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“The violence of every war is shocking and yet, to an extent, a repetition—familiar.” thebaffler.com/latest/the-tim…

“Certain days are marked out by time, by fate, as significant even as they are being lived, in real time, rather than only appearing so in hindsight.” In The Baffler, Rhian Sasseen reviews Mathias Énard’s newly translated novel, “The Deserters” - thebaffler.com/latest/the-tim…

Increasingly feels like we're entering into a new 'post-literate' society

Time may move inexorably forward, but history seems to have a way of repeating itself. In Mathias Énard’s “The Deserters,” a sense of regression infuses every action and page. thebaffler.com/latest/the-tim…

these stories are sooooo good!!

In recent years, writers have turned their attention to the ways in which the twenty-first century mirrors the twentieth. Rhian Sasseen reviews Mathias Énard’s latest novel, which wonders whether the cycles of history can be broken. thebaffler.com/latest/the-tim…

You can now read International-Booker-Prize-Winner Banu Mushtaq’s acceptance speech, in full, over on our Ampersand blog: andotherstories.org/2025/05/21/ban…

Next Wednesday, May 28th! Come by Bar Jade in Bushwick at 7 p.m. for another reading organized by Kate Peters and me! Featuring work by: - Jenna Klorfein - Ismail Muhammad (Ismail Muhammad) - Alex Wolfe - Rob Rubsam (Robert Rubsam) See you there! partiful.com/e/LhcoSXdMXezC…

This is tomorrow! Our reading series will be taking a short summer break after this, so make sure you stop by!

Excellent read👇 "In the realm of literature—always more slow-moving than the headlines—a number of writers have turned their attention in recent years to the ways in which the two centuries seem to mirror one another"

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87 bbc.in/4kgVU3C

Tonight!!!

"[Lydia Sandgren's COLLECTED WORKS] exerts a hypnotic pull on the reader over its hundreds of pages." —Rhian Sasseen in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Wrote about some books to read when boredom strikes for The Atlantic ! theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Enjoying digging into Issue 01 of Fallow Media’s print journal. With work by Ellen Dillon (who we miss on twitter), Rhian Sasseen, Wayne Koestenbaum…

“Tonight a woman is speaking to you.” During WWII, the Italian station Radio Bari became the voice of free Italy. Alba de Céspedes broadcast twice a week, addressing the women of Italy. Read three transcripts, translated into English for the first time. nyer.cm/zxmh2tJ

I wrote some reviews in miniature for my newsletter of everything I read and watched in April phrasebooks.substack.com/p/culture-diar…

But what percentage of audiences DO want more blockbusters? Because it seems to me that, in the same way that publishing has decided to ignore midlist authors because their audiences may be loyal but smaller, Hollywood has no value for audiences who don’t care for blockbusters

I'm sure LLMs will get better than this. But as it stands, everyone who posts this kind of thing — with an example that wows them — is just announcing that they can't evaluate what makes writing effective, or aren't used to understanding the meaning of the things they read.

Madonna to release ‘Veronica Electronica’ on July 25. The long-rumored project features “rare and unreleased” remixes from ‘Ray of Light.’