Genuine follow up question: Did Altman actually write a manifesto or did he outsource the labor to an LLM?

and the original for good measure

Por ende tal amigo • non ha como el libro • pora sabios digo • que con torpes non me libro ∴

“In sum, no friend
like a book — to the wise,
that is, and the fool
isn’t worth my rebuke”

Santob de Carrion in gorgeous letter press

Courtesy of www.letterandspiritpress.org 🥰

Three Pages of Don Quixote Here was a woman who had lived through a dictatorship, been through three marriages, and built a brilliant career in a relentlessly male-dominated field. And she was happy.

A year ago, my friend Alexandra Bellow died: a Romanian mathematician, former wife of Saul Bellow, and an extraordinary woman who was in love with Don Quixote until her very last day. I wrote this small tribute in the days just after her death.

www.guernicamag.com/three-pages-...

Maria Bartiromo is on the NYU board of trustees.

For the history of #capitalism folks, an alternative model.

These are now in my shop with better photos: payhip.com/majnouna/col...

Emily LaBarge: "Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors" Emily LaBarge examines a major theme of Chantal Akerman's film.

"One of the most astonishingly feminist characteristics of Akerman's work is, in fact, the privacy of her characters, who divulge so little." Emily LaBarge on Chantal Akerman.

People throw the words "literary event" around a lot, but this is gonna be *the* literary translation event of next year, just nothing else could compare.

Cover for the much, much waited new English translation of Grande Sertão: Veredas by Alison Entrekin. Out January 2027.

Another stunning poem by Eugenio de Andrade which shows how he was one of the greatest of the past century

In the simplest way
Tr. Alexis Levitin

It is just the beginning. Only later does it ache,
and one gives it a name.

Aquesta setmana / this week!

Pope Leo is no angel.

Viktor Orban to join Harvard Institute of Politics.

Orbán perdeu, finalmente. É uma derrota que arrasta consigo a extrema-direita que o apoiou, de Trump a Ventura. O mais difícil começa agora, num país em que o partido que foi governo por 16 anos controla tribunais, imprensa, economia. Um abraço ao povo húngaro.

To scholars of democratic backsliding, it is difficult to overstate how big a deal today's election in Hungary, a country of less than 10 million people, is likely to be as a narrative milestone for our age, regardless of which way it goes.

Melhor é não te ver. Antes ainda esquecer de que existe amor tão puro.

Enhorabuena!

eis o jobzão

New job:

Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek Literature or History

Yale University

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69957

A screenshot of a nested social media thread. ​At the top, Timothy Sylvia (@timothymsylvia) writes: "One would think a Harvard Law School clinical instructor would be able to recognize sarcasm." ​This post quote-reposts Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net), who writes: "This is legit psycho shit." ​Alejandra's post itself is a quote-repost of an interaction between two users. First, Curious Entity (@curiousentity1) writes: '"Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist"....LMAO..You add this every time'. Below that, Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) replies: "I have a keyboard shortcut." ​At the bottom of the image, replying directly to Timothy Sylvia's top post, Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) adds: "No, I literally do have a keyboard shortcut. I’m not about to type that out every time."

You couldn't torture this out of me.

Sat down for an interview with Marlene Daut for @publicbooks.bsky.social on my edition & translation of "......And the Dogs Were Silent" by A. Césaire. Always fun to talk to Marlene. Could not ask for a better interlocutor!

Cc @dukepress.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/courage-or-f...

Póster Conversatorio "La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión".

This is happening tomorrow!

At this point JD Vance probably has as much chance of becoming Antipope as President of the US.

Novidade e tradição no sistema de ensino jesuíta em Portugal, 1540-1759 Neste episódio de “A História repete-se”, Lourenço Pereira Coutinho e Margarida Magalhães Ramalho convidaram Henrique Leitão, historiador da Ciência, investigador principal do Departamento de História...

🏫 Ao longo de cerca de dois séculos, este modelo educativo foi responsável pela formação pré-universitária de milhares de alunos — um legado marcante que continua a despertar interesse e reflexão.

🔗Oiça aqui o episódio completo: t.ly/OW--j

Colonialism after Orientalism has always valued the antiquity of places like Iran or India, while devaluing its contemporary life and aspirations for the future. To define civilization in those terms is revolting. But those ancient cities are teeming with life and its myriad radical possibilities.

Apple News alert that reads: “Why more Gen Z men are turning to Catholicism, a favorite design trend that makes homes harder to sell, and more popular reads.”

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

Trump is threatening to eliminate the people of Iran overnight. Years of normalizing genocidal rhetoric and mass violence has brought us to this cataclysmic moment.

Three modes of Cavafy poetry:

Elegiac: I miss the world of Hellas

Biographical: My youth, my aging

Horny