NEW: Poll from CBS, YouGov finds support for weapons aid for Israel has dramatically declined among Democrats.

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Is there a recently published or forthcoming book that you can't stop thinking about?

We're open for prose book reviews all year long! (cc our new prose review editor Michael Barron.)

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'A Kalighat line drawing of a cat with a fish in its mouth illustrating a Bengali proverb of Hindu priests publically abstaining from eating meat or fish but secretly indulging in private. Circa 1920.'

May the Bengali humour and irreverence continue. Happy Bengali new year!

Please note that both Robin Myers and Julia Sanches have asked for support for the young Gazan writer Nadine Murtaja in their statements. x.com/robin_ep_myers…

CAMEL OF HARDSHIP, Sliman Mansour, 1973

Presenting Rekhta Baitbaazi: A National Competition Celebrating Urdu.

Join us in celebrating the rich tradition of Urdu poetry and keep the legacy alive!

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Hurry, the last date for registration is 28th April 2024

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'The Palestinian Alphabet', a Poster by Dar al-Fata al-Arabi, 1986.

They said they were victims. They said you were
Arabs.
They called      your apartments and gardens      guerrilla
strongholds.
They called      the screaming devastation
that they created       the rubble.

—June Jordan

Félix Vallotton

Paesaggio di Boulogne
(Paysage du Boulogne) (1919).

Félix Vallotton 

Giardini del Lussemburgo
(Le Jardin du Luxembourg) (1905).

New sonnet with references to Cairokee & Ziad. Don’t say we escaped, just that we too failed.

My gratitude to G. Calvocoressi for giving this one a home in Southern Cultures

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I worked with Michael Henry Heim to set up the PEN/Heim Translation Fund & am very glad Jack Hargreaves accepted. I urge winners of the 2024 PEN/Heim grants NOT to decline.

The Fund was donated by Heim twenty years ago & has continued to

🇵🇸 Yesterday morning, an inspiring wave of student activism swept through McGill as courageous students reclaimed over 30 buildings on campus. Each renamed edifice now stands as a powerful testament to the Palestinian villages erased in the shadow of settler colonialism.

PALESTINIAN MOTIFS, Nabil Anani, 2013

‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened -- the IDF shot patients in their beds & doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people with differently-colored bracelets, executed 100s of civil govt employees.

mondoweiss.net/2024/04/come-o…

What a rich crossing this will be.
The Bridge: Translation From, For and To leslie.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/03/b… Alex Zucker