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Israel has destroyed the last remaining hospital in northern Gaza. We have witnessed the total decimation of Palestinian healthcare, met with silence from political leaders who refuse to acknowledge the horrors they have enabled. This is the dehumanising reality of genocide.

1,200 days since Taliban banned teenage girls from secondary schools. 740 days since women were banned from universities. 26 days since women were banned from medical institutes. Today, Afghanistan is the only country in the world where female education is prohibited.

For each Palestinian life that should and could have been saved in Gaza, we have been put to the test. And we have failed, over and over. We must not fail again. All of us must do all we can to save Dr Abu Safiya. #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

Better late than never, my annual round up of the books that meant a lot to me this past year. Looking back at a year of reading: 2024 edition roughghosts.com/2025/01/01/loo…

This year, we inaugurate a new format: the discussion of classic masterpieces by deceased Portuguese-language authors which have been translated into English, with the presence of the translator. We aim to discuss one classic per year, starting March 2025.

frozen dew pond and moon

Doctors from around the world demand Israel release Kamal Adwan hospital director Medical professionals and social media users are rallying for Gaza's Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and appealing to the international community pulse.ly/xxhx63nagu

those hills, 7th January

I have a new essay out (it’s also a novel)

My year-9 daughter absolutely loved the afterschool course run by The Royal Institute of Philosophy. She and I can’t wait to read the book you kindly gave her. 🙏

lots happening at the dew-pond

Monthly Dispatch #20 — ft.Dr. Vik Shirley Caroline Clark, Lee Sumyeong (tr. Colin Leemarshall) Maria Zoccola cruze🆓🆙 Gabriel de Foigny (tr. Dana J. Lupo), Selen Ozturk, david c. porter (keep planning) Jérémie Wenger & more ... — is now live ... link below

My thanks to minor literature[s] and editor Joseph Schreiber for publishing this essay and giving me such a boost at the start of the year.

Find me at cclarklewes.bsky.social

My latest essay in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal on nightingales in poetry and life, and learning Russian. With disconnected footnotes on interpreting in Russian for Ukrainian refugees. Available here: poetrybirmingham.com/store/p/issue1…

Today marks the revival of The Black Herald magazine (2010-2015) in digital form with an essay by Caroline Clark Caroline Clark : In Praise of Artifice blackheraldpress.com/post/inpraiseo… Black Herald Press Open Letter Books #VeronicaForrestThomson #OlgaSedakova

Many thanks to Black Herald Press Blandine Longre P.R. Stubbs for publishing my essay on Olga Sedakova and Veronica Forrest-Thomson as they relaunch The Black Herald magazine online.