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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 20h

💥 A Radical Proposal: Literary Translations as Workers Brought to you by the Literary Translators Division of @nwu.org ✊ With @jeremytiang.bsky.social @kirajosefsson.bsky.social @soleildahveed.bsky.social @francesriddle.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/V7HS8nl...

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2026 Day of Translation: Panel 3: A Radical Proposal

YouTube video by The Center for Fiction

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Harper Zacharias @harperzacharias.com · 02/10/2026

Jewish Currents not only produced a phenomenal critique of PEN, it also did the rigorous research and fact checking that PEN—my former employer!—failed to do in its “report” on publishing trends for Jewish Lit. And the data is hyperlinked!

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A nice review of Small Comfort in The Hindu: "It starts with the idea of empathy, but by the end, it leaves you wondering whether any of us is truly incorruptible in the face of our need for money" www.thehindu.com/books/books-...

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Review | ‘Small Comfort’ by Ia Genberg is all about the corrupting influence of money

A sharp, metafictional dive into money’s moral pull, five interlinked stories explore power, empathy, and the price of success.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/09/2026

thinking about all the young people who left ban states and came to New York for care, and now

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Råkade visst importera debatten och fick skriva lite mer om detta med bygghjälmar i ett svar till Rasmus Landström: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/lnr...

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Fokusera på Starbucks-baristan med rosa hår

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Excited to talk shop with my union comrades in Sept 📝🗳️❤️‍🔥

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Signe Krantz @signekrantz.swifties.social · 31/07/2026

När miljardärer kan tvinga organisationer till tystnad och offentliga ursäkter är yttrandefriheten hotad.

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Frågar idag, med resten av USA, om arbetarklassen måste vara en man i bygghjälm och svällande muskler: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/K8b...

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Hör en högavlönad läkare till arbetarklassen?

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Borde vi inte älska att betala skatt? Om de nya tunnelbaneskärmarna, fossiler, och hur underbart New York är just nu: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Okz...

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Ilskan över skärmarna i tunnelbanan förenar oss

KIRA JOSEFSSON Borde vi inte älska att betala skatt?

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Burcu Sahin: "om Sverige nu ska börja väga människors rätt efter vandel vore det kanske på tiden att också fråga vem som egentligen tagit mest från det här landet" www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/M7d...

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Pladdret om invandring distraherar från de rika

BURCU SAHIN om bristande vandel

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Ali Esbati @aliesbati.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Skriver i Aftonbladet idag, 15 år efter den högerextrema terrorn på Utøya. Om det som drev fram den och var Sverige är nu. Läs gärna! www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/vrx...

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Utøya borde ha lärt oss att välja bort rasismen

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Igår kom även det här uttalandet från Vita Huset, som understryker utvecklingen jag beskriver i min text www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/bOQ...

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Fantasin om Antifa blir en möjlighet för Trump

Nu kan de komma åt den breda vänstern

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Är på Aftonbladet några veckor i sommar och börjar med en text om kriminaliseringen av antifascistiskt motstånd i USA - som kanske har relevans även för ett svenskt klimat där man pratar om huruvida det är tillåtet att hata polisen: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/bOQ...

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The thread includes multiple links to orgs that urgently need funds, everyone with a “Protect the Dolls” shirt better be sending money

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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 20/05/2026

We love seeing our members’ work out in the wild (and supporting independent bookstores)! @kirajosefsson.bsky.social P.S. If you’re a literary translator like Kira, did you know our new Literary Translators Division is organizing for better working conditions? 👀 nwu.org/toc

A hand holds up the book Small Comfort by Ia Genberg in front of a chalkboard sign.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/05/2026

That’s three, can we get a NYT trend piece

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"What if you actually disappeared when you lost your sense of self? What if it were physically dangerous?" Elisa Shoenberger's interview with Hanna Johansson on "Body Double" (Translated by Kira Josefsson, @catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/08/b...

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Disorientation and Uncanny in Hanna Johansson’s “Body Double” - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Hanna Johansson's new book, "Body Double."

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

@esthermavis.bsky.social ’s review of Hanna Johansson’s BODY DOUBLE, explores the novel’s depiction of female intimacy and the eeriness that emerges when our sense of self erodes. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

An image of the book cover for BODY DOUBLE to the right of black text that reads: BOOK REVIEW “Josefsson’s translation maintains this enigmatic and arresting quality; there is a sense that each word is carefully chosen and calibrated. There are no coincidences, each repetition is deliberate—a code for the reader to crack.” “‘Phantom Pain’: Ghostly Encounters in Hanna Johansson’s Body Double” By Esther King

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/04/2026

Jesus wept. I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence. Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi

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Rolf Skoglund @rskog.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Bryt alla diplomatiska, militära och ekonomiska förbindelser med skurkstaterna USA och Israel omedelbart. Sverige är i nuläget medskyldigt till varenda förbrytelse i Palestina, Libanon och Iran.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is why using copyrighted work to training the models is not fair use, btw. They will just spit out straightforward plagiarism and I suspect it’s as difficult to prevent that, for the same reason it’s difficult to improve the error rate

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23/03/2026

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy UK pub day to SMALL COMFORT! Swedish critics have called this Ia's best novel so far. I love all my children equally, but they're not wrong to say it's a special one. Out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ia-ge...

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Small Comfort

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 'An exciting read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW 'I will be thinking ...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/02/2026

it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I loved Ia Genberg's The Details so I'm happy to see Small Comfort, a collection of linked short stories from @headlinebooks.bsky.social, on the #InternationalBooker2026 list - but frustrated that I have to wait another month to read it :( Congratulations to translator @kirajosefsson.bsky.social

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Feeling like the world's luckiest translator to be working with Ia again, and to be read so generously by the judges, who really get the book: "Breathtakingly original, profound but with a delicious dose of irreverence" thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Out in UK in mid-March, US this summer!

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Small Comfort | The Booker Prizes

Intricately built and wickedly humorous, these five interconnected short stories are all about one thing: money

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 28/01/2026

“I didn’t read THE DETAILS because I was h*rny—I read it because I was teaching.” New: the first entry in Miss Translation, a regular column by Bela Shayevich. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Introducing Miss Translation | Bela Shayevich

You may have noticed that this column feels a little incestuous (there is that Saskia Vogel again . . .) but that’s our world in translation. It’s small, and its actors, often by necessity, are prolif...

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Journalistikens roll när någon säger att det regnar är inte att rapportera det som en sanning, utan att titta ut genom fönstret för att se om det verkligen regnar. Även utrikesjournalistiken måste leva upp till den standarden.

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"det som började som en kritik av moralism har gradvis förskjutits till en kritik av moral – och idag till en kritik av affekt som sådan. Det är inte längre bara godhet som misstänkliggörs, utan själva möjligheten att tala etiskt." www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/8p6...

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Att bry sig om Gaza är inte godhetssignalering

Det är inte poesin som är problemet – utan kritiken mot känslor

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Skrev om Renee Nicole Good och ett land där döden är billig och allestädes närvarande: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/7pK...

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ICE-agenten var tränad att se henne som ett hot

KIRA JOSEFSSON: USA satsar mer på straff och våld än omsorg

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Skrev om Renee Nicole Good och ett land där döden är billig och allestädes närvarande: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/7pK...

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ICE-agenten var tränad att se henne som ett hot

KIRA JOSEFSSON: USA satsar mer på straff och våld än omsorg

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🎉HYPER by Agri Ismaïl is out today!🎉 👉👉A hypermodern family saga: Dubai luxury malls, algorithms, corded radios, and desperate efforts to locate meaning and identify within the numb isolation of modern immigrant life. A stunning debut by @agri.bsky.social 👈👈

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

skrev om ostadig mark under fötterna: amerikansk paranoia, misstänksamhetens användbarhet, och tillit www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/q6L...

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Vem kan man lita på när Kennedy är experten?

KIRA JOSEFSSON: Konspirationsrädsla har alltid format USA:s politik

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

skrev om ostadig mark under fötterna: amerikansk paranoia, misstänksamhetens användbarhet, och tillit www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/q6L...

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Vem kan man lita på när Kennedy är experten?

KIRA JOSEFSSON: Konspirationsrädsla har alltid format USA:s politik

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Protest sign on Route 4 in Paramus, New Jersey reads “ICE murders woman in MN”

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

BODY DOUBLE is on LitHub's most anticipated list! "Okay Persona… okay Ingmar Bergman… okay Scandinavian literature about lesbians who start turning into each other…. a strange, twisty story about obsession and identity and how easy it can be to lose yourself completely" lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026

After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

THIS THIS THIS all of this especially this:

The concern arises when algospeak also reflects a larger softening of language, one driven by the desire to pursue safety over reality, dilution over strength. Here, the algorithm is a stand in for something larger in the form of a fear of cultural censure if people speak frankly. Algospeak becomes a form of anticipatory compliance that in the process asserts a new status quo. There is a fear of being too confrontational, of making people uncomfortable. Using distancing and often infantilizing language like algospeak to make a concept seem more relatable—or less frightening—to those who might be alienated by language deemed confrontational serves only those in positions of power. Any conversation about the rise of algospeak should, can, and does include explicit criticism about the rise and cultural implications of softened language.

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Hanna Johansson's Body Double is one of New York Mag's most anticipated books of 2026! "the queer doppelgänger story I’ve been dying to read": www.vulture.com/article/2026...

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23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2026

New Ben Lerner, George Saunders gets metaphysical, and Tayari Jones makes her big post–American Marriage return.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

zohran quoting and then rejecting "the era of big government is over," the line that captured the zenith of clintonian neoliberalism, is highly symbolic

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

"not simply about the costs we make free, but the lives we fill with freedom" this is ittttttt there is no freedom without equality and the right should not have a monopoly on that word

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