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“Melancholia is the more painful and elusive psychological experience [than grief] because the melancholic does not know what even if they know whom they have lost. Melancholy is characterised by a strangely absent sense of absence; the melancholic is absorbed by an enigma.”

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i’m sorry to learn the great Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes has died. what an amazing body of work he has left

"something about the ‘everything-and-nothing’ of fascism...carries itself over into the precise character of manic protest, which takes aim everywhere and nowhere all at once."

– Simon Wortham on fascism and the work of Irmgaard Keun, today at @minorliteratures.bsky.social

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagiarism for her second. Banned by the Nazis ..."

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Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"Keun is the great chronicler of the mania that transpires when grief is in want of an object. She is also, and in other words, the great chronicler of fascism."

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

She Who Remains Though the International Booker Prize longlist contains a number of well-known names, it also features writers appearing in English for the first time. She Who Remains (translated by Izidora Angel)…

Another #InternationalBookerPrize2026 review, Rene Karabash's She Who Remains, translated by Izidora Angel and published by Peirene Press:
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Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Or you can save yourself billions and turn it all off.

So, I had cataract surgery yesterday and I removed the left lens from my glasses while I await surgery on the other eye and bought reading glasses which I'll need for a few months. OMG! Now I can actually read the print in the books I've been struggling with. It's like magic!

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

"a nothing here, so absolute it’s like waves, automated
-collapsing-gone-backagain-repeat ..."

Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social

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Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

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The Wax Child Olga Ravn’s first novel to be translated into English, The Employees, is set in the 22nd century and features such science fiction staples as androids and spaceships; her second, My Work, is a more…

My first #InternationalBookerPrize2026 review is Olga Ravn's The Wax Child, translated by Martin Aitken:
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Snow covered path descending through forest toward sunlit trees.

Further along same path, more of the sunlit trees visible.

At the bend in the trail, sun now hitting trees to the right.

Open, snow covered field with bare trees, fir tree covered slope in the distance, in bright sunlight.

Fresh snow and sunshine brightens a bleak world.

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Over the next few months we will re-introduce you to thought-provoking excerpts from our groundbreaking essay collection #riverinanocean

Today, we begin with @jobitek.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social & Lisa Ndejuru

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Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa The lights on the bridges have no end My nights are full of them I will remember the lights even in the face of death – from “Theatre”  (1996) In recent years, Seagull Books has been bringing the w…

ICYMI I wrote about this collection by cult Hindi poet, the first translation of his work into English by @saudaminideo.bsky.social
Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa roughghosts.com/2026/02/26/e...

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

"Deep within the well of language is this monstrous drive which is present within the images, the phantasms which function as the supplement for the object."

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — @mwtempleton.bsky.social

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — Michael Templeton minorliteratures.com/2026/02/26/a...

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa The lights on the bridges have no end My nights are full of them I will remember the lights even in the face of death – from “Theatre”  (1996) In recent years, Seagull Books has been bringing the w…

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa, translated by Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social
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Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa The lights on the bridges have no end My nights are full of them I will remember the lights even in the face of death – from “Theatre”  (1996) In recent years, Seagull Books has been bringing the w…

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa, translated by Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social
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"My skin sucked no emotion from what we saw, but as we escaped it, like tourists, I felt absolutely elated to know none of us would ever work downtown."

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

"This is for sure a decadent time and thus a decadent book. The 2020s feel like a new kind of decadence."

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice — Danny Elfanbaum minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...

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ICYMI i was in Minor Lits this week 😎

Billy Sticks — Des Barry Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...

— @kentkosack.bsky.social on reading and vision

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— an extract from KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social

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— new fiction from @farsouthproject.bsky.social

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Billy Sticks — Des Barry Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…

"My mother grabbed me and tried to smother me for Da was caught short with his fingers in the till ... She forced the pressure on me face to catch and cut off the breath of me life ..."

Billy Sticks — @farsouthproject.bsky.social

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