Please join us on 2/26 at 6 PM for the English-language book launch of "Sanderling" ("Ahnen: Ein Zeitreisetagebuch") and a conversation with the author, Anne Weber, the translator @neilblackadder.bsky.social, and moderated by @tesslewis.bsky.social. Details & RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sanderling...
So now I’ll be sending it all off to Peter Simon at @wwnorton.com to publish. It’s an enormous book (nearly 1100 pages) so it will probably be a good year before it comes out - and I cannot wait. Happy new year!!
An old photograph of a palatial sanatorium building in front of a mountain.
Y’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogues for the appendix. 1/2
BREAKING: Liron Mor declines @modernlanguage.bsky.social's 2025 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in protest of the MLA Exec Council's supporting genocide by suppressing a delegate assembly vote. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
Looking forward to continuing the conversation with the brilliant translationista Susan Bernofsky about The Magic Mountain, which has been going on for not quite seven years yet... www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ve...
In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
and most importantly, one who's truly invested in keeping our city strong and safe. I look forward to having @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social running this city.
My prediction: NYT isn't done scaremongering - I bet they're saving their direst Islamophobic headlines for Tuesday morning. Hope I'm wrong.
He'll just give some big speeches and tell us it's not so bad and go along with Trump's attacks on our city. To hell with that. I'm voting for a candidate with integrity, three solid campaign planks (that are actually completely in line with what previous mayors have done and not at all radical),
And also all these Republican billionaires are dumping big last-minute money into his campaign - that's who he'd be indebted to . So we know he would be 100% big-money as mayor. And he's already friendly with Trump, so how in the world would be protect NYC from him?
from NYC coffers (remember when he stole the $$ the State Assembly had earmarked for MTA improvements and gave them to an upstate ski resort for expansions instead?). Not to mention his lying about Covid and sexually harassing and assaulting all those women. Ugh! We don't need more of that.
on his own campaign website, because the list would be too short and/or Republican. We'll be in good hands with Mayor Mamdani. Cuomo has more experience, sure, but he's used his experience and power in all the worst possible ways, running a governorship full of cronyism, graft, and general stealing
But Mamdani does have relevant experience, and he has also surrounded himself with a team of trustworthy experienced NYC office-holders like Brad Lander. And just look at all his endorsements! (www.zohranfornyc.com/endorsements) Cuomo hasn't even published an endorsements list
Apropos of The New York Times's concern trolling today about Mamdani's "thin" resume, I'd like to remind everyone that Mamdani is currently serving his THIRD term in the NY State Assembly. NYT sweetheart Mike Bloomberg, by contrast, held NO office before becoming mayor.
Please consider asking your rabbi to take their name off the letter. This is doing so much harm, especially paired with the crazily Islamophobic campaign ads Cuomo (who'd be a godawful mayor) has been running. Please act now and pass this on! actionnetwork.org/forms/ask-yo...
anyone who sees Israel's actions in Gaza as genocidal is hurting US Jews. This is a false claim. The right will do anything in its power to keep a progressive like Mamdani from being elected mayor in NYC, including putting together this ridiculous letter and pressuring all these rabbis to sign it...
Did your rabbi sign that wretched letter (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) wrongly accusing Mamdani of "Delegitimiz[ing] the Jewish community and encourag[ing] and exacerbat[ing] hostility toward Judaism and Jews"?!? This letter claims that ...
Since the compact speaks of "units," universities will be under pressure to "save" departments by removing individuals whose presence puts these units at risk of being perceived as violating the compact. In other words, schools will self-police = the end of academic freedom.
any university that signs this compact will be in effect committing themselves to firing any faculty or staff member and expelling any student who criticizes Trump, Project 2025, or any of the attacks on American freedoms we have been seeing and will no doubt see more of. 6/7
"purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas." Any criticism of the Trump administration can be construed as "belittling conservative ideas" (note the vague formulation designed to invite a wide application). This means that 5/7
And here's what the compact itself says: "Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that [cont'd below] 4/7
"The compact does require schools not to punish, intimidate or incite violence against conservative ideas. Those are not speech restrictions. They are restrictions on the suppression of speech." 3/7
Marc Rowan's false claim in this @nytimes
piece: "Critics have charged that the compact threatens free speech. It does no such thing. It places no constraints on individual speech, nor does it intrude on academic freedom." [cont'd below] 2/7
The @nytimes has fallen to a new low by printing these propagandistic lies by a co-author of Trump's "compact." I'll give just one example of his newspeak: Compare this false claim (below) with the actual text of the compact (further below). nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o... 1/7
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
It looks like I never got around to finalizing and publishing my translation of "Memories." I guess that's just another one of those things that disappear!
You'll find my translation of "Palast der Republik" in @michiganquarterly.bsky.social (sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2019/11/...), and "Cheese and Socks", "Mietzel," "Warsaw Ghetto," and "Youth" in The Brooklyn Rail (intranslation.brooklynrail.org/german/from-...).
to compare different translations of the same work, I attach them here. I'm sure Kurt's done great things with these essays - and I'm sure his translations will differ quite a bit from mine, since we're not the same person and translations by different people always differ! You'll find my
