Reposted by Susan BernofskyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is how you know we need a wealth tax 1299198766615
Reposted by Susan BernofskyJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835222210
Reposted by Susan BernofskyPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Among the 18,000 skulls and human remains stored in the basement of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris are those of Guinean anti-colonial fighters." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...lemonde.frGuinea asks France to return skull of Bokar Biro, who led resistance against French colonizationGuinea is seeking to reclaim the skulls of the last ruler of the theocratic state of Fouta-Djallon and those of three of his close companions, nearly 130 years after their murder by French colonial tr... 220792
Reposted by Susan BernofskyJazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026New w/ Maia Spoto and Jill Cowan: Body-camera video and court evidence show federal immigration agents using slurs and targeting Latinos in Chicago and Los Angeles. But whether the tactics are legal remains an open question now being tested in cases across the country www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...nytimes.comNew Evidence Shows Federal Agents Using Racial Slurs During Immigration Sweeps (Gift Article)Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles 1614371
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It'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: bookshop.org/a/97775/9780...bookshop.orgThe Magic MountainThomas Mann's supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally res... 44710
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The 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. 1/4 120
Reposted by Susan BernofskyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?" 643773655
Reposted by Susan BernofskyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...thedissident.newsExclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans PeopleAn exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti... 5337521492
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Just 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] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comBard’s board voted to end Botstein’s tenure as president after independent review of Epstein tiesBotstein announced his retirement on the day the results of the inquiry into his connections with Epstein were released 172
Reposted by Susan BernofskyDeutsches Haus at NYU @deutscheshausnyu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Please join us on 2/26 at 6 PM for the English-language book launch of "Sanderling" ("Ahnen: Ein Zeitreisetagebuch") and a conversation with the author, Anne Weber, the translator @neilblackadder.bsky.social, and moderated by @tesslewis.bsky.social. Details & RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sanderling...eventbrite.com"Sanderling:" An Evening with Anne Weber, Neil Blackadder, and Tess LewisPlease join us for the book presentation of "Sanderling," and a conversation among Anne Weber, Neil Blackadder, and Tess Lewis 012
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Y’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. 1/2 69510
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 28/11/2025BREAKING: 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. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...utotherescue.blogspot.comMLA and BDS 9: Letter by Liron Mor Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me... 071
Reposted by Susan BernofskySarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...utotherescue.blogspot.comMLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me... 0114
Reposted by Susan BernofskyVeronika Fuechtner @verofu.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Looking forward to continuing the conversation with the brilliant translationista Susan Bernofsky about The Magic Mountain, which has been going on for not quite seven years yet... www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ve...goethe.deBook Talk: Susan Bernofsky and Veronika Fuechtner on Thomas Mann - Goethe-Institut USATue, 11/25/2025 – GEGENÜBER Talks – Literature Across Borders 042
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 19/11/2025In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comThomas Mann’s Pessimistic HumanismWhat can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? 1247
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Apropos 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.zohranfornyc.comEndorsements | Zohran for NYCZohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers. 2100
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Did your rabbi sign that wretched letter (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) wrongly accusing Mamdani of "Delegitimiz[ing] the Jewish community and encourag[ing] and exacerbat[ing] hostility toward Judaism and Jews"?!? This letter claims that ... 130
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 10/10/2025The @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). nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o... 1/7nytimes.comOpinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It. 140
Reposted by Susan BernofskyMark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.next.frame.io6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io 1342781631
Reposted by Susan BernofskyRutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 08/10/2025This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: loom.ly/BDXasRY 6632250
Reposted by Susan BernofskyMark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’ 24064801795
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 06/10/2025🧵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 getting 160
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Civility Is a Fantasy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Civility Is a Fantasy 010
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Grateful 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. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Struggles for Free Expression on Campus 0139
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Can 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! serve.aliforneycenter.org/twilight-twi...serve.aliforneycenter.orgLayoutServe: Serve dance. Serve food. Serve love. 001
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I'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/ 010
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I 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. klwave.or.kr/klw/magazine... 1103
Reposted by Susan BernofskyJeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 02/09/2025As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it). Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comColumbia punished our kids for protesting against the genocide in Gaza. We condemn the university’s cowardiceWe are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions 510036
Reposted by Susan BernofskyDaniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars. 119164595182
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Excited 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. arts.columbia.edu/events/being... 0197
Reposted by Susan BernofskyCenter for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 12/08/2025Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote. Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio... 12010
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Defections matter: “All authoritarian regimes rely on support from key institutions in society … When members of these pillars stop cooperating with the regime […] it becomes difficult or impossible for autocrats to stay in power.” @mariajstephan.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Susan BernofskyAlex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Defections matter: “All authoritarian regimes rely on support from key institutions in society … When members of these pillars stop cooperating with the regime […] it becomes difficult or impossible for autocrats to stay in power.” @mariajstephan.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/113995/colle...justsecurity.orgBig Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat AuthoritarianismThe journey from individual angst to collective action takes time, vision, and commitment. It is also the pathway to victory. 021
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The Swiss newspaper Der Bund that printed Robert Walser's first poems in 1898 just reviewed the German translation of my Walser biography 🔄 www.derbund.ch/robert-walse...derbund.chNeue Biografie: Robert Walser tappte immer wieder in die Falle des AussenseitertumsDie US-amerikanische Germanistin Susan Bernofsky hat ein Buch über den sonderbarsten aller Schweizer Autoren geschrieben. Darin untersucht sie, wie zielstrebig er war – und woran er scheiterte. 0124
Reposted by Susan BernofskyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Everything was fine until Trump decided to unleash violent raids w/o grounds in elementary schools, shopping areas, & peaceful public spaces. ICE then illegally blocked Members of Congress entry into the facilities they are disappearing people into, escalating the situation. Let’s start there. 199159682687
Reposted by Susan BernofskyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge. 4664881511138
Reposted by Susan BernofskyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law. 136910265721944
Reposted by Susan BernofskyDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Good to know one of the U.S. President's main influencers on national security policy is calling for actual genocide (65 mil is the total Latino population of the U.S.) 21435171279
Reposted by Susan BernofskySam Mednick @smednick.bsky.social · 02/07/2025US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza. The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there. apnews.com/article/pale...apnews.comUS contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in GazaAmerican contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso... 6189145
Reposted by Susan Bernofskyelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/07/2025So that’s a Sikh activist in Canada, a Sikh activist in Pakistan and a Sikh activist in the UK, all murdered. A fourth, a Sikh activist in the US, survived an assassination attempt. We gonna pretend Modi isn’t ordering hits on dissidents outside of India?theguardian.comSikh activist who died in UK could have been poisoned, says pathologistFamily of Avtar Singh Khanda, who was thought to be on Indian authorities’ radar and died in 2023, call for inquest 0543178
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 02/07/2025TFW your biography of a great German-language author gets translated into German, and you're waiting nervously to see what German-language readers will make of it, and the first article finally comes out, and it's a rave review! www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/rober...sueddeutsche.deRobert Walser, großer Dichter des Kleinen, in der Biografie von Susan BernofskyThomas Mann, W. G. Sebald, Christian Morgenstern haben ihn verehrt: Wer Robert Walser noch nicht liebt, lernt es durch eine neue Biografie. 070
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Wanderungen mit Robert Walser!!!!! My Walser biography, CLAIRVOYANT OF THE SMALL, is now out in German, from @suhrkamp.de, in a beautiful translation by Michael Adrian: HELLSEHER IM KLEINEN: DAS LEBEN ROBERT WALSERS 4173
Reposted by Susan BernofskyIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2025So weird that Dems who said Trump won because Dems weren’t focusing enough on young voters and kitchen table issues are actively opposing a candidate who won the NYC mayoral primary doing just that. Almost as if that’s not really the concern… 13642112
Reposted by Susan BernofskyIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2025A few years ago, I warned that we were entering a Second Nadir. Just a few months into Trump's second term, we are in it. I spent the last few months reporting on the in a once-a-century battle for civil rights being waged by the Trump Administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m... 618231
Reposted by Susan BernofskyIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...nytimes.comHow Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months 5726511002
Reposted by Susan BernofskyBarry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Today is Pride Day in Chicago. 444774
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Thrilled to have gotten to co-translate this beautiful short story by Sharon Dodua Otoo. It starts off innocently enough, and then things quickly spiral into ever more reality-bending complexity. (Also check out her novel ADA'S ROOM, trans. @jpolizei.bsky.social.) thebaffler.com/fiction/tim-otoothebaffler.comTim | Sharon Dodua OtooEverything’s going to be fine. 061
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Launch event for EXOPHONY by Yoko Tawada, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. July 1 at Books are Magic in Brooklyn. Who's in? RSVP below. mailchi.mp/ndbooks/exop... 043
