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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person. https://linktr.ee/hararereviewofbooks 📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc (Incidentally, also @shonatiger.bsky.social)
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 8d
Harare Review of Books, August 2025

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Harare Review of Books, August 2025
Hiya! Where did September go??
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 14m
Nobel prize in literature 2025 as it happened: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ www.theguardian.com/books/live/2...
Nobel prize in literature 2025 as it happened: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
Nobel academy cites Hungarian novelist for work that ‘in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 54m
The Mad is out already btw, from Zimbabwean Publisher Carnelian:

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Photo of a paperback on patterned African fabric. Cover is a painting of a colourful street scene somewhere in Zimbabwe: there are "Vote ZANU PF) posters with Robert Mugabe's face on them. There are two figures conversing in the foreground, and a fruit vendor nearby.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 3h
Keeping a keen eye // UGA Press Announces African Language Literatures in Translation Series | ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/u...
UGA Press Announces African Language Literatures in Translation Series
New series is devoted to making remarkable writing from Africa available to Anglophone audiences around the world
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 16h
Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 7h
What's your favourite 1984 cover?
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 16h
Everything's awful
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 16h
Anyway. Finish some books.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · Apr 24
Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others.

Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!

go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL
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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 1d
In which @casella.bsky.social and I both discuss novels of two halves, and in which Nileena Sunil and @yarntheory.bsky.social both sing the praises of @indrapramitdas.bsky.social.

This would be impressive co-working with @mealofthorns.bsky.social had we done any actual co-working.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 1d
SFinTranslation.com
#SFinTranslation

Because why read books from just one language?
Speculative Fiction in Translation – Your guide to speculative fiction from around the world
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 1d
For @thesundaylongread.bsky.social recently:

The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura
By Tierno Monénembo & Translated by Ryan
Chamberlain

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The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura By Tierno Monénembo & Translated by Ryan Chamberlain Véronique Bangoura, we learn, goes on daily jaunts in Paris with her wheelchair-using husband, and on one of those meets Madame Corre. It turns out Corre recognized the language she heard Véronique speak on the phone as originating from Guinea, and she wants Véronique to tell her story-why she's in Paris, and how she came to be (as Madame Corre mistakenly believes) a personal care assistant to the man in the wheelchair. Madame Corre has her own painful history to share, and suspects Véronique does too. And it is indeed from this shared place of pain that the women begin to bond--and even to understand one another across their seeming divide. The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura tells of the atrocities that happened in Guinea under dictator Sékou Touré from 1956 to 1982. After my initial struggles with style, I began to enjoy the rhythm of this work and Véronique's singular voice. She's the survivor of a complicated past, who through a series of unlikely events has escaped to that place in exile where she encounters Madame Corre-a woman whose own past shares unlikely parallels with Véronique's. All stories of political turmoil make more sense to us on a human level, and in this emotional and moving retelling of the brutality of Touré through the lives (and many deaths) of Véronique and Madame Corre, Tierno Monénembo brings what would otherwise be a distant news story and past history to the present experience of the reader. Excellent and memorable
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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 1d
Please repost far and wide

Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine is calling for a workplace Stand Out for Gaza:

📅 Thursday 16th October 2025
🕐 during lunch (or other break)
📍 outside your workplace

Wherever you work, any sector any job, talk to your colleagues about a Stand Out for Gaza.
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 1d
Sting’s often mocked but few pop writers have turned song into poetry with such grace.
From Nabokov to Jung, Eliot to Shakespeare, he weaves philosophy and literature through melody and soul.
Read The Poetry of Sting ↓
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The Poetry of Sting
The Police and solo star's lyrical ouevre examined under James Hartley's smudged microscope for traces of poetry.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 1d
#KnowYourAflit

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1d
Another fun Mozart fact is that he wrote music for an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin.
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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 1d
Here's my English translation of the twenty-fifth Nahuatl poem in the codex SONGS OF THE LORDS OF ANAHUAC (known by its Spanish title "Romances de los señores de la Nueva España").
No One Will Remain
The twenty-fifth cuicatl in Songs of the Lords of Anahuac, my English translation of the codex Romances de los señores de la Nueva España.
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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 1d
Jules Verne was still alive when Georges Méliès made the movie A Trip to the Moon.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d
A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day
You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d
"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'"

Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:

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Surgery with a Shotgun: Why Genres Matter
Categories are made up. They will always be nothing more than an approximation of the thing itself. Nothing as simple as a label can encompass the experience, the reality, and the nuance of any indivi...
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Don't miss out! You've got till midnight tonight, Wednesday 8 October, to get your entry in to win this great swag of books in our second Spring Giveaway.
#BookGiveaway
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Attn Australian book fans! Our 2nd spring giveaway is now on, and you could win this fab bundle of books by Samantha Byres, Murray Middleton, Gretchen Shirm, & Katharine Pollock. Entries close midnight TONIGHT Wed 8 Oct 2025.
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Image of covers of books Dead Ends by Samantha Byres, U Want It Darker by Murray Middleton, Out of the Woods by Gretchen Shirm and Starry Eyed by Katharine Pollock, featured in the Newtown Review of Books 2025 Spring Giveaway #2.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection
‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection
As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too
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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social · 1d
Same opinion of writers who talk about how we need to adapt.

Look, my brain is not short of story ideas.

And frankly, most stories, at their core, are not original.

So if you are using AI, what are you bringing to the table that I haven’t already read before?
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d
If I ran a consulting firm, I'd be yelling as loudly as I could that we will never use LLMs in lieu of the work of our experienced, talented, brilliant people. If a consulting firm's work is so shitty that it can be replaced with an LLM, then they should go out of business as soon as possible.
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · Nov 11
Hi everybody. We're a Madrid, Spain, based literary magazine. We publish in print and online. Right now Issue 2 is free to read and download from www.themadridreview.com
Writers, poets, readers, artists: follow us and we'll follow you. Nice to be here! #litmag #literature #writers #poets #poetry
The Madrid Review
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 1d
In 2019, I was interested in reading ORLANDA by Jacqueline Harpman. In it, part of a woman's consciousness takes over a man's body. I was writing a novella about people swapping bodies (since published, now out of print). Anyway, I finally have a copy and am reading it. Translated by Ros Schwartz.
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