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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 5h

Adrian Boult was one of the world's leading conductors for decades. Many music lovers will want to have this collection of his complete mono recordings from 1920 to 1957. There's a full tracklist here:

www.warnerclassics.com/release/comp...

Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 6h

Dozens of federal judges say the US face a 'judicial crisis'.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 6h

Perhaps so. But until the nuclear age and the climate crisis human beings didn't have the tools for their own destruction as a species. It takes a lot longer with bows and arrows.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 7h

Here's the link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 7h

In a NY Times interview, Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, 'What We Can Know,' which looks back on our time from 2120. He thinks people then will call our era The Derangement: 'We know what to do, but we can't somehow summon the political agreement on doing it or change our selfish behavior.'

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

DOJ refuses James Comey's discovery requests, turning over a single document in a case where thousands obviously exist. Comey seeks an order, which Bondi will also defy. Then the court will draw the inference from DOJ's noncompliance that the documents show what Comey claims. Dismissal will follow.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 10h

On Reddit's Proust page, several people say they've read the book in French and warmly recommend it.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 13h

A Spanish translation was published in March by Anagrama:
www.anagrama-ed.es/libro/panora...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks, Charlotte. I look forward to reading it.

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 22h

I just finished translating this for Penguin, it's a lovely book. Out sometime next year...

Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 23h

Laure Murat's 'Proust, roman familial', which won the Medici non-fiction prize in 2023, is now available in a German translation by Jürgen Ritter. Murat explains how reading Proust helped her come to grips with her own aristocratic roots -- and to her family's rejection of her homosexuality.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 23h

Here's a review of Jürgen Ritte's translation by Dina Netz for German public radio:
www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 23h

Laure Murat's 'Proust, roman familial', which won the Medici non-fiction prize in 2023, is now available in a German translation by Jürgen Ritter. Murat explains how reading Proust helped her come to grips with her own aristocratic roots -- and to her family's rejection of her homosexuality.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 11d

'Beginnings and endings I know full well,
and life after the end, and something else
that I do not need to remember now.'

Anna Akhmatova, from 'Northern Elegies, No. 5' (1945)
Translation by Frank Beck

I'll post a translation of the entire poem in Comments.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason I'm happy that I subscribe to the London Review: podcasts like this, available to all subscribers.

Podcast: Colm Tóibín, Deborah Friedell and Thomas Jones · Novel Approaches: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James

www.lrb.co.uk

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 2d

🎉 We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2025 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose!

2025 marks the 27th year for the NTA, and the 11th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose.

View the lists here: literarytranslators.org/the-2025-nat...

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 1d

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi. Tim Snyder making things clear.

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)

Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

snyder.substack.com

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 3d

This is a really clear yet meaty interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social about the actual tactics and history of antifa movements. Will be sharing with students! www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

What exactly is Antifa? | CBC Radio

In late September, Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Today, we’re tracking the meaning and history of antifascist protest — from 1930’s Europe, to today — and asking: how ...

www.cbc.ca

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

Is it possible that right here -- in the middle of one of our worst years yet -- we have our own Cole Porter? Singer/songwriter Aron! makes me think it might be so.

aron! - a life with you (lyric video)

YouTube video by ItsAronVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

This is fascism, my friends. What will we do about it?

Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 2d

Our colleague Mark Bray and his family were mysteriously stopped at the gate on their way to Spain. Let's keep an eye out on this flight out to safer lands today.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers University anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Professor Mark Bray was trying to leave US day after White House ‘antifa’ roundtable having receiving death threats

www.theguardian.com

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

Greetings from Bethesda Fountain in New York's Central Park.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 2d

Kyiv at night,
under drone attack.

The mayor warned there may be
power and water outages
because of the strikes.

I’m charging devices
and resilience.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 2d

PEN America congratulates Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai on winning the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature. A master novelist with a singular style, Krasznahorkai’s novels buffet stories of the apocalypse with profound looks at humanity, art and beauty. www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...