livia manera sambuy

literary journalist, author and documentary filmmaker based in Paris.

[Saurabh (they) @writerly_life]

Had the immense pleasure to interview @94bac on her award-winning book #InSearchOfAmritKaur, which is easily one of the finest works of nonfiction I’ve read, for @htTweets / @utterflea
@KeralaLitFest

https://t.co/EdGJUFJdO7

[Les Indépendants Sénat @Indep_Senat]

L'Europe est à un tournant critique de son histoire.

👉 Discours complet de @ClaudeMalhuret à l'occasion d'un débat au @Senat sur la guerre en #Ukraine et la sécurité de l'Europe.

📑 https://t.co/OZFp98bm9N

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:

December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.

February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.

July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.

February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.

U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.

~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.

The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.

America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.

Slava Ukraina.

[livia manera sambuy @94bac]

@writerpath1 Hello @writerpath1 , here I am

[livia manera sambuy @94bac]

Congratulations to the amazing “Giu”!

[The Robert B. Silvers Foundation @silversfound]

Judith Thurman is awarded a 2025 Dudley Prize in Arts Writing for her “exuberant intelligence” and the “harmonious feeling that she builds over time with her subjects.” “She is a sleuth and a wit who carves out gorgeous sentences as she goes along exploring.”

[livia manera sambuy @94bac]

@LibertyBooks_ Thank you for your support ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I'm hearing from experts around the world about what the destruction of USAID is meaning: "a global health massacre," in the words of a doctor who has devoted her life to humanitarian work on the front lines. Millions of malnourished children left to starve. Pregnant women not getting micronutrients to prevent neural tube defects. Programs against schistosomiasis abandoned. HIV positive patients left without ARV's. Water no longer purified. Surveillance against Ebola and bird flu set back. TB patients unable to get medicine. I've long argued that USAID should be reformed, but this Trump/Musk demolition is cruel and incompetent and benefits China, while killing children just as wonderful as our own.

[The Robert B. Silvers Foundation @silversfound]

Judith Thurman is awarded a 2025 Dudley Prize in Arts Writing for her “exuberant intelligence” and the “harmonious feeling that she builds over time with her subjects.” “She is a sleuth and a wit who carves out gorgeous sentences as she goes along exploring.”

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“If we shall not end the occupation, we shall not have security,” warns Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, “and if we shall not end this occupation, we shall not have democracy.”

In an extraordinarily candid interview, Israel’s former internal security chief condemns what he calls Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “toxic leadership,” and argues that as the war continues, “we are losing our identity as people, as Jews, and as human beings.”

Watch our full conversation here.

[Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC]

Another favorite #Cavafy poem on this, his birthday—and, in its remarkable terseness, one of the hardest to translate: “Voices”:

#poetry #translation #literature

[Macmillan Academic @macmillanreads]

✨ Happy paperback publication week to @sarahkendzior, @AngelAuYeung, @94bac, and all of our authors with new paperbacks out this week! 📚✨

[livia manera sambuy @94bac]

@tunkuv @WSJBooks Interesting. Thank you. Yes, he is a great writer, but can’t resist being also “petulant” (copyright David Remnick).

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

People saying goodbye to Alexey Navalny at his grave at the Borisovsky cemetery in Moscow.

Police officers present at the site are screaming at people, urging them to move quicker.

📹: Novaya Europe

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the courage required to show up for navalny’s funeral is worth our appreciation

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

What having a book reviewed feels like. Via @greg_jenner

[Dr Myriam François @MyriamFrancoisC]

Without a global intervention we are about to witness 2.4 million being ethnically cleansed from their land in 2024 & relocated to a buffer zone in Egypt. This is underway. Where is the world. We told you this was ethnic cleansing from day1. Start reporting reality! War crimes

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

The IDF has entered Nasser Hospital, one of the last functioning left in Gaza. It is the largest hospital in southern Gaza, where more than 1,500 people have been sheltering. @nadaabashir reports on the latest, with some images that are difficult to watch.

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

Utterly appalling

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

So all you cheerleaders for "the most moral army in the world" with your claims of "pinpoint accuracy." Take a look at what you enabled. This is the Genghis Khan model of warfare: total destruction, mass slaughter of civilians, complete eradication. Netanyahu says he has barely begun. Don't be on the wrong side of history. #NoToEthnicCleansing

[livia manera sambuy @94bac]

@James_J_Conway @aliciabwfoster @amylyford @asterism_books @BloomsburyBooks @ClaireDederer @CockettRichard @ColumbiaUP @CuriosoTheGreat @CyclicLaw @DukePress @edlingallery @FOTOHOF @fulgurpress Thank you Secret Satan and @James_J_Conway