Read a new poem by Thái Hà, with art by Lien Truong. diacritics.org/2025/09/poetry…

🥁 Announcing the 2025 Cercador Prize finalists — Congratulations to all the nominees and thank you to this year's bookseller committee! 🎉 The winning work of literature in translation will be announced on November 17, 2025.

Fiona the hippo popped up to look for her care team—and, of course, snacks!🥬

my wrists could never!

Palestine refugees can also win Nobel Prizes 🇵🇸 🏆 ✨

IMPORTANTÍSSIMO! 🚨 É com muita alegria que anunciamos a vencedora do Prêmio Camões 2025, o maior reconhecimento literário de língua portuguesa, que este ano vai para a poeta e historiadora angolana Ana Paula Tavares, aos 72 anos! ❤️🇦🇴 Ana Paula Tavares é autora de diversos

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

Me and Mark Krotov are back with more jokes about The Nobel Prize newrepublic.com/article/201543…

This year, Viet Film Fest featured eleven short film sets. diaCRITICS contributing writer Cathy Duong highlights a number of short films across these brilliantly curated sets. diacritics.org/2025/10/viet-f…

Her command of sensory details is so good, so evocative. When I first read it, I had to stop and copy down this passage from the end of the first story "Aloeswood Incence":

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia. tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

Fritz the hippo 💯

Aquarium hijinks provide the strongest evidence yet that sharks love to play. Learn more: scim.ag/3X3ONBq

RARIDADE!! 📚 Hilda Hilst, Lygia Fagundes Telles, e os cachorrinhos caramelos, amizade eterna! ❤️📚

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. nyti.ms/4qK137J

#tbt sorry we missed this, Mr. Mayor-Elect

A government going above and beyond to make their country starve