“The goal isn’t to be happy with my voice. What I want is simply to have one.” From our Art of Fiction interview with Jhumpa Lahiri in our new Spring issue. buff.ly/3Tg9doD

Thanks, Paul Auster. You will be remembered.

Congratulations to Jenny & Michael!! 💫🎉 And thank you to The Booker Prizes for a magical night at the Tate Modern. We enjoyed every second of it 💚

Poet Henri Cole

SOLENOID WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award!!! 🖤Congratulations, Mircea and Sean! Thank you to the judges for selecting it, to the Cluj county library in Romania for nominating it, to Dublin UNESCO & Dublin City libraries for presenting the award.

Translator & novelist Idra Novey says something similar to Jenny Croft, "The questions that guide my word choices when recreating the sensibility of another writer in English have become integral to the questions that guide my word choices for each character in [my] novel."

The Franco-Italian Alliance lives! Delighted to have shared the Thorton Wilder Translation Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters with the estimable Charlotte Mandell , aka, Charlotte Mandell.

Happy Loving Day! 57 years ago, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to interracial marriage. As MAGA extremists are attacking our civil rights on every front, we have to keep fighting so that everyone can marry who they love.

Today's papal audience for comedians and humorists in the Apostolic Palace was a joyful event, and the Pope's talk on how humor "spreads peace and smiles" was beautiful. Here's the Holy Father greeting some American comedians. It was a joy to meet so many comedians who are also

If you missed the debate, here's the summary of 90 minutes in 11 seconds:

Dem leadership failed to force out Dianne Feinstein who was completely senile at 90. They cannot afford the same lack of backbone now. The stakes are too high. It was painfully obvious to everyone: Joe is not up to the job. The country deserves better

You guys are whistling past the graveyard. Everyone who saw that debate witnessed a confused 81-yr-old man unable to finish his sentences and thoughts. This was not normal and it's not the invention of media pundits. Wake up before it's too late. Joe needs to go.

Steve Peoples “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~George Orwell, 1984

“I stood there, staring at my phone, thumbing up and down the homepage of America’s newspaper of record, searching for a single mention of Gaza, and found nothing.” This is most of us every single day. Dan Sheehan on genocide media’s unreal nonstop #GenocideJoe whitewash

Life is always worth living, and there is always hope for the future, even when everything seems to be over. The fact that each of us exists is a unique gift for both ourselves and for others. God never abandons us - He knows how to listen, rejoice, and weep with us.

“I recenti successi della letteratura italiana all’estero si devono in larga misura a chi la traduce - e la vastità del panorama editoriale che la rende possibile si deve chi lo arricchisce traducendo in italiano romanzi da tutto il mondo” - Vincenzo Latronico

Review | Aaron Robertson’s book “The Black Utopians” mines the tension between “running from hell” and “racing toward paradise,” and finds beauty in seemingly impossible dreams. wapo.st/4h3d8jB

"Jamie Richards, a full-time translator, was awarded $4,000 for his English-language transcription from the Italian of Marosia Castaldi's "The Hunger of Women," the American Literary Translators Association announced." 😅 nwaonline.com/news/2024/nov/…