Spent my birthday rereading this treasure. Glyn Williams was a wonderful historian.

I mean, what do I know? But this feels like a voice of reason www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than READING." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

keenon.substack.com/p/episode-23... optimistic words from Harvard's Martin Puchner on the long term role of technology in democratizing education

If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

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How did I live before I discovered The History of English Podcast? Just so fantastic. @englishhistpod.bsky.social

My current and, sadly, last review for The Washington Post, as it retrenches and bows and eliminates its book section. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...

I loved your book so much and have told everyone I know about it. Thank you for writing it!!! I’m forever obsessed with Tupaia speaking to the Māori and them understanding him

... Transmitting an account of ... Voyage from ... To this island ... Natives ... I hope some of the other pages are easier to read. Love your prev books!

@cathomps.bsky.social's book "Sea People" is a fascinating search into the lives and origins of the Pacific peoples. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

For Polynesia more broadly I can’t recommend Sea People by Christina Thompson enough!! Thoroughly researched and compelling writing

New cool research on ancient populations (funded by NIH and NSF) news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

🤔 if you’re not reading this guy you are missing something www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chic...

Hey #booksky, if you are going to see Moana 2 this week, consider chasing it with a read of Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by @cathomps.bsky.social. It’s a fascinating history of the culture and settlement of Oceania.

Started a new book. Here’s a sample of some of the source material 😢

Started a new book. Here’s a sample of some of the source material 😢

Growing up in HI I learned about Polynesian navigation and voyaging in school and how fucking incredible it was - and when I went to the mainland this history was hardly mentioned - so cool to see light shining on this amazing part of the human story @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Loved this conversation with Christina Thompson about the mystery and miracle of Polynesian settlement. #WITHPod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Really interesting discussion - just picked up the book from the library

@janerosenzweig.bsky.social has been doing a lot of thinking about writing and AI this past year. Here she offers links to what many other people have been saying about the subject, which, for those of us who are interested (but lazy), is a gift. Happy New Year! open.substack.com/pub/writingh...

This is what you should read! www.harpercollins.com/products/sea...