So excited to be in conversation Anand Pandian and Ashanté Reese! We had so much fun talking about Something Between Us that we decided to do it again. Thanks to SAR for hosting us. You can register here: sarweb.org/date/beautif... @anandian.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Stay in and read "Love Saves the Day" by Tim Lawrence and "Raving" by @mckenziewark.bsky.social

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

but not a rebuilding organized by coherence, sameness, the colonial devouring of difference but rather an anticolonial poetics and poethics…that dwells with rupture.

After I read/sat with/listened/abided the silences of “unrest,” I wrote: The book asks after rebuilding a relation with earth that might happen by way of a rebuilding a relation with word…

Recently, I was honored to receive an advanced copy of gitan djeli’s ’unrest in the nebulae’ (forthcoming, Duke University Press, ‘Writing Matters!’ book series, March 2026) @dukepress.bsky.social

🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇 1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression. 3) Organize your department. We are stronger together! aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. (Published Dec. 2025)

This should exist in every city in the country.

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

We have a great slate of #NewBooks coming out this month, including "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," by Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. See them all on our blog: buff.ly/alCform

We have some great books coming out this month, including "P FKN R," by Bad Bunny Syllabus creators Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau. See all of January's #NewBooks on our blog! buff.ly/alCform

There is nobody who can accurately describe how an LLM works who can explain how that model will lead to AGI.

Start the new year off with some author events! buff.ly/KKvMEsd

New Year, New Books! Check out the terrific new titles we have coming out in January. buff.ly/alCform

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

Watch Lucy Dacus perform the women's suffrage and workers' rights anthem "Bread And Roses" at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's NYC mayoral inauguration

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time. Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.

We're bringing back the great union songs in 2026, and we're doing it very strongly www.instagram.com/reels/DS-uIn...

Happy Emancipation Day and Happy Happy Haitian Independdence Day!

On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹

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Years and years ago at an AHA, a reporter at the Chronicle asked me what I'd like to see from them in the coming year and I said "Try to go a week without quoting a professor from an Ivy league school." I am re-upping that request but I'd like to broaden the publications it applies to.

Funny how what he values is ethnographic access and trust, based on human interaction. Maybe there is something to that!

Isiah Whitlock Jr, best known for his role as Clay Davis on “The Wire,” has died. He was 71

Authors @naylandblake.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, and @margaretprice.bsky.social all have events in January. Perhaps you can make it to one! buff.ly/KKvMEsd

They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.

I’m a monthly donor. Please join me. They are volunteers. They do necessary work. We can get there. They need our help.

As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History hopes to provide an intellectual scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas. Issue 22:4 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/ZW0Ee2A @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

The Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:2-3). Read it for free: buff.ly/hj5wL6r

Help us clear the shelves before we have to inventory all these books! 20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)

Book Advent #25: "Police and the Empire City" by @mguariglia.bsky.social traces the development of the NYPD from its origins through the early 20th century. I appreciated learning more about both imperial feedback and Taylorism in the development of policing practices.

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

This photograph is giving Carl Van Vechten. It's giving Miro. It's giving Man Ray and Ruth Bernard. It's saying I am all of art history and you are a med spa pamphlet.

At the forefront of cultural theory, Social Text seeks provocative interviews and challenging articles from emerging critical voices. Issue 165 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/jGNvkAm

Congrats to our authors whose books made gift guides and "Best of" lists this year! See them all, including @emmaamador.bsky.social, @vivvychoi.bsky.social, @wolffdr.bsky.social, @arsavium.bsky.social, @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, @gentlemanjane.bsky.social, & @pepepierce.bsky.social: buff.ly/f3UF0sL

If you aren't familiar with their podcasts and more, check them out! explore.afikra.com/podcast-netw.... @kwissoker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Sam Levine is a truly talented public servant—the real deal. Another great appointment and a win for affordability.

This is a cleaner copy than some of the others being shared.

GLOBAL TV FOR THE WIN, dropbox link in thread

In "Breaking the World," Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Janelle Monáe to show how their practices of speculation are tools to break apart the antiblack world of the security state. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wsdmSyo

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Sending congratulations to all the DUP authors who have won awards and honors for their books this fall! See them all on our blog: buff.ly/2JZRktP

Thank you Cornell Chronicle for this interview on my book "Architecture and the Right to Heal" (Duke UP) @kwissoker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @cornellaap.bsky.social news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

The Weekly Read is "Carved Doors as Afro-Arab-Asian Creative Congruence" by Janet Marion Purdy. The article was published in "Crossing the Indian Ocean," a special issue of Monsoon. Read it for free through 3/10/26: buff.ly/N2f8N4T