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Three children lost their mother.
A community lost a friend.
The world lost a poet.
All are diminished.
From 1 of her poems:
now i can’t believe—
that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”
A community lost a friend.
The world lost a poet.
All are diminished.
From 1 of her poems:
now i can’t believe—
that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”
January 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Three children lost their mother.
A community lost a friend.
The world lost a poet.
All are diminished.
From 1 of her poems:
now i can’t believe—
that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”
A community lost a friend.
The world lost a poet.
All are diminished.
From 1 of her poems:
now i can’t believe—
that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”
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Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
tinhouse.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
First book bought in 2026. I had looked for it a couple of years ago and it was hard to find. Could not resist when I saw it in a bookstore today.
January 9, 2026 at 1:09 AM
First book bought in 2026. I had looked for it a couple of years ago and it was hard to find. Could not resist when I saw it in a bookstore today.
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At least 32 people died in ICE detention in 2025, the largest death toll in 2 decades. The Guardian profiled each
"I hugged him, I tickled him on his ribs and I gave him a kiss on his cheek,” she said of their goodbye. “I never saw him again.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 1/
"I hugged him, I tickled him on his ribs and I gave him a kiss on his cheek,” she said of their goodbye. “I never saw him again.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 1/
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:32 AM
At least 32 people died in ICE detention in 2025, the largest death toll in 2 decades. The Guardian profiled each
"I hugged him, I tickled him on his ribs and I gave him a kiss on his cheek,” she said of their goodbye. “I never saw him again.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 1/
"I hugged him, I tickled him on his ribs and I gave him a kiss on his cheek,” she said of their goodbye. “I never saw him again.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 1/
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If you missed it over the holidays: I argue with the caustic Christian Lorentzen and defend the sociology of literature in a review of Gisèle Sapiro's Sociology of Literature (tr. by Ben Libman + Madeline Bedcarré) for NOVEL read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
True Pleasure
“To reduce aesthetics to the results of sales strategy is to equate the pleasure we take in reading to being duped by a marketing campaign,” one critic erringly wrote in response to Big Fiction, my Bo...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
If you missed it over the holidays: I argue with the caustic Christian Lorentzen and defend the sociology of literature in a review of Gisèle Sapiro's Sociology of Literature (tr. by Ben Libman + Madeline Bedcarré) for NOVEL read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
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A truly great writer. I’ve read two of M M Sarr’s absorbing and disturbing novels, looking forward to reading this one as well.
Editorial Fellow Alex Tan recommends Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s new novel PURE MEN from Other Press, translated by WWB contributor Lara Vergnaud. “I’ve become a lifelong devotee of Sarr’s acrobatic, border-crossing plots…” bookshop.org/p/books/pure...
Pure Men: A Novel
A Novel
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January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
A truly great writer. I’ve read two of M M Sarr’s absorbing and disturbing novels, looking forward to reading this one as well.
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Imagine being a woman writer of exquisitely realized characters in mostly ordinary human struggles and you are on the festival circuit with David Foster Wallace. bsky.app/profile/lydi...
January 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Imagine being a woman writer of exquisitely realized characters in mostly ordinary human struggles and you are on the festival circuit with David Foster Wallace. bsky.app/profile/lydi...
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This is wild. Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas t.co/ZNfTozlmUY @financialtimes.com (gift article)
January 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
This is wild. Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas t.co/ZNfTozlmUY @financialtimes.com (gift article)
300 homeless minors living on the streets of Paris as temperature goes below freezing.
Il neige à Paris, et au moins 300 mineurs en recours vont encore dormir à la rue ce soir, faute de solutions. Certains nous disent avoir trop froid pour se déplacer jusqu’aux distributions de repas. Ils n’ont qu’une toile de tente, ressenti prévu : -6°C cette nuit.
January 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
300 homeless minors living on the streets of Paris as temperature goes below freezing.
2026 will be a year where I nibble at a large number of books without having the luxury of devoting an unbroken length of time to a book, which isn't much of a reading. Today, I sampled a few pages of Miaow, a delightful Benito Pérez Galdós (the Spanish Balzac) novel.
If the start of the year is to hold any portent regarding how reading books would go this year, I read bits of Trollope (Can you forgive her?), Balzac (Père Goriot), Zola (Le Ventre de Paris), Emmanuel Bove (A Winter's Journal), Aidan Higgins (Scenes from a receding Past). The Balzac is a re-read.
January 5, 2026 at 2:10 AM
2026 will be a year where I nibble at a large number of books without having the luxury of devoting an unbroken length of time to a book, which isn't much of a reading. Today, I sampled a few pages of Miaow, a delightful Benito Pérez Galdós (the Spanish Balzac) novel.
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When you’re too extreme for Marine LePen… 1/ x.com/mlp_officiel...
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 AM
When you’re too extreme for Marine LePen… 1/ x.com/mlp_officiel...
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In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
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From Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
January 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
From Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
If the start of the year is to hold any portent regarding how reading books would go this year, I read bits of Trollope (Can you forgive her?), Balzac (Père Goriot), Zola (Le Ventre de Paris), Emmanuel Bove (A Winter's Journal), Aidan Higgins (Scenes from a receding Past). The Balzac is a re-read.
January 2, 2026 at 5:47 AM
If the start of the year is to hold any portent regarding how reading books would go this year, I read bits of Trollope (Can you forgive her?), Balzac (Père Goriot), Zola (Le Ventre de Paris), Emmanuel Bove (A Winter's Journal), Aidan Higgins (Scenes from a receding Past). The Balzac is a re-read.
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In 2025 I read a bunch of books. Here are my favourites, in no particular order...
January 1, 2026 at 10:11 PM
In 2025 I read a bunch of books. Here are my favourites, in no particular order...
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I co-wrote a book on a popular #Jain #textile #art form…and now it’s out!
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
December 31, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I co-wrote a book on a popular #Jain #textile #art form…and now it’s out!
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
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Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker. Absolutely so good, just stunning realism, amazing handling of perspective shifts, and embodies summer in the Central Valley.
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Cassandra at the Abyss
After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Isn’t everyone a little bit mentally ...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker. Absolutely so good, just stunning realism, amazing handling of perspective shifts, and embodies summer in the Central Valley.
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
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"...a white mob that, with the help of federal troops, killed hundreds of black sharecroppers in the town of Elaine, on the eastern edge of Arkansas."
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
The Elaine massacre of October 1919, writes Atul Dev, represents “a pivotal episode of American history, consigned inexplicably to the margins.” https://go.nybooks.com/4s3ui6p
‘They Killed Our People’ | Atul Dev
In the spring of 2008, at a small desk piled with papers and notebooks, Lisa Hicks-Gilbert sat spellbound in front of a laptop. After a lifetime of
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December 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"...a white mob that, with the help of federal troops, killed hundreds of black sharecroppers in the town of Elaine, on the eastern edge of Arkansas."
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
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Book rec #75: THE BLUE CLERK, by Dionne Brand. This ars poetica in 59 versos encompasses a lifetime of thinking with poetry; bearing the burden of memory and knowledge; navigating time, and history’s terrors; and reviving language at its limits. A ceaseless thirst for truth, and the heart’s renewal.
December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Book rec #75: THE BLUE CLERK, by Dionne Brand. This ars poetica in 59 versos encompasses a lifetime of thinking with poetry; bearing the burden of memory and knowledge; navigating time, and history’s terrors; and reviving language at its limits. A ceaseless thirst for truth, and the heart’s renewal.
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aw man. he was so cool
RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
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December 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
aw man. he was so cool
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Au Brésil, Lula souhaite baisser le temps de travail hebdomadaire à 36 heures sans réduction de salaires
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Au Brésil, Lula souhaite baisser le temps de travail hebdomadaire à 36 heures sans réduction de salaires
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
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Can you tell how I feel about that show?
December 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Can you tell how I feel about that show?
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i imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz
December 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
i imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz