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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 10d

'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 · 5h

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 · 1d

🎉 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 · 6h

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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

Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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...

László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in literature

The Hungarian writer, known for his apocalyptic works, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.

www.npr.org

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Found this at the library. The author dedicated his little book "To the Jews of Knyszyn, Poland."

Paperback book by Mark Bray, who teaches history at Rutgers University.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

next.frame.io

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

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

Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded later today. Here are four leading contenders for the prize, according to El País.

Who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Enrique Vila-Matas are the bookmakers’ favorites

english.elpais.com

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday (October 8) was Tsvetaeva's birthday. Here is one of her best known poems, set to music with English subtitles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkTD...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Please make that: 'Hers is the one I knew first . . . '

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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 · 3d

A wonderful piece by B.A. Charles, focusing on Charlotte Mandel's new translation of the second volume of 'In Search of Lost Time': 'In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom', which I warmly recommend. I don't think any English translator has brought us closer to Proust's own diction and tone.

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

lithub.com

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

An eight-hour celebration of the words and music of Stevie Wonder -- at New York's Symphony Space on November 8.

Wall to Wall Stevie Wonder

Symphony Space is a performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan offering theater, film, literature, music, dance and family entertainment. Our mission is to connect art, ideas, and comm...

www.symphonyspace.org

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a musical setting of the Russian poem:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkTD...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

Here's is the one I knew first, many years ago, so I have an affection for it. But I wanted English-speakers to be aware of Schmidt's translations of 20th-century Russian poets, too Best of all, of course, is to hear the poem in Tsvetaeva's own language.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

You might enjoy this musical setting of Tsvetaeva's poem 'Homesickness' by the group Poetic Oasis. The poet was born on this date in 1892:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkTD...

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