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Reading Bill Clinton’s novel. Literally a page after a tense confrontation about a terrorist plot, the fictional president Will Winsom thinks this to himself.

History is a cycle in Turkey. When I was her age I interviewed the tortured kids and now it is my dear Cagil M. Kasapoglu ‘s turn. With each new generation we keep hoping this pattern will be broken. Listen to these young people, maybe this time they will put an end to this cycle. x.com/cagilkasapoglu…

Oh, it's nothing... just a bit sad @GWCUAW voted to endorse a deal negotiated behind their backs and clearly designed to disempower them, that's all

Congratulations to Hope Campbell Gustafson, Bruna Dantas Lobato (Bruna Dantas Lobato), Stephen Epstein, Misha Hoekstra (Misha Hoekstra), Lucas Klein, Simon Leser (Simon Leser), Emma Lloyd, Ottilie Mulzet (ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social), Catherine Nelson, Julia Powers, and Lara Vergnaud (@laravergnaud)!

Jesus Christ, I think we might just have won a campaign.

Very exciting to find this spirited review of my book today from Pankaj Mishra, in @newyorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

Happy pub day to Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras, translated from French by Simon Leser. Based on the true story of a young man named Fernand Iveton and set during the Algerian War, it won the Prix Goncourt for First Novel. versobooks.com/books/3806-tom…

For Bookforum Magazine, I wrote about interpretation, not writing what you want to write, and Édouard Louis's latest, which I love bookforum.com/print/2903/a-f…

“Taken as a whole, it may be that Louis’s oeuvre offers the narrative not so much of his life but of his ongoing efforts at understanding it.” Read Simon Leser on Edouard Louis’s brutal self-creation: bit.ly/3RJZ0yw

What motivates the seemingly endless quest to translate Proust? Simon Leser on C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Lydia Davis, Benjamin Moser, and “the state of translation.” thedriftmag.com/time-and-time-…

One of the best pieces of criticism I've read this year, particularly for its subtheme of marketing-driven moralizing discourse on the 'low-effort' end of the litgame spectrum. thedriftmag.com/time-and-time-…

Come out Friday, 8/23 to help us celebrate Issue 12! Readings by: Simon Leser, @mayadamayadamay, Emma Lloyd, Julieta Vittore, and nick glastonbury for Kira Josefsson

"So when you gaze at planet earth from outer space? / Does it wipe that stupid look off of your face?" So happy he's back (and great review Jazz Monroe) pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

I learned so much from the late Bernard Lewis. All my research into Western culture is based on his work.

Virginia Woolf wanted to "challenge preconceptions of image, to make other ways of seeing possible, and to break down simplistic divides" Ali Smith's v personal response to the Tate St Ives/Pallant House Gallery/Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition inspired by Woolf - in today's The New Statesman