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Don't forget Gaza and the West Bank. Don't fall for Israel's brazen pyrotechnics in Iran. Israel is delaying and hedging, hemming and hawing, just hoping to confuse the world with discussions on whether Ayatollah Khamenei must die. This is a diversion (and that makes all the

This is systematic extermination

Considering all the great books out there receiving little to no attention, I think it's irresponsible to publish takedowns of badly written books, such reviews at best merely bringing more attention to those books, ironically enough. Succès de scandale 101, in other words.

On the longest day of the year I like to go out in the evening with my camera, but it has been grey and raining all day with more tomorrow (and every drop desperately needed), so here's a photo from earlier this week. Happy summer solstice.

She dreamed of becoming a journalist. Yaqeen (12) was killed by Israel in Gaza.

here is a great Iranian song that garnered over 255 million views on YouTube after it became viral when people around the world made reaction videos to it. The singer, Mohsen Yeganeh, was smeared and boycotted by Zionists for making a song against the genocidal Israeli death-cult

ICYMI, I wrote about Evald Flisar's absurd and astute tribute to the literary life. Istros Books A life lost in stories: My Kingdom is Dying by Evald Flisar roughghosts.com/2025/06/19/a-l…

During labour, women breathe through the pain. Amid excruciating pain and exhaustion, they cannot stop, they must push to bring life into this world. Same is happening to Humanity. Today we must breathe through the pain and push all together, till we break the siege on Gaza

Summertime

“There is something about only being able to get lost when you’re not thinking about it”: Natalja’s Stories by Inger Christensen, tr. by Denise Newman New Directions roughghosts.com/2025/06/22/the…

ICYMI: 《 […] winners come out crowned and rewarded with edifying prizes (a subscription to physical training lessons), a novel (which can only be Robbe-Grillet’s Voyeur), or useful prizes (a pair of nylons, five thousand francs).* 》 Quotation: Striptease by Roland Barthes

Keep darkness away from light otherwise even the light will turn dark

When I returned to my birthplace my father's house and mother's voice were gone. —Abbas Kiarostami #StopWarOnIran

Delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Big Other Book Awards! bigother.com/2025/06/22/ann…

The Bone Horse dances tonight. #Folklore #StJohnsEve

ICYMI, I wrote about Inger Christensen's shape-shifting novella Natalja's Stories, translated by Denise Newman. “There is something about only being able to get lost when you’re not thinking about it”: Natalja’s Stories by Inger Christensen roughghosts.com/2025/06/22/the…

Tehran. After 3am. Israel is bombing all over district 6 & 7 of Tehran. Home to 600,000, the area houses the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, which has the largest collection of Francis Bacon paintings in the world. The area is also home to many governmental buildings.