New on Substack: Join Junot Díaz’s conversation with the brilliant Dimitry Elis Léger as they talk writing, beloved islands, and Léger’s new novel DEATH OF A SOCCER GOD ⚽️📚
https://t.co/bK5hNt4tsq
Amerikalı yazar Julie Otsuka’nın üç eserinin üçü de artık Türkçede. Göçmenliği, toplama kamplarını, yurtsuzluğu, yalnızlığı, dayanışmayı mesafeli diliyle çarpıcı kılan yazarı keşfetmediyseniz artık vakti. Üçü de benim çevirimle @domingoKITAP’tan çıktı.
"I’m a big fan of Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, and I think this closing volume is the best of the bunch...it contains some of my favorite writing on...New York City and the ways it shapes the people who call it home." @PublishersWkly@doubledaybooks
https://t.co/415liXSDXZ
"You exist in a network of love and care. Your pain is proof of that; proof that our connections to others have the ability to alter time and space. How are you going to exercise this power?"
Read Lina Mounzer's latest in @TheMarkazReview: https://t.co/UaVygV5NCF
"The International Short Story is Booming" @rabihalameddine and John Freeman discuss their new anthology in @lithub ! @penguinpress
Read it here: https://t.co/lehvTlGBcV
"This is a treasure." UNSAYABLE by Michael Cunningham just received a starred review from @PublishersWkly! @randomhouse
Read it here: https://t.co/W5zunTkldc
It's pub day for THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY!🕊️🧡 "Writers from six continents, ranging from new voices to literary icons, each offer a window into a distinct point of view, both transcending and illuminating their place of origin."
@penguinpress
I love it when a writer ends a powerful, swelling passage on a perfectly oblique, unforeseen word.
Such a rarified trick to pull off; gets me every time.
"...The result is a moving consideration of the ties that bind." A ROOM IN BOMBAY is in @PublishersWkly! 🥳
https://t.co/JnYj90iBi2.
@ManilSuri@wwnorton
So excited to see that Danzy Senna's COLORED TELEVISION is a finalist for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize! @NewLitProject@riverheadbooks 🥳
https://t.co/aDjT92qKnN
Listen to Pankaj Mishra talk to Lina Mounzer about her memoir-essay on writing for mainstream magazines and newspapers in the US, and about why she stopped trying to explain the Middle East to Americans for @Equatormag
https://t.co/KsW8XeOra3
https://t.co/FnJs0eKMkU
"We all knew this war was coming. Perhaps as a Lebanese I was more attuned to it than most, given that our entire lives here have been lived under the shadow of the next Israeli war perpetually hulking our way." Read Lina Mounzer's report from Beirut: https://t.co/9MpFhyQajM
So happy to see that RAJA THE GULLIBLE has been shortlisted for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize! Congratulations, @rabihalameddine! @groveatlantic
https://t.co/VB21njEm0U
LEBANON is here! It’s pub day for the wonderful @anissahelou ⏲️✨@eccobooks
“Though she has lived all over the world, Anissa Helou has her heart firmly in one place…LEBANON represents her unique perspective on the most essential—and delightful—dishes from her homeland”