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Love Transmuted into Archive
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (164+ words) Erda" G'knar is associate professor of Turkish studies at Duke. He is the award-winning English translator of Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red (Knopf, 2001), the author of Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (Routledge,…...
What Does Translation Do?
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (295+ words) Unlearning with Translation: A Critical and Collective Practice by Virginie Bobin. Sternberg Press, 2026. 152 pages. HOW ARE OUR LIVES shaped and our worlds made by the languages we encounter every day? When we understand language to be a historical and material…...
In Praise of Difficult Poetry
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (273+ words) Battalion Shaped Girl by Temperance Aghamohammadi. Discount Guillotine, 2025. 67 pages.After You Were, I Am by Camille Ralphs. McSweeney's, 2025. 100 pages. What transforms bread into flesh, wine into the blood of Christ, also transforms the humdrum and commodified into the means of…...
Motricity and Desire
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (268+ words) THE GUN GOES OFF. Why do we start this way? We have gotten so used to violence, or its specter, in everything. With the shot, an impulse reaction and a surge of adrenaline: The first runner sets off. It is…...
The Pan-Scan Scam
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (250+ words) As it turns out, the A-list blitz is working. According to corporate reports, Prenuvo has performed over 100,000 scans, and is rapidly opening imaging centers across North America, from Jacksonville, Florida, to Portland, Oregon. At the end of 2025, Function Health was…...
An Offering for the Commemoration
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (320+ words) IN THE MIDDLE of this soggy holiday season, between one rainstorm and another, a paper sign was taped to my front door: "Altagether Neighbors" One Year Commemoration, Blessings and Gratitude Gathering. There will be Pan Dulce, Caf" de Olla, and…...
Labor of Love
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (582+ words) Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film by Allyson Nadia Field. University of California Press, 2026. 272 pages. I spoke to Field about her book over Zoom in January, while she taught a University of Chicago study-abroad course…...
Mothra Lives Again!
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (159+ words) The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Shin'ichir" Nakamura , Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta. Translated by Jeffrey Angles. University of Minnesota Press, 2026. 120 pages. Timothy S. Murphy teaches literature and film at Oklahoma State University. He has published books on experimental writer William…...
Cat Scratch Tarot
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (122+ words) Elizabeth Wiet is a writer and editor based in New York. Her work has appeared in Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Elephant, Momus, The Quietus, Bidoun, Topical Cream, the Los Angeles Review of Books, IMPULSE, Public Books, TDR, and elsewhere. An…...