My new podcast, MONKEY MIND, is out! It’s the podcast that brings you bite-sized audio essays — fifteen-minute episodes that are stuffed with stories and nuggets of knowledge. 1/4

I'm especially honored to be part of the volume celebrating the 20th anniversary of David Damrosch's "What Is World Literature?", in such great company as @madsrt.bsky.social, Gisèle Sapiro, Francesca Orsini, Delia Ungureanu, and David Damrosch himself!

New article out—open access! While World Literature celebrates the circulation of books, I survey literary works that, for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, express their resistance to circulation. How do stories stick—or get stuck? brill.com/view/journal...

Started work on The Descent of Inana. Very excited about this project. A strange text—so simple on the surface, so complex underneath...

just remembered this incredible drawing by Onfim, a Russian six-year-old kid who lived about 800 years ago and whose homework was serendipitously preserved in the frozen soil here, he depicts himself on horseback, killing his teacher

still the best review I've ever gotten