My translation of Kafka’s complete, unexpurgated diaries called “one of the finest translating achievements in recent history” by Morten Høi Jensen in Literary Review literaryreview.co.uk/paranoid-human…

for the latest edition of Literary Review I worked on some excellent pieces – Morten Høi Jensen on Kafka
ella fox-martens 🛸 on Honor Levy (Honor Levy)
Rhodri Lewis on Shakespeare novels
Ed Cumming on Kaliane Bradley
zoe g on National Theatre's Dickens show
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Wrote about Kafka for the May issue of Literary Review - thanks Leo Robson for the opportunity!

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The song “Bye Bye Bad Man” was inspired by the événements of ‘68. The lemons on the album cover are actually a reference to the protestors using citrus-soaked rags as improvised teargas masks.
Blasting this track today & dedicating it to all the students bravely demonstrating.

'Behind the climate-conscious hipster surface is the same old piety and parochialism I remember from growing up here in the nineties and early aughts.'

Morten Høi Jensen on Denmark's socialist monarchy:
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For The New Statesman, I wrote about Elias Canetti's BOOK AGAINST DEATH.
Many thanks to Gavin Jacobson for being a splendid editor.
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'If, as everyone here seems to agree, the new king and queen are so progressive and modern, then why not do the progressive and modern thing and relinquish the sovereign’s executive authority over the government?'

Morten Høi Jensen on the Danish monarchy:
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DR. CM Fernandez .Morten Høi Jensen wonders why Denmark is still doing this monarchy thing:
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It was one of the greatest honors of my career to work with Helen Vendler. Every single issue I looked forward to the hours-long phone calls we would have to go over her essays, and to discuss both our lives. It felt gluttonous to have direct access to such sharp wisdom.

Helen Vendler was the greatest reader of poetry I’ve ever known, also an extraordinary teacher, also a supremely decent and generous person. I feel so lucky to have been her student.

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“Martin Ødegaard was sublime, such an odd mix of roughhouse pressing and wonderful surgical passing, like being hounded to death by a poet.”

Went to see it. So sad.
The peculiar smell of 400-year-old timber in central Copenhagen.

Reporting from Paris: my first for the The New York Times on the legendary Cadolle. Merci anthony rotunno 🪡 nytimes.com/2024/04/14/sty…

Flaneur 1: My Enlightened Tehran
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی
'The very act of showing up to those plays and reading those books was cultural resistance.'
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Mondays

WELCOME TO THE WORLD UNPAYWALLED Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics ONLINE! libertiesjournal.com/read/

BLESSED to work w regular contributors (incl Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی, Sheila O'Malley and (upcoming) Daniel M. Lavery, Sheera Talpaz, and Alina Stefanescu) and share a fantastic piece from Gideon Leek

A brilliant and rousing manifesto for our times by ⁦Celeste Marcus⁩

“Cruelty is easier than it used to be. Courage is, too.”
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Appreciation post for one of the best, brilliant, and most courageous: Celeste Marcus Thanks for visiting ❤️