Friday, April 19th at 7PM ET, join us for an in-store event with Neel Mukherjee to discuss and celebrate the release of Choice. He will be in conversation with writer Namwali Serpell.

RSVP: bit.ly/tls-choice

BREAKING ‼️
As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.

SHOP THE BOYCOTT: All books by the authors withdrawing from @PENAmerica awards available here!! Profits issued by Bookshop will be divided equally between UNRWA, which delivers life-saving aid to Gaza, and the Palestine-allied bookstore Word Is Change. bookshop.org/lists/2024-pen…

As of this morning 29 writers & translators nominated for PEN Awards have withdrawn - including 9 of 10 fellow Jein/Stein nominees, who asked to no longer be considered for PEN’s most lucrative prize. We sent a letter to leadership today explaining why:
lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

Starting now! ⁦The Yale Review⁩ festival @yale, featuring Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Hernan Diaz, ⁦⁦Katie Kitamura⁩ , ⁦aria aber⁩, ⁦Brian Dillon⁩, Merve Emre, ⁦Namwali⁩ and many more!

I expect American literati, to, you know, be literate in things, but here’s one of the country’s leading fiction writers demonstrating an illiteracy so great that it can only be paralleled by the unbridled arrogance with which he expresses it.

The person who coined the phrase was Tede Matthews, an anti-imperialist, socialist feminist drag queen in San Francisco. It was said in the 1977 documentary Word is Out and was a critique of capitalism’s gender socialization and consumerism. Which RuPaul subsequently commodified.

The most horrifying thing I’ve read.

“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.”

- Kwame Ture

It's crazy that you can't even vote for what you want in this country because they change their position as soon as they get into office. This is a fucking joke. This isn't even a year apart.

Love to see it.

The sun today:

Blood Meridian-ass headline

i guess that kant getting eaten

🚨Hostages are having their legs amputated from being zip-tied by all 4 limbs for months; they're being forced to defecate in diapers & fed through straws.

Those are Gazan hostages at Israel's Sde Teiman 'concentration camp', so you won't see one word about it in Western media🧵

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

Give the intern a raise

Israel today left a massive hospital complex in ruins with the stench of decomposing bodies everywhere, bombed an embassy, and then killed international workers with World Food Kitchen.

What horrors will tomorrow bring?

The total destruction by ISrael of the most important, 700 beds specialty hospital in Gaza, Al Shifa Medical Complex. It was established 78 years ago during the British Mandate, the name Shifa meaning 'The House of Healing'; now turned into a 'House of Death' by Israel and the…

There’s a food influencer I used to follow on TikTok from Gaza who did reviews of restaurants and dishes there. He disappeared for months after the war but now he’s back making cooking videos using things from aid packages for kids in the refugee encampments: