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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 14h

Spanish-language sources (more than Anglo ones) suggest Joyce Carol Oates could get the Nobel for Literature tomorrow. Or Mia Couto. I'd say: Krasznahorkai is a longshot, Cărtărescu a possibility, Pynchon would be delightful but likely it will be a writer I didn't even think of.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago neighbors are forming watches near schools to protect students and guardians from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42v94TN

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 17h

Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition is now available in paperback and hardcover!

André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · Jul 7

this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying

a box that says New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.

three of these boxes on a step! they say New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 2d

Both may improve.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, I don't know that one. My limited knowledge of pop culture...

StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 2d

No, no.... For those of us who have worked in Moldova (or for people who know Romania well), she's been a major figure for years.

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 4d

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WATCH: Massive Pro-Palestinian Protest in Madrid | 2 Years of Gaza War Marked with Rally | AC15

YouTube video by DWS News

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 4d

I've never watched a SuperBowl. But if the halftime show is in Spanish, I might consider it.

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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance Is Historic -- And Controversial. Here's Why

The Puerto Rican star’s recently announced Super Bowl halftime show has major social and political implications.

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Ian Hagues @ianhagues.bsky.social · 4d

@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social Book post 💕

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 5d

We love Mia's novel!

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 5d

Very proud to see this stirring piece in The Globe and Mail by my Head of School, John Walsh. It's time to shake up the torpid minds of university administrators and governments.

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Opinion: The student-as-customer model is an expensive lie that burdens Canadian universities

Postsecondary institutions shouldn’t be vendors, but instead vehicles for national productivity

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 6d

Now out in English: Mia Couto's *The Cartographer of Absences*, one of the two or three best novels in Couto's stellar career, and by far the most directly autobiographical.
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The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders

This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 7d

Donated to Wikipedia. Uncensored information matters.

Donate if you can: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_...

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 7d

One thing people fail to understand.
In 1920, there were about 15 million Jews worldwide, and about 600k Palestinian Arabs.
Zionists were confident that several million Jews would eventually migrate to Palestine, which would have made them a clear majority.
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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 8d

Funny how they're all white South Africans --"carcas," as other southern Africans call them-- nostalgic for the sledgehammer of apartheid.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 8d

The only time during which Israel could be reasonably described as a democracy was the six months period after ending the military rule over Palestinian citizens (December 66) and before imposing military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (June 67).

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 9d

The best political news of the year came down to the very hard work of Maia Sandu and her colleagues — it was not at all a sure thing, and Putin had spent at least $100 million to make it not happen

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Victory for Moldova’s pro-EU party averts a dark outcome and angers Moscow

The Kremlin spent a fortune to keep a former Soviet state from getting closer to Europe. On Sunday, it failed

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 10d

Trump may be serious about this (at least Rubio is). US interventions on the South American mainland have all failed, except for Brazil 64 & Chile 73, when the national army was onside. It's not onside in Venezuela, which would become DT's Vietnam & a regional war.

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Venezuela, America and the Specter of Regime Change

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 10d

Noroc, Moldova! Acum mergeti pâna un viitor un putin mai bine.
In a country full of older people nostalgic for the USSR and beset by Russin disinformation and vote-buying, this is a striking result for the pro-European party.
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Moldova’s pro-European party on course to retain majority in key election

PAS leads with 46% of vote in ballot that will decide whether country steers closer to EU or Russia

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 12d

One day everyone will have no idea this happened.

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US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi

Reports say PR teams are busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the help

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 13d

More evidence that we've been around a long time and should know better.

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Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 13d

A division of labour repeated on campus after campus.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13d

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · 14d

I just received an email informing me that U of #Guelph profs can enter the #CBC short story prize only if they submit a completed OR-5 form containing the signatures of their Head of Department and Dean. Welcome to the all-administration university.