Colin Barrett

The generator hums like a distant ding an zich

YOUNG SKINS (2013)

HOMESICKNESS (2022)

WILD HOUSES (2024)

Work in @NewYorker @Harpers @StingingFly

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[Neil Scott @MrNeilScott]

A short dramatisation of the scene in Martin Amis's Money where John Self (Mel Smith) and Martin Amis (Martin Amis) bump into each other at lunch.

[Ahmed Ashour 𓂆🇵🇸 @AhmedAAshour8]

One of the most heartbreaking videos ever:
a child from Gaza crying in deep pain and longing for his family, whom Israel killed

We will never forget, and we will never forgive💔

[G.S. Quay @hemingquay]

Augustine’s Confessions

[Ryk @kharkanas]

Harrison's picks for the Guardian list

[Giles Goat-Girl @nadienadianadie]

always found "The Michael Jordan of drunk driving played his final game tonight" to be a beautiful line.

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

A father of four survives an attack, only to face a different kind of suffering every day after. HELP: https://t.co/6l9JFjXgdv He now lives with quadriplegia, unable to work, unable to move freely, trying to care for his children while struggling to care for his own wounds. With no proper medical supplies, he uses ripped diapers as bandages. Even basic medical cleaning supplies are out of reach.

How is a father supposed to provide for his family under these conditions? How are children supposed to grow up watching their parent endure this pain with no safety, no stability, and no end in sight?

On May 1, Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project distributed 885 kufta sandwiches inside Mosa’ab Bin Omair Camp, providing meals directly to displaced families facing impossible circumstances. The total cost of the distribution was $2,136 after 11% commission fees.

Providing meals directly to camps where suffering families reside takes away at least one burden - wondering where they will get their next meal from. Support our Food and Water Campaign.

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SiNtb (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")
https://t.co/fWlJpZkj23 (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

My wounded son after losing his mom and brothers in Israeli bombing in February 2024

[Nicole Tallman @natallman]

“my mother said I am going now
when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know”
—W.S. Merwin

[Kit Wilson @kitwilsonwriter]

RIP Peter Aldington, whose Turn End is a lovely example of perhaps my favourite architectural style — Kettle’s Yard Modernism.

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

🚨🚨 Unfortunately, The Sameer Project took the decision today to close our kitchen a few days a week because we are not getting enough funding. The 3,000 sandwiches we make cost around $8,500 to $9,000 per day and that’s the amount we are getting across all campaigns. Our hearts ache as we make this announcement but there’s no other option 🚨🚨

Urgent support needed: https://t.co/6l9JFjXgdv

Taghreed lives in Asdqa Camp in Deir El Balah, a camp that we support regularly, and she talks about her daily struggles and the risks she took to keep her kids alive. Including risking her life to go get food during the famine. Taghreed and her family are one of many that we support through our community kitchen.

On May 2nd, the Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project gave out 885 liver sandwiches in Asdqa Camp, Asqalan area, Central Gaza. Total cost with 11% commission was $2,104.

The Sameer Project team is extremely sad about lowering our food production. Most community kitchens provide lentils and plain pasta that many people in camps through away. We pride ourselves in providing high quality tasty nutritious food and pray that donations pick up again so we can get back to distributing at maximum capacity.

Donate to the Food & Water Campaign today: https://t.co/6l9JFjXgdv

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SiNtb (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water")
https://t.co/WNZu0ESh1Q (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water")

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

Most ppl don’t realize that even $3 can make this much of a difference right now in Gz. This is not all that we should be doing, it is the bare bare minimum but ppl must be kept alive while the fight continues. If you’re seeing this and have $3 in your account, donate $3.

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

Every meal you see coming out of The Sameer Project Kitchen is made possible by you monetarily - made possible by our ground team who takes pride in their cooking and service. Support now: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX

In Gaza, prices change constantly, but right now, about $3 can provide a fresh, filling sandwich: liver, shredded chicken or beef, kofta, schnitzel, or burgers. Not just “aid” - real food, real meals, made with care.

We don’t cut corners. We control the quality. We season generously. We cook food that people actually crave, because dignity isn’t just about eating, it’s about enjoying what’s on your plate.

Your donations don’t just feed people, they also restore choice, flavor, and a sense of normalcy in the middle of unimaginable injustice and trauma.

Keep supporting our Food and Water link so we can provide top quality, tasty, and wanted meals to our people in Gaza: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SifDD (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")
https://t.co/WNZu0ERJci (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

🚨BREAKING🚨Israeli forces are now issuing direct death threats to Lebanese journalists on WhatsApp as well as besieging them.

Al-Akhbar correspondent @AmalKhalil83, who has been documenting the devastation across southern Lebanon, received these messages from an Israeli number ([phone]):

“We know where you are… we will reach you… leave if you want to keep your head on your shoulders.”

First message:
“Alright, my lady, you are moving from one village to another, but you still haven’t gone to enough funerals or hospitals. There is a lot of grief & sorrow behind that smile you try to show on Twitter. Let’s see what your answer will be… Is your house still standing, Anisa (Miss)? I hope so?”

Second message:
“We know where you are & we will reach you when the time comes. Even though you are not important to us, in the end we will take everything into account. I suggest you flee to Qatar or somewhere else if you want to keep your head connected to your shoulders :)”

This is not intimidation. This is the IDF issuing an explicit death threat to a journalist for covering their crimes.

At the same time, Israeli forces besieged Amal al-Khalil & journalist Zeinab Faraj in al-Tayri, blocking the Red Cross & Lebanese Army from reaching them.

They were in a delegate vehicle when a drone strike hit a vehicle behind them, killing two people. Both journalists were trapped at the scene.

Amal contacted the Red Cross before her phone died. Her last message confirmed she was still safe.

Rescue teams still cannot reach the two besieged journalists, Amal al-Khalil & Zeinab Faraj. They are just 500 meters away, but the road has been cut off by an Israeli strike, according to Red Cross paramedics.

This is targeting journalists in real time. This is a crime.

Pure state terrorism against the press.

[Geoffrey D. Morrison 🇵🇸 @GeoffreyDMorri1]

Gerald Murnane makes a provocative distinction between "film-script fiction" and "meditative" or "true fiction" in his essay "In Praise of the Long Sentence" – he uses a paragraph from Raymond Carver as an example of the former and Mavis Gallant as an example of the latter

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

i've been thinking about it since reading it earlier this year, but the chapter "my first dissipation" in david copperfield is perhaps the greatest depiction of youthful drunkenness in literature. and you can even read it here: https://t.co/RgFqpUt0T0

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

the mysterious, dreamlike, and psychedelic landscapes of eccentric 17th-century dutch painter hercules seghers (1589-1638).
he influenced artists like rembrandt and surrealists like max ernst. german filmmaker werner herzog called him a “forgotten genius”

[gazasunbirds @gazasunbirds]

This was Saed Qadoum, Sunbirds athlete killed in the Gaza Strip March 28th, 2026.

Here he is speaking about hope.
About the team competing.
About what it meant for all of us to keep going.

Even after everything he had been through, he was still thinking about others.

[Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع @dn_osama_rabee]

After a prolonged period of loss, a young man in Gaza found his brother’s body in a mass grave in the northern part of the Strip.
Amid the harshness of the moment and its tragic end, a painful sense of relief appeared on his face upon finding him, to the point that he embraced the paramedic in gratitude.

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

❤️‍🩹Exactly one year ago, 23-year-old Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed when an Israeli occupation drone struck his car in Beit Lahia as he drove toward the Indonesian Hospital to go live after reporting from northern Gaza. For months, he documented the destruction of areas like Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, becoming a defining on-the-ground voice for Al Jazeera Mubasher since October 2023.

Earlier that same day, he reported on the killing of fellow journalist Mohammed Mansour in Khan Younis, before he himself was targeted hours later in what witnesses described as a direct strike on a clearly marked press vehicle. In this video, a young girl tells him she wants to become a journalist like him, drawn to the way he spoke, reported, and stayed present when others could not, turning his work into something people looked up to, not just watched. Rest in peace Hossam

[Alan Smithee @AlanSmithee1987]

"Even apocalypse turned out to be a bust."

Sheila Fitzpatrick on a spiritual perestroika of sorts at the end of history (LRB review of Joseph Kellner's The Spirit of Socialism)

https://t.co/FtIzcj41ma