Sophie Hughes

2 months ago | asymptotejournal.com | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025In the early 2010s, a specific gastronomic corner of the internet flourished alongside the rise of the Instagram aesthetic; food blogging evolved beyond sites run by home cooks from around the world, and social media brought its democratization to full swing. I too was among the converted.

2 months ago | theappalachianonline.com | Leah Boone |Sophie Hughes

College is a big transition for first-year students, as for many of them it’s their first time living on their own or with a roommate. There are several responsibilities that come with day-to-day life; some people take them on early and some people take them on later. Unfortunately, this can cause issues.

Feb 26, 2025 | indianprinterpublisher.com | IPP Desk |Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Christian Kracht

The International Booker Prize 2025 recently announced its longlist. The longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – was chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter. The other judges are: poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi; writer and publishing director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal; author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur; and singer-songwriter Beth Orton.

Feb 13, 2025 | thebookerprizes.com | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes

A taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence – scathing and affecting in equal measureMillennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s 24-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media.

Dec 10, 2024 | prod--journal.elifesciences.org | Simei Go |Constantinos Demetriou |Sophie Hughes |Giampiero Valenzano

eLife assessment This valuable manuscript provides an interesting account documenting the role of resident CD56(br) NK cells in driving interaction with dendritic cells that attract CD8+ T cells to the pancreas cancer tumor microenvironment (TME). The work convincingly illustrates how irradiation combined with CCR5i and PD1 blockade leads to a reduction in pancreatic cancer growth that correlates with a reduction in Treg cells and enhancement of NK and CD8 T cells in the TME.