?” Pierre repeated. “Hm! … If you want to kill him, to kill him outright, you may see him.” Excerpt From War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky https://books.apple.com/us/book/war-and-peace/id460819556 This material may be protected by copyright.

I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is

They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout - Public Books As the entire country was plunged into a digital blackout, the only light remaining in my room was the cold, clinical glow of my disconnected laptop. There, in that forced isolation, I sat…

“In a land where intellectual property is often as unprotected as the bodies in the streets, Fernanda and I built a bridge of shadows.”

Miaad Banki writes about his experience translating Fernanda Trías’s NO SOÑARÁS FLORES during the Tehran blackout. At Public Books:

The Forgotten Cemetery A neglected North Philly graveyard. A vanished fortune. And a two-year quest to answer a single haunting question: What do we owe the dead?

This is a really beautiful story that goes places I did not expect when I first assigned it.

Angst — Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis) What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home, amid the crowd of lively cr…

"What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home ..."

Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis)
@silver-press.bsky.social

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Lost in AI translation: What’s at stake? Our humanity. Literary translation is one of humanity's most crucial tasks — one that should never be left to the machines.

Commentary: AI translation of literature should be questioned because literary translation requires human interpretation and cultural understanding that machines cannot provide.

Image of the cover of khoreo magazine issue 5.4. The cover of the magazine is an illustration of a person cocooning and turning into a moth.

Issue 5.4 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A wintry, gothic issue underpinned by disasters and dark transformations. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com

This incredible cover is by Mary Ainza 🧡

‼️ It's your last chance! Today is the ✨final day✨ to submit to ALTA's 2026 book awards and Travel Fellowships.

Find all the guidelines and submit here by the end of the day today! alta.submittable.com/submit/

Literary translator pals: a new competition, in honour of the late, great David Bellos. For unpublished samples. More details here: janklowandnesbit.co.uk/prize

#xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐

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@sevenstories.bsky.social is showing up in opposition to the war in Iran. They have put together a reading list and even are releasing Chris Hedges "A Genocide Foretold" for free.

Check out the reading list. It is comprehensive.
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Queer Korean author and translator @antonhur.com on The Banh Mi Chronicles Podcast about his debut fiction, Toward Eternity, and what he has learned as an author. We chatted about translation in literature, AI’s effects on writers, social issues, Mariah Carey, and more. Follow the podcast!

It was a joy to spotlight the Philly literary translation scene with my brilliant friends📚🖤🦅

It was a joy to spotlight the Philly literary translation scene with my brilliant friends📚🖤🦅

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

"The framing of LLMs as preserving the lives of those we have lost distracts from the lost livelihoods, and worsened material conditions, of a generation of writers on whose work the technology of LLM feeds."
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'First lines of books always feel like life and death for a translation. I must have stared and stared at this line for, cumulatively, hours.'

Fascinating to read @jencalleja.bsky.social reflect on translating four lines of 'Favorita' by Michelle Steinbeck, for @faberbooks.bsky.social.

Congratulations🖤🍾📚!

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#Belarus: We condemn the labelling of @penbelarus.bsky.social digital platform as ‘extremist materials’ and reiterate our full solidarity with colleagues in their quest to promote and protect Belarusian culture, language, and identity.

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Feeling like the world's luckiest translator to be working with Ia again, and to be read so generously by the judges, who really get the book: "Breathtakingly original, profound but with a delicious dose of irreverence" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Out in UK in mid-March, US this summer!

Presenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.

Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books