Botstein still has a job.
09.03.2026 23:02
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Botstein still has a job.
yeah, this is absolutely disgusting and actively puts Jewish Americans at risk.
also it's genocide denial. which Jewish people used to think was bad.
(wait I got my timeline wrong, Deserters was Charlotte’s return… but still! A treat!!!)
Primeval finally coming back in print AND @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social’s return as Enard’s translator?! We are so, so back
*** ALL HANDS *** ALL HANDS ALERT 08:00 AM * RENSSELAER, NY Feb. 13 2026 Chestnut St., Rensselaer, between 5th Street and 6th Street. Meet here. Bring your whistles and your voice! At least 2 confirmed vehicles are present with at least 5 ICE agents seen near 20-50 Chestnut Street, Rensselaer NY. Confirmed ICE Vehicles present -KBW8495 Ford Expedition Black Confirmed ICE - LKG8526 Nissan Maxima Silver @518crsc
Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College
Every second he is still in the presidency is an abomination. Come on @bardcollege.bsky.social
Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939
last year’s sticker was a pizza Statue of Liberty, the 10-year old who drew it came to the bookstore campaigning for it
many such cases!
Y'all, we did it. 💕 This crew of chaotic nerds has sent half a million whistles to people requesting them, for free. With your help!
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Miriam* fled enslavement in Mauritania in a heroic middle of the night escape - she found out she was pregnant with her enslaver’s 5th child here. Denied schooling she is illiterate. Today she lives in fear of being targeted by ICE. I’m raising money for her. Venmo is @Heba-gowayed.
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
I’ve been thinking a lot about this part from MLK’s Letters from Birmingham Jail; how so many “good” white people don’t want to think about race, don’t want to think about politics, don’t want to work for justice, and all the harm that negative peace has done
Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality … Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
@littlepuss.net & @twodollarradio.bsky.social y’all have a fan here at Inquiring Minds
I could not even fathom a reason why a governor of a very blue state with pockets of red would be against measures to combat book bans. www.nyclu.org/press-releas...
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screenshot of letterboxd review: nmintz Uncut Gems 2019 Rewatched Jan 2, 2026 Adam Sandler was 53 in this movie, which was set in 2012, so Howie was roughly 60, which means he was born in 1952... RIP Marty Supreme, Jr.:(
Martin MAUSer and Howard RATner… c’mon
2-star letterboxd review of Hamnet: “Has all the trappings of profundity, but ultimately not much of anything to say”
if only there were a well-known and oft-cited line from Shakespeare to express this sentiment
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE Bodies Found in Various Places, by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House) (Poetry) Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions) (Nonfiction) Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, by Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli (City Lights) (Poetry) Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories) (Fiction) Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen (Biblioasis) (Fiction) Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories) (Nonfiction)
2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, (NYRB) (Fiction) The Ruins, by Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li (Deep Vellum) (Poetry) The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions) (Fiction) Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press) (Nonfiction) We Do Not Part, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth) (Fiction) Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth (Archipelago) (Poetry)
2025 BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLIST COMMITTEE Tobias Carroll Mandana Chaffa Isabella Corletto Adam Dalva Frances Evangelista Rebecca Hussey Andrea Lingenfelter Idra Novey Mira Rosenthal Defne Saricetin Alina Stefanescu Hannah Weber Liz Wood
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
Graphic reading FREEDOM TO READ ACT READ-IN Join us in urging Governor Hochul to sign the Freedom to Read Act, ensuring our schools are protected from library censorship! Monday Dec. 8 3:30 pm Union Square 17th Street logos along the top for Teen Activist Project, Authors Against Book Bans, American Booksellers Association, and Pen America.
New Yorkers, did you know Gov. Hochul could sign into law protections for school libraries any time she cares to? We don't need to wait. Let her know you want this done now.
Come to Union Square on Monday and join me, @authorsabb.bsky.social and other orgs to remind her what's sitting on her desk
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Brick building bookstore in the snow
Interior of a bookstore with the lights off, snowlight coming in
Snowy village street corner as seen from under the bookstore awning
definitely should not have commuted in a blizzard but at least it was cozy at the store
