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It's pretty sad what's happening to some #Newfoundland #food producers, given that NL is so (overly) dependent on imported food. It's pretty crazy that there isn't a more organized system to support food producers #agriculture
www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...
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NL farm on the brink of closure turning to community for help through meat share program
Portugal Cove-St. Philip's Windy Heights Farm is hoping a meat share campaign can help save it after a $130,000 loan called in
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November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's pretty sad what's happening to some #Newfoundland #food producers, given that NL is so (overly) dependent on imported food. It's pretty crazy that there isn't a more organized system to support food producers #agriculture
www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...
www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...
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It was a pleasure to work on these four beautiful magazines and collaborate with the many diverse individuals and institutions we worked with in 2025. We hope you'll pick up a copy, share with your friends, and support our work nurturing literary communities across the world.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It was a pleasure to work on these four beautiful magazines and collaborate with the many diverse individuals and institutions we worked with in 2025. We hope you'll pick up a copy, share with your friends, and support our work nurturing literary communities across the world.
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A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
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November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Very happy for Greyhound to be stocking-stuffer material!
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A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Very happy for Greyhound to be stocking-stuffer material!
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Fela Kuti: Fear No Man by Higher Ground & Audible: Host: Jad Abumrad:
Feel Kuti: “Fear No Man is an uncategorizable mix of oral history, musicology, deep dive journalism, & cutting edge sound design that takes listeners deep inside Fela’s life, music, & legacy.”
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Feel Kuti: “Fear No Man is an uncategorizable mix of oral history, musicology, deep dive journalism, & cutting edge sound design that takes listeners deep inside Fela’s life, music, & legacy.”
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Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
Society & Culture Podcast · Series · In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do?
Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed?
In Fela K...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man by Higher Ground & Audible: Host: Jad Abumrad:
Feel Kuti: “Fear No Man is an uncategorizable mix of oral history, musicology, deep dive journalism, & cutting edge sound design that takes listeners deep inside Fela’s life, music, & legacy.”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Feel Kuti: “Fear No Man is an uncategorizable mix of oral history, musicology, deep dive journalism, & cutting edge sound design that takes listeners deep inside Fela’s life, music, & legacy.”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
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"Au’s calm, unrelenting focus would be hard to take over a longer book – but this novella is graceful and precise. Like the narrator fine-tuning the aperture on her Nikon camera, Au seems to say, we have to choose our scale, what we pay attention to.
— Imogen Dewey, The Guardian
— Imogen Dewey, The Guardian
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Au’s calm, unrelenting focus would be hard to take over a longer book – but this novella is graceful and precise. Like the narrator fine-tuning the aperture on her Nikon camera, Au seems to say, we have to choose our scale, what we pay attention to.
— Imogen Dewey, The Guardian
— Imogen Dewey, The Guardian
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"A powerful novel about the relationship between a mother and daughter, and the ways that geography, language, art, travel and migration can change the ways we see ourselves….a hazy, dream-like mirage, in which characters, emotions and intentions are ever-so-slightly out of reach.
— Frieze
— Frieze
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"A powerful novel about the relationship between a mother and daughter, and the ways that geography, language, art, travel and migration can change the ways we see ourselves….a hazy, dream-like mirage, in which characters, emotions and intentions are ever-so-slightly out of reach.
— Frieze
— Frieze
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"Au’s writing ebbs along effortlessly and poetically.
— The Australian
— The Australian
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"Au’s writing ebbs along effortlessly and poetically.
— The Australian
— The Australian
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"Quiet and crisp like a clear winter morning…a world of melancholy and dissolving identity.
— Shane Anderson, 032c
— Shane Anderson, 032c
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"Quiet and crisp like a clear winter morning…a world of melancholy and dissolving identity.
— Shane Anderson, 032c
— Shane Anderson, 032c
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"Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.
— Edouard Louis
— Edouard Louis
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.
— Edouard Louis
— Edouard Louis
Cold Enough For Snow
Fiction by Jessica Au
"Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, Cold Enough for Snow, is an elegant & subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to Tokyo: they walk along the canals."
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Fiction by Jessica Au
"Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, Cold Enough for Snow, is an elegant & subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to Tokyo: they walk along the canals."
www.ndbooks.com/book/cold-en...
Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au | New Directions
Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, Cold Enough for Snow, is an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to Tokyo: they...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Cold Enough For Snow
Fiction by Jessica Au
"Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, Cold Enough for Snow, is an elegant & subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to Tokyo: they walk along the canals."
www.ndbooks.com/book/cold-en...
Fiction by Jessica Au
"Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, Cold Enough for Snow, is an elegant & subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to Tokyo: they walk along the canals."
www.ndbooks.com/book/cold-en...
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"A roundtable on translation, community, and the work that connects us, with the editors of the Best Literary Translations 2025."
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BOMB Magazine | Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, and Kọ́lá…
A roundtable on translation, community, and the work that connects us, with the editors of the Best Literary Translations 2025 .
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November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"A roundtable on translation, community, and the work that connects us, with the editors of the Best Literary Translations 2025."
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bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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You are talking Dionysus
All new moon pupils and Pop Rocks dissolving snap-cracking
on the shelf mushroom…
—“Two weeks later I will still be thinking about your mouth” by Zoë Johnson in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/24/t...
All new moon pupils and Pop Rocks dissolving snap-cracking
on the shelf mushroom…
—“Two weeks later I will still be thinking about your mouth” by Zoë Johnson in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/24/t...
Two poems by Zoë Johnson
Part of a series of Native poetry collected by Mark Turcotte. Your kitchen is transfigured, is wild rice soup and Lil Nas X Your porch, a portal, re-applying lipstick between each press to cigarett…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You are talking Dionysus
All new moon pupils and Pop Rocks dissolving snap-cracking
on the shelf mushroom…
—“Two weeks later I will still be thinking about your mouth” by Zoë Johnson in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/24/t...
All new moon pupils and Pop Rocks dissolving snap-cracking
on the shelf mushroom…
—“Two weeks later I will still be thinking about your mouth” by Zoë Johnson in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/24/t...
My Night at Maud's (1969) Trailer | Director: Éric Rohmer
"My Night at Maud’s, Six Moral Tales series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis."
Director: Éric Rohmer
Writer: Éric Rohmer
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
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"My Night at Maud’s, Six Moral Tales series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis."
Director: Éric Rohmer
Writer: Éric Rohmer
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
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My Night at Maud's (1969) Trailer | Director: Éric Rohmer
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November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My Night at Maud's (1969) Trailer | Director: Éric Rohmer
"My Night at Maud’s, Six Moral Tales series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis."
Director: Éric Rohmer
Writer: Éric Rohmer
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD7O...
"My Night at Maud’s, Six Moral Tales series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis."
Director: Éric Rohmer
Writer: Éric Rohmer
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
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"The magic trick of these films is the way they defy the Newtonian laws of story: nothing happens, and you’re never bored—propulsion but no engine."
Jacob Stern on Richard Linklater’s two latest films, "Nouvelle Vague" and "Blue Moon": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-history-hangs-out/
Jacob Stern on Richard Linklater’s two latest films, "Nouvelle Vague" and "Blue Moon": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-history-hangs-out/
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"The magic trick of these films is the way they defy the Newtonian laws of story: nothing happens, and you’re never bored—propulsion but no engine."
Jacob Stern on Richard Linklater’s two latest films, "Nouvelle Vague" and "Blue Moon": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-history-hangs-out/
Jacob Stern on Richard Linklater’s two latest films, "Nouvelle Vague" and "Blue Moon": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-history-hangs-out/
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Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social:
www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...
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Day #1144, #1167, #1403
Fiction
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June 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Read an excerpt of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume Book III (out November 18) in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social:
www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...
www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...
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Read @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social’s marvelous interview of translator Hisham Matar and photographer Diana Matar, who worked together on Naguib Mahfouz’s dream book I FOUND MYSELF, in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
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Finding Ourselves in Naguib Mahfouz’s Last Dreams: An Interview with Hisham and Diana Matar - Chicago Review of Books
When awarding the acclaimed Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006] the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the Swedish Academy noted how “through works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic,...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Read @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social’s marvelous interview of translator Hisham Matar and photographer Diana Matar, who worked together on Naguib Mahfouz’s dream book I FOUND MYSELF, in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/25/f...
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/07/25/f...
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On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
September 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature--
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
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'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.' @publisherswkly.bsky.social gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale: www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
In this captivating and capacious novel from Stepanova (In Memory of Memory), a 50-year-old novelist experiences a bizarre and l...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.' @publisherswkly.bsky.social gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale: www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
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By way of water (2025)
A large-scale public sculpture by Ayobami Ogungbe
A large-scale public sculpture by Ayobami Ogungbe
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
By way of water (2025)
A large-scale public sculpture by Ayobami Ogungbe
A large-scale public sculpture by Ayobami Ogungbe
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Ten years before Nigeria’s civil war, an expat academic waved the flag for African writing by launching the Black Orpheus journal. From 1957 to 1967, Ulli Beier united a clamour of voices in different tongues, bound beneath strikingly graphic covers.
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/black-...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/black-...
How Black Orpheus magazine shaped modern African literature
The 1960s periodical Black Orpheus united authors behind strikingly graphic covers. Now, its entire archive is available to view online
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November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Ten years before Nigeria’s civil war, an expat academic waved the flag for African writing by launching the Black Orpheus journal. From 1957 to 1967, Ulli Beier united a clamour of voices in different tongues, bound beneath strikingly graphic covers.
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/black-...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/black-...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Red bus. #SPi_travel #Londres #London #igerslondon #igersEngland #travel #igers #Christmas #Xmas #england #uk #City #BlurredMotion #leica #leicacamera #LFIgallery #myleicaphoto #leicam10 #summicron35 #street #streetphotography #SeeTheWorld #womeninstreet #thestreetphotographyhub #Streetphotographers