“Taking care of working-class histories also means reclaiming the transformative power of writing…” Veronica Gisondi reports from a factory-turned-literary front line—where literature is collective care, not commodity: tinyurl.com/3y729ptd

In case you want to take a workshop with me or any of my fabulous colleagues. Registration opens tomorrow am. eventbrite.com/e/2025-summer-…

“They wanted to know why the work of ‘the greatest Italian author after Pasolini’s death’ was no longer available in English.” Claudia Durastanti on Vittorio Tondelli. theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05/3…

If we ignore AI will it just go away? It's so boring

IYKYK but you don’t wanna

Cristina Campo, "The Unforgivable" (tr. Alex Andriesse)

More Vitaliano Trevisan via me thanks to Daniele Pantano and The Lincoln Review

“to tell the truth, I love being slapped like this by guys like Mattioli” don’t we all ❤️ Valerio Stivè Fantagraphics Adrian Nathan West

Just what we need, more international books, and faster! We can get the robots to read them too. What a relief no one will have to bother with learning foreign languages or cultures anymore.  theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

"There’s no accounting for posterity, but between the covers of his own books, the artist reigns supreme." ⤵️

ANNOUNCING! A landmark new series from Chowringhee Press. Interviews with 100 translators around the world, working in and out of 60 different languages. In 5 volumes. We’ll be publishing the Harshaneeyam Podcast conversations with translators on their work and their craft this year

"...figurative language had become a chimera." Claudia Durastanti in Granta granta.com/obituary-of-a-…

lmk if anyone’s interested in doing a chapbook with 57 translations of the same poem

Honoured to share my feature for New York Times Travel about hiking in Zagori, one of the most beautiful places in the world, and why Greek summer is more than just beaches and frappe nytimes.com/2025/09/01/tra…

Now in English for the first time, Italian comics master Attilio Micheluzzi’s classic graphic novel follows the dramatic adventures of a mysterious heroine during the end of World War I: Petra Chérie is out 12/2! ow.ly/ik2F50WQB3k

È morto lo scrittore Stefano Benni. Voglio ricordarlo con una citazione da 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘋𝘰𝘭𝘤𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢, uno dei romanzi che mi ha avvicinato alla lettura. «Dentro un raggio di sole che entra dalla finestra, tavolta vediamo la vita nell’aria. E la chiamiamo polvere.»

Probably the best possible review? Seeking a publisher for another of Castaldi's books. Still experimental but totally different. Hallucinatory yet controlled (punctuated but paratactic, Steinlike). Please reach out if this is you! 👀 goodreads.com/book/show/1254…

Too meaty for a pull quote—the entirety must be read in its perfection.