An interview with Beirut-based dancemaker Ali Chahrour about his love letter to his city and what it means to perform in Berlin in April 2024. So looking forward to seeing his piece next week!

very cool to see Jenny Erpenbeck's KAIROS on the Booker shortlist!

if you find yourself wanting to read a couple thousand words on love, historical discontinuity, the generations of the GDR, and S&M in her work, do please consider clicking on mine >>>

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i might suggest that the showy pan and the milquetoast PR write up are flip sides of the same coin—and that curious, ambitious, tough, (often negative) criticism is made of something rather different

really interesting essay this, strongly recommend >>>

laughing-at-funny-footballer-names technology has come so far. when i was a lad, we'd pool our pocket money for a single issue of Four Four Two, hoping there'd be a little joke about QPR's Danny Shittu or how 'Buffon' means clown. the kids today have a world at their fingertips—

If you are attempting a devastating takedown of a book of essays, it is very, very important not to include the sentence 'Since Montaigne, the best essays have been, as the French word suggests, trials, attempts.'

🫦The storied and steamy journal Erotic Review has been relaunched, now with a fortified #Berlin connection.

🍑We sat down with the journal's deputy editor, Saskia Vogel to find out more.

✏Alexander Wells
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'Literature always moves in its own, sometimes mysterious, underground channels.'
- Eliot Weinberger

Great essay on the transgressive circulation of poetry in translation in Asymptote Journal : asymptotejournal.com/special-featur…

this is tough talk from a 'snarky media newsletter' that reads like somebody published the trash folder from carrie bradshaw's unsuccessful trial day for an internship at gawker

What to read now: Eva Menasse, Vladimir Sorokin and Sasha Salzmann - The Berliner the-berliner.com/books/berlin-r…

'We still haven’t got to the point where sex as a topic is integrated with all other aspects of life. It’s still kept in its separate little area—as something shadowy, or something cheeky and novel'

Saskia Vogel in The Berliner Magazine on Erotic Review 🎉

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The Berlin Type Map is OUT NOW.
Get your copy from the Blue Crow Media website, or wherever good books and maps are sold.
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dispatch from the translation life – just found a piece of paper with only this written on it – NICHT-KUNST NON ART NOT NOT ART

New reviewer in town. Very much here for the dawning of the Montpetit era.

writing book criticism in 2024

I've started reviewing fiction for The Berliner Magazine! Starting out with a bang with the new translation of Vladimir Sorokin's maybe-too-weird but genuinely great BLUE LARD: the-berliner.com/books/berlin-r…

I sadly can't get to this feat. Matthew Longo but very much recommend Berlin people check it out >>>

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A start, and nowhere close to a sufficient one, but here's a database of translations from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian into English. I'll be adding many more entries in the coming days, but please feel free to help correct any oversight. turkoslavia.com/post/translati…

We have some exciting news. The Berlin Type Map – our collaboration with Blue Crow Media – is coming soon.

More info about the map (and the launch party next Friday) to follow…

“ Music, including the music of literature, Knausgaard seems to be suggesting, is a way of increasing our traffic with the world”

Love this essay >>>