#Literary

Porter Square Books

PorterSqBooks

OK, so many of you liked this we're going to do a HUGE thread of great works in translation from small presses. Some new, some older, some coming out later

Vibhu Vashisth

VIBHU_Tweet

Did you know?Ahilyabai Holkar was one of India'sgreatest women rulers of all time.Ahilyabai was Born on May 31,1725 in the village of Chondi,Jamkhed distt,Maharashtra to a man named Mankoji Shinde,who

Anti-Fascism & Far Right 🥤

FFRAFAction

THREAD Nazi Book BurningsOn this day #otd in 1933 Nazi-supporting students in 19 university towns organised mass burnings of books that were deemed ‘un-German’. Far from being spontaneous, it was

SuibianWielder

SuibianWielder

Good morning! April 23 is World Book Day!In celebration, this will be a thread on the novels Xiao Zhan had recommended for the past few years! 1. The Little Prince

Nick Gates

NTGates

This is a thread about apples. Which is fitting, as today is...APPLE DAY 2020Let's start at the beginning. Where did our first apples come from? After all they're not native

Blair

learnthisphrase

Going to start a thread for all the books I’ve read and loved in 2021 Among Others by Jo Walton. Written as the diary of Morwenna, an ordinary 15

Ace

farsiwan

The imposition of Pashto on the predominantly Farsi-speaking population of Afghanistan[Thread] It is little secret that Farsi (Persian), which is spoken by over half the population as their first language,

English Heritage

EnglishHeritage

This weekend when many would usually march through London for Pride in London, we're taking you on a virtual tour of London's Blue Plaques with a series of LGBTQ stories

Kaj Sotala

xuenay

I keep seeing all kinds of crazy reports about people's experiences with GPT-3, so I figured that I'd collect a thread of them. First, @gwern 's crazy collection of all

Seraph

AnakimSeraph

Aight, we gonna talk about the bible today since it's sunday.Ready? Ok, since this community likes symbolism and stories so much, let's see what this freemasonic book like every other

Louie Jon A. Sánchez

ljsanchezph

A History of the Philippine Soap Opera—from Radio to Teleseryes [a long thread, Part 1] 6 years ago, when I started studying the Teleserye, I made it clear to myself

Nicky Bandini

NickyBandini

A thread about my greatest career regret (prompted, improbably, by news of the imminent retirement of an American brand of pancake syrup https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/business/aunt-jemima-logo-change/index.html). In the summer of 2014,

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

I was reading in an old book yesterday, and the author remarked, only in passing, that young men in particular tend to feel very lonely. It's striking and shocking that

Eric Scott

TerminalFronk

Hi friends! Eric here, regular retweeter of silly jokes and political outrage. In the interest of fewer RTs about the imploding world around us, here's some nerdy shit about Kurt

Mandroid

Bigbounce01

4. Scaphism Scaphism, aka “the boats,” was an alleged ancient Persian method of execution where one died by literally being eaten alive. The victim would be placed between two wooden

tantum

QuasLacrimas

btw, for ppl interested in translation, here is a more technical version of Wyatt’s argument: (1/?) 2/ Translation is an art if you’re translating Proust or La Fontaine or something.