Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3mssk6aw5zc27It's official!! There's a pub date (3/16/2027), a gorgeous cover by Jamie Keenan, & I'm about to read page proofs. It's been an amazing seven years... Grateful to Peter Simon of @liveright.bsky.social If you already know you'll want a copy, please consider preordering: https://bookshop.org/a/97775/978039329205311 Aug 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssk6aw5zc27https://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3mssjt2dsdc27The Senate is about to vote on a measure called CORCA (hidden in the budget bill) that will give ICE/DHS *EVEN MORE* access to Flock surveillance cameras, & my senator Kirsten Gillibrand tells me she thinks "retail crime" is a bigger problem in this country than ICE's brutal gestapo tactics. 1/411 Aug 2026 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssjt2dsdc27https://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3mm2ecoxrgc2pJust realized something about Leon Botstein, in whose employ I was from 1998-2005 as an assistant professor of German at Bard College. Three years ago, he wanted to meet with me for some reason [cont'd] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/bard-college-board-leon-botstein-retirement-jeffrey-epstein17 May 2026 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2ecoxrgc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3mbavncvqhk2xY’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogues for the appendix. 1/231 Dec 2025 03:16 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbavncvqhk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3m6pxkfoaws2rBREAKING: Liron Mor declines @modernlanguage.bsky.social's 2025 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in protest of the MLA Exec Council's supporting genocide by suppressing a delegate assembly vote. https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-and-bds-9-letter-declining-2025.html28 Nov 2025 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6pxkfoaws2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3m5yije5dr22tIn which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/thomas-mann-master-contradiction/19 Nov 2025 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5yije5dr22thttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3m4nq6hb44s2oApropos of The New York Times's concern trolling today about Mamdani's "thin" resume, I'd like to remind everyone that Mamdani is currently serving his THIRD term in the NY State Assembly. NYT sweetheart Mike Bloomberg, by contrast, held NO office before becoming mayor. https://www.zohranfornyc.com/endorsements02 Nov 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4nq6hb44s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3m4e5et5dic2gDid your rabbi sign that wretched letter (https://docs.google.com/document/d/10FWgPObafamYnZXVc8oPBxP3zDrRR2VtC0Cd14SqzHc/edit?tab=t.0) wrongly accusing Mamdani of "Delegitimiz[ing] the Jewish community and encourag[ing] and exacerbat[ing] hostility toward Judaism and Jews"?!? This letter claims that ...29 Oct 2025 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4e5et5dic2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3m2tqtmczzs2yThe @nytimes has fallen to a new low by printing these propagandistic lies by a co-author of Trump's "compact." I'll give just one example of his newspeak: Compare this false claim (below) with the actual text of the compact (further below). https://nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/trump-compact-universities-rowan.html 1/710 Oct 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tqtmczzs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3m2jm64imys2j🧵This week, New Directions will publish a collection of essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, Things That Disappear, translated by Kurt Beals, a translator for whom I have the highest respect. Since this is a book I translated chunks of 15 years ago for magazines, and since I know some of you enjoy getting06 Oct 2025 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jm64imys2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3lzlkb4neqs24Civility Is a Fantasy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/opinion/civility-fantasy-power-kirk.html?smid=bs-share24 Sep 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlkb4neqs24https://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3lzjmfrynec2yGrateful to my colleagues next door at Barnard, Professors Castelli and Callahan of the Barnard @aaup.org, and brilliant writer Jhumpa Lahiri for these clear and principled words. We all know what it means to support real freedom of speech on and off campus. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opinion/free-speech-campus-barnard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oE8.jkAS.b-8agx9aAFiS&smid=url-share23 Sep 2025 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjmfrynec2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3lzcu2ufh4c2gCan you help the Ali Forney Center provide meals for unhoused LGBTQ+ kids in NYC? Just $5 buys a meal for two young people. Please pitch in if you can! https://serve.aliforneycenter.org/twilight-twisters21 Sep 2025 02:31 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzcu2ufh4c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3lz6uho3pvc2gI'm looking forward to this event tonight with the great Katrine Øgaard Jensen and some exciting emerging writers you'll be hearing more about soon www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/lectures-literary/writing-the-world-from-copenhagen-to-nyc/19 Sep 2025 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz6uho3pvc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3lz2lgoh4hk23I was so delighted to be asked to review Han Kang's new novel We Do Not Part, translated into English by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, for Korean Literature Now. It's a stunning book, beautifully translated. https://klwave.or.kr/klw/magazines/2192/articleView.do17 Sep 2025 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2lgoh4hk23https://bsky.app/profile/translationista.bsky.social/post/3lwu6qus4pc2sExcited to host the inimitable Jennifer Croft at Columbia next month. To attend, you MUST send in your RSVP as specified in the event description 48 hours in advance, otherwise you won't be allowed to access campus under current restrictions. In-person only. https://arts.columbia.edu/events/being-between-postcards-pregnancy-travel-and-translation20 Aug 2025 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:43dkdheruiulvaczyoxesr5n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwu6qus4pc2s