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adding my voice to the cacophony. these are unbelievably good.
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The haunting, extraordinary final lines of The Sea of Fertility, Mishima’s 1000-page voyage through the 20th century. My forthcoming book, Exquisite Nothingness: The Novels of Yukio Mishima, devotes 5 chapters to exploring these dark wonders of Japanese literature. Out September!
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A profoundly vague, mysterious exploration on the future of humankind & what makes us human. Under The Eye of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, wonderfully translated by Asa Yoneda was a standout in a scifi realm like no others
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Coming from @NewDirections June 2025: ndbooks.com/book/i-found-mys…
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This week in the ARB [Newsletter for 6 April 2025]: reviews, podcast announcements of fiction in translation from Japanese and Kannada, travel-writing, history, business/economics/tech mailchi.mp/0ea62b21f829/asia…
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Congratulations to Dionne Brand for winning the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Nonfiction for Salvage: Readings from the Wreck.
ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into Salvage:
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dionne-…
@bocaslitfest
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Almost time to serve…
What’re you hoping to see on the International Booker 2025 shortlist?
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no idea what’s going on with the blue readers thing, but gonna use this weird trend to hype up a blue gem of criticism written by the bluest American genie of the blue lamp
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Great books under 200 pages
30) Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba (trans. Lisa Dillman)
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It’s been an insane year for literature. Marcia Douglas’ The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive is one of the most exciting books so far. In league with Keene’s Counternarratives. Intemporal and decolonial. Prods one to live, think, read, and write more radically.
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The most recent copy of @koreanlitnow arrived last week, but I've only just found the time to give it the attention it deserves.
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Tawada’s first collection of essays in English. (June, @NewDirections)
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I couldn't resist taking advantage of today's penguin popularity to recommend a wonderful novel by @AKurkov
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High above Prague, reading bits of The Trial for the umpteenth time. I never tire of returning to Kafka’s work — it is endlessly engaging, always provoking us to find new meanings. Na Zdraví!
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Moscow killed Mike Yohansen in 1937 and banned all his books. Never expected Washington to try to kill my translation of Yohansen's best novel in 2025...
Thank you @TsurkanKate @KyivIndependent for covering the attack on @HURI_Harvard's brilliant work (story below).
Publishing literature in translation "doesn't align" with Trump's vision for America. So, Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute has lost vital federal funding that would have allowed them to bring Ukrainian classics to English readers. Read my latest.
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Thank you to @EuromaidanPress for reporting on this horrible situation. Link to the article in the next post if the thread.
@HURI_Harvard
#HURIbooks #UkrainianCulture #ukrainianliterature
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After a tangent to introduce the Rokujō Lady a couple of days back, today's Genji chapter-by-chapter post finally gets around to the events of Chapter 4, 'Yūgao', in which Genji's day in the country with a shy young beauty goes horribly, horribly wrong...
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We had to remove this post, by Hanna Bervoets, tr. by @emmarault.
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful & gripping story about who or what determines our world view.
#WITMonth #WIT #DutchLit #MediaLiteracy🧵
ALT We had to remove this post, by Hanna Bervoets, tr. by Emma Raults.
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