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Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983373
Balint on Zipperstein's new bio of Roth: "Roth curated Penguinâs 'Writers From the Other Europe,' smuggling masters from behind the Iron Curtain into American sight: Tadeusz Borowski, Danilo KiĆĄ, Milan Kundera and, crucially, Bruno Schulz."
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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âPhilip Rothâ Review: The Masks of a Writer
Rothâs fiction drew heavily on his own life and literary reputation in ways that blurred imagination and reality.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/philip-roth-review-the-masks-of-a-writer-daee3b85?st=7dB1cZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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đđș On this day in 1956, Hungarians rose up against Soviet occupation â and showed solidarity with the đ”đ± Polish (âlengyelâ) nation, whose June 1956 PoznaĆ protests had been crushed. đ„ Footage: Blinken OSA Archivum, post-colorized by Colorful History (SzĂnes TörtĂ©nelem) YouTube channel
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Keep an eye out for this one from Hadji Bakara and
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Writing for Dark Times
A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center. At Amnesty Internationalâs headquarters in London hangs a large copy of Seamus Heaneyâs âFrom the Republic of Conscience,â ...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo265296051.html#:~:text=Hadji%20Bakara's%20Writing%20for%20Dark,the%20history%20of%20human%20rights
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When I was researching my book in Prague, Ivan KlĂma and his wife Helena invited me into their home and talked to me for hours over zĂĄzvorovĂĄ limonĂĄda. Their hospitality was just one reason their apartment was a first stop for visiting US writers like Philip Roth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
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Ivan Klima, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/world/europe/ivan-klima-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE8.31Ld.xa2c6QsSP-7c&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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This was a great excuse to finally read Rileyâs book on Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe, and man is it a useful corrective on civil society, democracy, and authoritarianism (even if I donât agree with all of it so far)
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about 2 months ago
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Dissent Magazine
about 2 months ago
New online: John Ganz (
@lioneltrolling.bsky.social
) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-battle-over-civil-society/
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âAntipolitics is the ethos of civil society, and civil society is the antithesis of military society.â -György KonrĂĄd
about 2 months ago
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Eva Payne
about 2 months ago
Come hang out at
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Kino Lucerna, Dec. 21, 2013
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Incredible. Would be so interested to see a deep dive on the period, roughly, between â68 and â89.
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This review made me very curious about what these authors would make of a different liberal socialist tradition from the 20th century: attempts to liberalize state socialism from inside the Eastern bloc (Prague Spring, etc.).
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2 months ago
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Thanks for this,
@platanoclassics.bsky.social
!
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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An Open Letter to Our Students: Universities Do Not Deserve You
At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should fight for.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letter-students-academia-right-intellectual-life/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMtQdJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF5NUV0dlA3T3BCcVZUSzNnAR6Vqyf_2oMRl_FG6iwMwRTs0Q9Qev7CS6N2jERiQr5HR2E4di7NUyFJYa7ZVQ_aem_Hf4NtuCEv0wSJw8QT4744A#
2 months ago
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Public Books
3 months ago
New at PB: In conversation with
@carolyndever.bsky.social
,
@devoney.bsky.social
talks about her new book âWild for Austen,â covering everything from sexuality, erotica, and love to class, moms, dads, and the power of naughtiness.
www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...
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Alex Zucker
3 months ago
â68 Publishers âwas far and away the most important of the Ă©migrĂ© publishing houses,â said Derek Sayer. âIt basically kept Czech literature alive.â And, Mr. Sayer recalled, Mr. Ć kvoreckĂœ âwas very insistentâ that â[Zdena SalivarovĂĄ] was the one who kept it going.ââ Unpaywalled:
archive.ph/7JJjL
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
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Zdena Salivarova, Publisher Who Kept Czech Literature Alive, Dies at 91
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/books/zdena-salivarova-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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THE NONCONFORMISTS made the Allen Ginsberg Project's weekly round-up:
allenginsberg.org/2025/08/f-a-...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 732 - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Big news on the William Burroughs front this week â the discovery of his â hitherto unknown â third wife! David S Wills breaks the story on Beatdom. Â See here for an exclusive excerpt from Thomas Anto...
https://allenginsberg.org/2025/08/f-a-22-732/
3 months ago
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There were no apocalyptic haboobs in Bulgaria this summer. Highly recommend applying to this institute co-sponsored by
@acls1919.bsky.social
and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.
www.acls.org/news/acls-co...
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ACLS Convenes Scholars of East Central and Southeastern Europe for 2025 Summer Institute in Bulgaria
The residency offered 15 scholars time and space to research and writing in a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting.
https://www.acls.org/news/acls-convenes-scholars-of-east-central-and-southeastern-europe-for-2025-summer-institute-in-bulgaria/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMatvxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoPQbd5gwNCjXODW_IjPWIGOjcXsbdoDDPN5Lbfcp4Em6N7mwV9zxVpE_NF-_aem_xgkXaPX0sVck_Pos9Hc0Vw
3 months ago
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Love raising resilient kids in Phoenix in 2025.
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3 months ago
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Jeffrey J Cohen
3 months ago
We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact.
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...
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"The Myth of the Useless Humanist" vs "Humanities myths, busted"
a letter to colleagues
https://futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-of-the-useless-humanist-vs-humanities-myths-busted
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)
4 months ago
Promo vid. Links to other vids in fundraiser page.
youtube.com/shorts/Npmj3...
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Oy Kay Greetings From Esti And Yossi!
YouTube video by Oy Kay TV
https://youtube.com/shorts/Npmj3EfJwnc?feature=shared
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Sam Cohen
4 months ago
Pre-order!
www.amazon.com/Banning-Book...
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Banning Books in America: Not a How-to
Banning Books in America: Not a How-to [Cohen, Samuel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Banning Books in America: Not a How-to
https://www.amazon.com/Banning-Books-America-Not-How/dp/B0FGNDDRCC/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=FJ7I6ULDWUDG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.15DzCsyLGNUozfURMs__Xw.uIUFhGew72fj746ASxVyCvSWo3CPg7Mt1DPtf3lIZYs&dib_tag=se&keywords=banning+books+in+America+Cohen&qid=1754248292&sprefix=banning+books+in+america+cohen%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-1
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An incredible opportunity to think alongside other scholars about an important topic at the Institute for Advanced Study, CEU in Budapest. The next theme will be "Modalities of Resilience and Resistance: Academia and Society in Illiberal Times."
ias.ceu.edu/joint-budape...
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Budapest Open Society Fellowship on the topic of Modalities of Resilience and Resistance | Institute for Advanced Study
https://ias.ceu.edu/joint-budapest-campus-fellowship
4 months ago
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Caleb Crain
4 months ago
I wrote something about dissent and the motive for speaking out.
calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-motive...
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Nick Kapur
5 months ago
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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Sam Cohen
5 months ago
In more book news: who says before there's a final cover or description is too early to post a pre-order link, especially when it shows the low, low price of $17.96?
www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
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Banning Books in America
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-books-in-america-9798765138083/
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Brian Hochman
5 months ago
Our edition of The Church Committee Report has a cover. Coming Jan '26.
@mguariglia.bsky.social
and I both hope its relevance diminishes between now and then.
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Matthew Guariglia
5 months ago
Excited to share the *incredible* cover for the Church Committee Report! The first version of the 1975 report on illegal surveillance & the national security state ever published by a mainstream press. Abridged/introduced by
@brianhochman.bsky.social
and I. Published by W.W. Norton January 2026.
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Granta
5 months ago
âA number is a mystery, which God solves.â For Bloomsday, James Joyce and Adolf Hoffmeister argue about a Czech translation of Finnegans Wake, in a rare interview from 1930.
granta.com/the-game-of-...
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Sam Cohen
5 months ago
Great review of
@briankgoodman.bsky.social
The Nonconformists
read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-ce...
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The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain by Brian K. Goodman
It might come as a surprise that a book that traces the various literary histories of Pragueâs counterculture turns out to be one of the most compelling monographs in the field of American literary st...
https://read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-century-lit/article-abstract/71/2/191/400603/The-Nonconformists-American-and-Czech-Writers?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Department of English at Arizona State University
6 months ago
This summer, ASU English professor
@briankgoodman.bsky.social
is conducting research in Bulgaria with a prestigious
@acls1919.bsky.social
fellowship. Goodman's work on the project was first enabled with seed funding from ASUâs Humanities Institute. Learn more:
ow.ly/WzQq50VTxRf
#ASUHumanities
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Incredible book! đ
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7 months ago
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Reviewed!
tinyurl.com/22ena7s6
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7 months ago
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Brandi K. Adams
7 months ago
I just want to personally thank all of my colleagues teaching in community colleges, particularly in Arizona. You have produced some of the most gifted students Iâve taught over the last few years
@asuenglish.bsky.social
. Thank you for your amazing teaching and brilliant work.
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Book is 40% off over on the
@harvardpress.bsky.social
site!
www.hup.harvard.edu/history-book...
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History Books - Harvard University Press
Explore the latest scholarship from the field of history.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/history-books?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oah-2025-virtual-exhibit&utm_term=hup-subscribers&utm_content=text&page=3
7 months ago
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Sasha Senderovich đ»
8 months ago
My
@nehgov.bsky.social
grant âIn the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Unionâ was canceled by âDOGE.â The project doesnât support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.â Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.
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"Life After Kafka depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild life in a new one."
www.blpress.org/books/life-a...
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Life After Kafka
Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because we believe that science and the humanities are natural companions ...
https://www.blpress.org/books/life-after-kafka/
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8 months ago
Heartfelt thanks to Fergal, Selma, Uilleam, and Maya for shortlisting LIFE AFTER KAFKA for this year's EBRD Literature Prize. I am always grateful when readers, including those in the role of "judge," appreciate my work. It's also a pleasure to be in the company of translators I count as friends!
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Headed to Bulgaria this summer to think and write about antipolitical literature and the spread of "Epistemic Mistrust" with other
@acls1919.bsky.social
fellows. Thanks to the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for hosting!
news.asu.edu/b/20250321-a...
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ASU English professor selected to participate in American Council of Learned Societies 2025 summer institute | ASU News
Arizona State University Assistant Professor of English Brian Goodman has been selected to participate in the prestigious 2025 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe, c...
https://news.asu.edu/b/20250321-asu-english-professor-selected-participate-american-council-learned-societies-2025
8 months ago
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Gerry Canavan
8 months ago
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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8 months ago
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
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I wrote a slightly unhinged essay review for ALH on DeLilloâs walls, Albanian bunkers, seed vaults, Cold War nostalgia, Tom Clancy, Philip K. Dick, Fredric Jameson, and the half-life of all cultural forms. You can access âAfter Cold War Studiesâ here:
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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After Cold War Studies
Abstract. How should we make sense of the literature and culture of the post-Cold War era now that this period appears to have come to an end? This essay r
https://academic.oup.com/alh/article/37/1/172/8051934?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=alh&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=49fb7d2c-ceff-4e53-bf9b-e42410d3c1bb
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
âThe risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of accommodation.â New: Mark Greif on the war against the bureaucracy.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif
There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other sideânot in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-fork-in-the-road/
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Well, I outlived Kafka. Please, no cards. đ
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www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump
9 months ago
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