On Friday I signed a contract with a well-known British publisher to translate a collection of Japanese literary essays for release this fall. I should be able to announce the title and publisher soon enough. #Japanese #literature #essay #collection #book #translation #booksky #translatesky
In this new Longreads essay, Aaron Rabinowitz writes about survival, identity, and the inked and invisible scars that history leaves behind.
"I have no doubt that Vincent and James both did their share of thinking, which will remain a solace for me. And, yet, no one undertakes suicide unthinkingly."
Yiyun Li for The New Yorker: https://longreads.com/2025/03/28/the-deaths-and-lives-of-two-sons/
"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain. The brain is a porous surface. Memory is a porous surface."
A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz: https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
The Cardinal At My Window | And So It Goes…
Guest Contribution by #Mohamed #Hussien: "In #Defense of #Weak #Dualism"
This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his #essay "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of #dualism", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in #overcoming the 2500 years old #misconception in the #philosophy of #mind.
The originaltext is in English.
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/
Hace unos meses tuve la suerte y el honor de que me encargaran la corrección de este libro. Y ahora, que lo acabo de recoger del buzón, os lo enseño para que sepáis que es una belleza 
The Tower & The Star
One must accept death in order to truly live.
The concept of a relationship as having expectations, as having any rules, as bonds, must dissolve in order for your partner to have real agency.
Each partner must accept that the relationship is over before it can begin.
Each person is a solar system surrounding the brilliant star 
of their divine spark, they can not be contained.
If you shine bright enough, you won't have to worry about your loved ones leaving.
In this essay I will...
'You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.'
Tyson Yunkaporta goes on an elliptical journey in The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband:
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-time-travelers-wifes-husband
#books #reading #writing #essay #story #bookstodon @bookstodon
"The loss of this self was nothing to be mourned; I was glad to have arrived on the other side. But I was too freshly molted, my shell soft and nerve endings still tingling."
Sabrina Imbler for Orion: https://longreads.com/2025/03/20/key-changes/
"In our special brotherhood of that summer of ’72 in London, the absence of words – in Arabic, in Persian, in distant English – did not require our names."
Salar Abdoh for Coda Story and Stranger's Guide: https://longreads.com/2025/03/18/on-brotherhood-and-blindness/
"Make sure you catch any inventory stickers still attached to the plums. Squint at the fine print on one of them to find the origin statement. Apparently we import plums from Chile? Guess you'd better enjoy them while we still do that."
How to make the Smitten Kitchen Purple Plum Torte in March, 2025
Guest Contribution by #Mohamed #Hussien: "In #Defense of #Weak #Dualism"
This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his #essay "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of #dualism", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in #overcoming the 2500 years old #misconception in the #philosophy of #mind.
The originaltext is in English.
More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/
"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo."
John Last for The Long Now Foundation: https://longreads.com/2025/03/11/is-god-a-mushroom/
"I will never know if my grandfather and his father realized the magnitude of their complicity in Italy’s colonial dreams."
Stefania D’Ignoti for New Lines Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/07/my-grandpa-the-fascist/
Er.. someone wants a tutor to look over a 20-page math essay.
In my day we did not have "math essays."
I wonder what it would look like.
"The Impact of Postmodernism on the Evaluation of Integrals: A System of Oppression."
Our #Longreads Top 5:
- Harm and hope in West Virginia (The Delacorte Review)
- The fast-food fight Ali lost (Defector)
- The day doubt took over (Aeon)
- When fear slithers in (The Bitter Southerner)
- Kitzbühel’s wild side (Outside)
"Five decades later, I remain terrified of walking across a moonlit lawn or even strolling along the sidewalk after dusk. Every fallen twig looks like a baby rattler."
Rebecca Burns for The Bitter Southerner: https://longreads.com/2025/03/05/here-be-serpents/
Ooooh - what are YOU excited for?
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in March 2025 - Reactor https://reactormag.com/new-fantasy-books-march-2025/
