These mega$ lit prizes, funded by the profits of dynamite, slavery, militarization & settlercolonialism… What would a different world of multiple smaller global prizes & genuinely transnational literary curiosity look like?

Join us next Sunday 11am-1 pm EST online for a global reading. (& Toronto irl launch on Sunday Oct 26) - more details on Monday. Buy soon…the book is beautiful, complex, & thought-provoking!

TAMIL TERRAINS SUNDAY: Oct 19 11 am- 1 pm EST (online) 🔸join us to celebrate this beautiful, thought-provoking book! 🔸register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔸15% pre-order discount (>Oct 31) tracepress.org

Happening right now. 17 hours ago, a book about this very encampment won the Toronto Book Award

Please take feminists seriously when we talk about "generational trauma."

Beautiful readings today from our poet-translators in Malaysia, Singapore, India, UK, & Canada. Really thrilled to have Rashmy & Tharmini join us as well. #TamilTerrains

October feels like a ghazal sung in Begum Akhtar's lamenting vocals

Today on ArabLit, honoring & remembering the poet Heba Abu Nada, murdered on this day in 2023.

Francesca Orsini's scholarship has greatly enriched Hindi literary studies and history of the book in India. She is a renowned scholar published worldwide in English and in Hindi. She has just been denied entry into India, with no reason given.

« The nation is imagined and contested in different ways in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese, or Bengali, and different genres of prose & verse literature, music, art, & theatre participate in this project of imagination. » —Partha Chatterjee scroll.in/article/108483…

“Today, we are all witnesses. But the assumption that once gave value to the act of witnessing has proven to be completely untrue when it comes to Palestine.” —Saeed Teebi Read the book & this interview, gifted by ⁦Richie Assaly⁩ archive.is/2025.10.23-154…

October reading 🍂🍁🍂

“(Soyinka) called it, with characteristic humour, a “rather curious love letter” to receive” — Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2…

Samia & her ‘disappearing’ opponents. (following, with concern, today’s elections back home in TZ & ZNZ)