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The War Works Hard How magnificent the war is

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The South African Pavilion Is Betraying Its Own History The same government that has held Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza must revoke its culture minister’s decision to axe the Venice Biennale performance.

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Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin is the Winner of The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Canisia Lubrin Wins Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Canisia Lubrin, professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, is the 2025 winner of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Lubrin won for her novel…

Congratulations to Canisia Lubrin, the 2025 winner of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 👏

Lubrin's novel, Code Noir, "breaks new ground in fiction," the jury said.

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The Carol Shields Prize For Fiction (@carolshieldsprize.bsky.social) The first major English-language literary award to celebrate creativity & excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the US. https://carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/

Canisia Lubrin wins the $150,000 Carol Sields Prize for her brilliant book Code Noir. So chuffed for her! carolshieldsprize.bsky.social

'I cannot guarantee complete confidentiality,' VA therapists ordered to tell veterans Mental health therapists at Veterans Affairs should begin sessions with patients saying they are in a shared office space, a memo obtained by NPR says. Trump's back-to-office orders start Monday for V...

Our VA therapists aren't allowed to text or email us anymore.
Everything we say in therapy is potentially sent to MAGA DOGE, the anti-Patriots.
I rely on the VA to survive now I need an alternative to survive. Dead vets are cheaper than alive ones.

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But he’s insulated from reality by sycophants - “you’ve got the markets seeing your brilliance” bsky.app/profile/atru...

There’s also the bit when his battered Wall Street spouses are so pathetically grateful he’s stopped hitting them that they bake him a cake

He does something stupid -> pressure -> he folds -> he forgets how bad it was -> he does something stupid… every week for four years?

Dionne Brand on José Saramago’s Seeing The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike ch…

A escritora Dionne Brand compartilha a sua leitura do "Ensaio sobre a Lucidez", de José Saramago, no podcast do portal Literary Hub lithub.com/dionne-brand...

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

sometimes the books you need come right at the time the world demands it

"If conquest, slavery and colonization of lands and people are the main aim, mythologizing and control of the imagination are the equally important conduit to this end."
—Dionne Brand, Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

in case you're thinking hey I'll move to canada please note that quebec recently froze temporary immigration, would like to deport immigrants to other provinces, and even if you qualify normally it's currently deadlocked taking three years plus

there isn't an exit to this moment

Deleted the other account. Moved this one here as well.