Now on WWB, Lora Maslenitsyna reviews Baqytgul Sarmekova’s collection “To Hell with Poets” (translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali, Tilted Axis), which is “dark and often sickening” yet “contemplative and wrinkled.” buff.ly/49D6U5g

I wrote about bad poets, bad girls, and bad men for WordsWithoutBorders
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/d…

I wrote about what it means to be pregnant, what it means to write, and the labor it takes to answer those questions

I wrote about stuff

wish I could log my fever dreams on Letterboxd

I wrote about Mieko Kanai’s Mild Vertigo and it’s gorgeous, sickening grocery lists

The Prelinger Archives Official channel on YouTube is up and running. youtube.com/channel/UCYKCI…

love island usa

can't stop thinking about the last movie theater left in New Haven and the gem of a person running it
newhavenindependent.org/article/fairmo…

summer of crying on the train

I am very busy loving.

'Graduate workers at Yale have maintained one of the country’s longest continuous union representation drives against fierce opposition from the Yale Administration, including previous refusal to recognize the results of NLRB elections.' Congrats! local33.org/wp-content/upl…

there’s something about carrying a pink pineapple to a friend’s house during the first snowfall of winter in Connecticut that really drives in the feeling of being in a John Ashbery poem

am I prepared to leave San Francisco? (never)

I do not want to be on the computer ... I want to be an elderly Mediterranean man who spends all day sitting outside a cafe and complaining with his friends

My great aunt in Moscow used to text me all the time—we don’t talk anymore—she calls me and my mother liars for sending her reports of Russian war crimes; we’re heartbroken by her belief in the propaganda

I know a few of us academics have this fear in our minds. The destruction of the museums and archives a la WWII. Their KGB archives are wide open compared to Russia’s. This shapes what we do. The archives were destroyed in the Balkan War too. Cultural and historical destruction.

Центр документального кино и Nonfiction. film открыли для бесплатного просмотра фильм Сергея Розницы про трагедию в Бабьем Яру

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Hundreds of Ukrainians gather today outside San Francisco city hall in protest of Russia’s war against Ukraine. “This is not just about Ukraine,” one sign reads. “It’s about all of us.”

I love this weird little theater tucked away in a shopping center no one in SF has ever stepped foot in. I’m going to miss seeing movies here so much. Somehow it always felt like I was stepping out of time for 2 hours and then had to find my way through a labyrinth to leave