Writing in @GrantaMag @nybooks @nytimes @ForeignAffairs / Titles: La Structure est Pourrie, Camarade @ActesSud / The Cyclist / Das Kapital @simonschuster
“The first time my family self-isolated, I was 8 years old. The impetus was not a viral outbreak but the start of heavy fighting in west Beirut.” Viken Berberian writes about reading comics in lockdown, from his childhood in Lebanon to today’s pandemic:
https://t.co/AZjt48pqfp
I am thrilled to share that I’ve signed with @mcsweeneys to complete my translation of Sabyl Ghoussoub’s autofiction Beyrouth-sur-Seine, originally published by Éditions Stock in France in 2022 and recipient of the Prix de Goncourt des Lycéens. Deeply grateful to McSweeney’s and @villa_albertine whose translation grant made this project possible.
@atanessi@BBCWorld Malevich is referenced in one of my short stories (not yet published), but I may have to reshape it with this revelation. In 2019, we saw the following at @CentrePompidou I hope they were originals: https://t.co/V9Qo9J9fzK
12. The structure is rotten, comrade — Viken Berberian, Yann Kebbi (ілюстратор)
Раніше вона належала публічній бібліотеці Денвера, і це прям вишенька на торті:3
We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive.
https://t.co/wit4fULnwR
"There was a time when our neighbors paid a premium for our glorious fruits, but somewhere along the way, the terms of trade moved against us, and the world became more interested in the terror we produced." The Cyclist, 2002, a novel @apublicspace@Shaptonia
The inside of a man is a subway, there are levels and more levels—the lower down you go the more disgusted you get, but there are still vending machines at the lowest level, with chocolates, little treats, candies…
--Céline, London
“Climate change and causality: a comparison of chatbot-generated and student written essays”. Heading to the land of semiotician Juri Lotman to present our findings at the 9th DHNB conference in Estonia: https://t.co/juhF6DtxTt Who will win? @OpenAI, @ChatGPTapp or us trifling humans? @sama
I wrote about the transformation of a medieval town for Kometa (hors-série) that threatens to rival Brooklyn and Berlin. Thank you to my editor @HaydeeSaberan Also in this issue, Andreï Kurkov @AKurkov Osman Kavala, Valérie Manteau, Robert Guediguian @RGuediguian and Leos Carax