Rob Madole
Writer & translator in Berlin /// SOFT POWER with Melville House in 2026
- It’s characteristic that the product Palantir calls their “Ontology” is a “digital twin of the world” — the definitional opposite of ontological!
- burgervision
- Dostoyevsky’s Devil Admires Lev Tolstoy’s Realism
- Finnegans Wehg
- Reposted by Rob MadoleLooking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:
- fantastic piece by @ajbwells.bsky.social on Sophie Duvernoy's epic EFFINGERS translation www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
- “With its social breadth and historical depth, The Effingers casts nazism not as a fairytale triumph of evil over good but rather through [an] often incoherent mixture of desires, ideas and material conditions ... Tergit prefers detail to abstraction – and details resist grand explanations.”
- solitary men at Burgermeister listening to podcasts I am one of them
- Charles Moore is who people think Frank Gehry was
- Reposted by Rob MadoleHave you listened to our 100th episode which we posted last week yet? The founders Ross and Markus as well as some of our most starred guests talk about the beginnings of the Urban Political, and the urban situation then and now: urbanpolitical.online/100-looking-...
- tooze neologism watch: “polygloom,” coined 04.12.2025
- why is it that film makers /enthusiasts have a more catholic appreciation of their medium than book makers
- “What data ‘is’ could be just a compressed unit of something else’s interpretive decisions or technological-mnemonic limits and shortcuts, a fact lost forever in the evolution of data ontology.” newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
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- Turkey Carcass Soup
- Prophetic Dostoyevsky
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- Reposted by Rob Madolehappy birth day you li ke jazz now an d wine and y ou read non fiction and are a lawyer!
- Reposted by Rob MadoleI highly recommend Gabriel’s novel
- Reposted by Rob MadoleI first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.
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- Reposted by Rob MadolePoor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!
- Reposted by Rob MadoleInteresting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: “if you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...
- Reposted by Rob MadoleBerlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.
- Reposted by Rob Madole"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...
- Reposted by Rob Madole'a remarkable new novel ... think In Cold Blood meets Grand Theft Auto with the psychological complexity and moral anguish of Dostoevsky and inputs from third-wave feminists.' Another wonderful review of @vijaykhurana.bsky.social's The Passenger Seat. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
- early version of Moviefone introduced by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1952. You'd call 115 to hear the movie listings played back on an "Assmann" magnetic disc recorder www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ8I...
- Reposted by Rob MadoleViktor Orbán's Hungary: scourge of the EU, role model for the US right. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about how the Orbán regime seeks legitimacy by telling dodgy stories about the 20th century—stories not all so different from those that we've been telling in the West thebaffler.com/salvos/house...
- not a single podcast about Lucky Per in the entire Anglosphere .... outrageous
- Reposted by Rob MadoleJust so you know, despite the CDU’s culture cuts, there are still some cheap seats at Berlin‘s theaters…my most recent column for @exberliner.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...
- BREAKING NEWS: BERLIN
- great Chartbook today #toozeheads
- three to go
- Reposted by Rob MadoleVijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.
- Reposted by Rob Madolemicrophones in late Weimar films Spies (1928) | Woman in the Moon (1929) | No Answer from F.P. 1 (1932) | L'atlantide (1932)
- where were you when they came for Schröders Data Shop
- “If we maintain our faith in God, our love of freedom, and superior global air power, I think we can look to the future with confidence.”
- free market waffles
- Reposted by Rob MadoleFor the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature. www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
- terrifying family
- “so schmeckt frische”
- there are also toilets here
- Reposted by Rob MadoleI also finished @gabrielflynn.bsky.social's book, Poor Ghosts last night, and it's incredible. A brilliant and moving novel about class, family, home and the changing face of Manchester. Out in May – don't sleep on it!
- i was suckered by a dropshipper with the world's worst book design
- picture doesn't capture that this is A4 format
- synonyms for train
- Trump Reculo
- "I know you won't believe that I've changed; you'll say 'That's the twentieth time you've said it, and there's no good in you and you're the emptiest of fellows.' But no, this time I've changed quite differently from the way I used to change before." —Tolstoy
- Tombstone that reads “I submit my incentive was romance”
- “Just try and remember all Chekhov's different heroes . . . Doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, lecturers, landlords, shopkeepers, industrialists, nannies, lackeys, students, civil servants of every rank, cattle-dealers, tram-conductors, marriage-brokers, sextons, bishop, peasants, workers . . .”
- ” . . . cobblers, artists' models, horticulturists, zoologists, innkeepers, gamekeepers, prostitutes, fishermen, lieutenants, corporals, artists, cooks, writers, janitors, nuns, soldiers, midwives, prisoners on the Sakhalin Islands.” “That's enough!" Sokolov finally shouted out.
- From Vasily Grossman's LIFE AND FATE
- J. Edgar Hoover introduces Grandpa Pete to day drinking
- today's book haul
