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Debut novel WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE published Nov. 12, 2024 by Two Dollar Radio. twodollarradio.com/collections/fort…

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 28/03/2026
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa: traumatic Spanish Civil War impact captured
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What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa: traumatic Spanish Civil War impact captured
Everything is torn apart in this moving novel: families, lovers, decency and indeed the narrative itself
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Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
'What We Tried to Bury Grows Here' by Julian Zabalbeascoa: traumatic Spanish Civil War impact captured. My review in yesterday's Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa: traumatic Spanish Civil War impact captured
Everything is torn apart in this moving novel: families, lovers, decency and indeed the narrative itself
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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Had a great time talking with Julian Zabalbeascoa about his excellent and illuminating debut novel about the Spanish Civil War, WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE—a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize—available now in trade paperback from Two Dollar Radio. 🎧 Mañana...
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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
▶️ NOW PLAYING... 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts. @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @twodollarradio.bsky.social
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Nineteen years ago in Madrid I wrapped up my MFA. So what a glorious feeling to be able to present What We Tried to Bury Grows Here in the city at Libreria Parent(h)esis while being in conversation with The Write Salon’s Willow Mata!
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Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🕊 In February, we publish WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE by Julian Zabalbeascoa 🕊 “[A] daring first novel.”—Alida Becker, The New York Times Pre-order here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/what...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Can't wait to be in conversation with @jamesblickspain.bsky.social at Secret Kingdoms, Madrid’s largest English-language bookshop, to launch the @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social edition of What We Tried to Bury Grows Here on March 12th at 8pm. RSVP here: www.thesecretkingdoms.net/agenda/event...
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.
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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is out now in paperback! My undying gratitude to all at @twodollarradio.bsky.social & @sevenstories.bsky.social, the readers, booksellers, reviewers, librarians, & festival coordinators, my fellow scribes, and the literary magazines that published excerpts!
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Boston peeps, join me at @agnimagazine.bsky.social's Bill Pierce at Papercuts Bookshop in JP Tuesday, February 10, for the paperback launch of What We Tried to Bury Grows Here (@twodollarradio.bsky.social).
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A cheeky February drop just for you guys!! 😉 @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social ‘s “What We Tried to Bury Grows Here” is sporting a new look next month 👀📸 ✨Pre-order✨ available NOW on our website!! Also do you think it'll grow?? 🤔🌳 #indie #indiebook #indiepress #paperback
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A high note to close out 2025. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Guggenheim scraps Basque Country expansion plan after local protests
Campaigners celebrate defeat of proposal to extend Bilbao institution into areas including nature reserve
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Disparage AI all you'd like, but it does have great taste.
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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A group of militia fighters defending Donosti (San Sebastian) from Francoist forces. The Basque town fell on 13 September 1936.
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I wrote this a year ago today, the morning after the election. Too easy to predict where we'd end up. What will spring us from this mess of our own making? No crystal ball is required either. Thank you, @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, for publishing this last year! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/14/b...
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Beyond 2024: On Resistance and Adversarial Hope - Chicago Review of Books
The morning after the 2016 presidential election, I walked my wife to work along the tree-framed median that splits east-west traffic down Commonwealth Avenue, looking with great suspicion upon those ...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Michael Jerome Plunkett's debut novel ZONE ROUGE is one of my two favorite novels of the year, so it was a joy to be able to discuss it with him for @commonmag.bsky.social! www.thecommononline.org/stop-being-p...
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Stop Being Precious About Process: Julian Zabalbeascoa interviews Michael James Plunkett
MICHAEL JEROME PLUNKETT <br> Years later, while transferring units in the Marine Corps, I kept noticing the strange dissonance between the bureaucratic language of my written orders and the very human...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A huge loss for the literary landscape of Boston and beyond. Salamander has helped launch countless writing careers. Here is to them finding a new home and being able to continue this noble and necessary work.
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Honored to have my novel be among this list of recommendations for those interested in learning more about the Spanish Civil War while visiting the Basque Country!
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Mila esker, Nick, for these kind words! You are among my ideal readers, so this means a lot. A thousand thanks!
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What We Tried To Bury Grows Here is now an audiobook! Gary Tiedemann and Raquel Beattie have turned in powerful performances! Many thanks to them and everyone else at Tantor involved in this production. You can purchase it wherever audiobooks are sold. May it be your song of the summer!
Cover for the audiobook to What We Tried to Bury Grows Here. A profile of a woman looking down while, behind her, two soldiers march off to war.
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Mila esker to Scott Schomburg for this thoughtful review in Harvard Review of my novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here (@twodollarradio.bsky.social)! www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
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What We Tried to Bury Grows Here - Harvard Review
In Julian Zabalbeascoa’s debut novel, What We Tried to Bury Grows Here, twenty narrators in twenty chapters navigate the Spanish Civil War, when, in 1936, the electoral victory of a left-wing coalitio...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I don’t often drink blackcurrant sours, but when I do, I drink A Life Anew…a beer brewed by Hot Plate Brewing Co. and inspired by my story in @onestorymag.bsky.social, which appears in a modified form in What We Tried to Bury Grows Here (@twodollarradio.bsky.social). Stay thirsty, my friends.
Holding a bottle of the beer A Life Anew at the Literary Debutante Ball.
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Fantastic article on my publisher @twodollarradio.bsky.social, who is celebrating their 20th anniversary this weekend! Here's to the next twenty! (and the twenty after that) matternews.org/culture/word...
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Two Dollar Radio turns 20 – Matter News
The Columbus-based indie publisher will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a bash at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters on Saturday, May 17.
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honorscollegeuml.bsky.social @honorscollegeuml.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Honors College's @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social was recently on the PRX/GBH radio show The World with Marco Werman, where he discussed the anniversary of the bombing of Gernika & his debut novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here. You can listen to the segment here: theworld.org/segments/202...
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Gernika was bombed 88 years ago this week by German and Italian air forces at the behest of Franco, and laid bare for all the world to see the ultimate conclusion of fascism. WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author— @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social —was on @theworld.org👇 theworld.org/segments/202...
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A novelist writes about his family's opposing sides in the Spanish Civil War - The World from PRX
The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides. T...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If you're anywhere in/near LA, I'll be in conversation with three incredible authors at the LA Times Festival of Books at 10:30 this morning.
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Gernika. It was bombed by German & Italian air forces at the behest of General Franco and laid bare for all the world to see the ultimate conclusion of fascism. I was on @theworld.org with Marco Werman to discuss it & my novel. theworld.org/segments/202...
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A novelist writes about his family's opposing sides in the Spanish Civil War - The World from PRX
The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides. T...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I read for this contest. Send them your best! salamandermag.org/contests
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🌹WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author Julian Zabalbeascoa will be at the LA Times Book Prizes Awards Ceremony & the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend — April 25 & 27! Peep all of @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social ‘s upcoming events ⬇️ 🔗 www.julianzabalbeascoa.com/tour
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Time was no friend of mine at Bookshop West Portal. The hour with @mrhwm.bsky.social passed in a few minutes. Could have kept it going into the early morning. Many thanks to the Basque Educational Organization for sponsoring the event and to all those who attended!
two writers in conversation at Bookshop West Portal.Signing copies of the What We Tried to Bury Grows Here.
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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We're delighted to announce that we've acquired @twodollarradio.bsky.social, the Midwest's finest publisher of adventurous, boundary-pushing books.
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
the cat is indeed out of the bag. meow. 💖 @sevenstories.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
For those in the Bay Area, I will be at the SF Basque Cultural Center today, April 13, presenting on & signing copies of my novel at 2:30 pm. Then, tomorrow, I'm over at Book Shop West Portal at 7 pm, where I'll be in conversation with @mrhwm.bsky.social!
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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us Thursday, 5/1 for a virtual reading with our Literary Debutantes hosted by @debutiful.bsky.social, featuring readings from Nini Berndt, @kermichele.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, Lucas Schaefer, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Lauren K. Watel, and @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social. bit.ly/4j7bCxA
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Catch WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social on the West Coast soon! 🔗 www.julianzabalbeascoa.com/tour
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A new interview is up at @onestorymag.bsky.social! Thank you to one of America's greatest literary journals and @mjyidani.bsky.social for the conversation! one-story.com/2025/03/31/s...
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Shatterproof Hope: An Interview with Julian Zabalbeascoa – One Story
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Canary hightails it out of the coal mine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Basque Educational Organization has chosen WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE as their next book club pick, and I'll be joining the conversation! This takes place virtually on Monday, March 31, 5:30-6:30 PDT. Join the party here: www.basqueeducational.org/event/book-c...
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BOOK CLUB / What We Tried to Bury Grows Here
We will be discussing What We Tried to Bury Grows Here with author Julian Zabalbeascoa. Meetings are held via Zoom. If you are not currently a BEO Book Club member, you can learn more and sign up H…
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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
ICYMI: TC Fiction Contributor Julian Zabalbeascoa's debut novel, WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE, was published in November! Check out his conversation with Blake Hammond to go behind the scenes:
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Finding Hope in Horror: Blake Hammond Interviews Julian Zabalbeascoa
JULIAN ZABALBEASCOA <br> In the novel, I tend to focus on those fighting to defend the Second Republic [...] The world’s democracies had abandoned them. Meanwhile, the insurrectionists had the…
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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"Spain’s fate in the 1930’s need not be ours." Issue 22 contributor Julian Zabalbeascoa unpacks his approach to historical fiction in a new conversation with Blake Hammond, live now at TC online. buff.ly/bsgxD04
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Finding Hope in Horror: Blake Hammond Interviews Julian Zabalbeascoa
JULIAN ZABALBEASCOA <br> In the novel, I tend to focus on those fighting to defend the Second Republic [...] The world’s democracies had abandoned them. Meanwhile, the insurrectionists had the…
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I'm at Southern New Hampshire University today chatting it up with the amazing David Moloney ("Barker House"). If you're in the neighborhood, pop on by!
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social interviewed by Blake Hammond for @commonmag.bsky.social It’s honest and inspiring — check it out! ❤️‍🔥 thecommononline.org/finding-hope...
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Finding Hope in Horror: Blake Hammond Interviews Julian Zabalbeascoa
JULIAN ZABALBEASCOA <br> The world’s democracies had abandoned those fighting to defend the Second Republic. Meanwhile, the insurrectionists had the backing of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Despite ...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I was interviewed by the incredibly talented Blake Hammond for @commonmag.bsky.social, where we discussed writing about heritage, riffing on research, and empathizing with loathsome characters. @twodollarradio.bsky.social thecommononline.org/finding-hope...
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Finding Hope in Horror: Blake Hammond Interviews Julian Zabalbeascoa
JULIAN ZABALBEASCOA <br> The world’s democracies had abandoned those fighting to defend the Second Republic. Meanwhile, the insurrectionists had the backing of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Despite ...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a @latimes.com Book Prize finalist! Mila esker to the LA Times Book Prize, their panel of writers, and the team at @twodollarradio.bsky.social for making this possible. And congratulations to my fellow nominees. I’m honored & overjoyed to be in their company.
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is an LA Times Book Prize FinalistBook covers of the five books that are finalists.
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
⚡️ BREAKING NEWS: What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize! 🔗 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thank you, Brad L of @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for making What We Tried to Bury Grows Here a Staff Pick! www.harvard.com/book/9781953...
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julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Survived the year’s first big storm. Proof of life? Me with Alida Becker’s review of What We Tried to Bury Grows Here in today’s New York Times Book Review. Mila esker, Alida Becker, @nytimes.com, and all at @twodollarradio.bsky.social!
Me holding a copy of the New York Times Book Review. Snow in fore- and background. CITGO sign blurry in the distance. Alida Becker's latest column in the New York Times.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up
With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A novel about the Spanish Civil War I'd like to read by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social reviewed in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
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