Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...

In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:

Wish I could clear my schedule!!!

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Sign up for the MTC reading group for Banu Mushtaq’s 2025 International Booker Prize winning collection HEART LAMP! We’re meeting this Thursday, Sept 18! It’ll be a great time—even if you don’t do the reading :) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The never ending story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

5 tv shows from 2025-25 that Americans need to watch, but will probably never get a chance to. 5. Machine (Arte France) a rollicking 6-er, Kung-Fu fighting, Karl #Marx, & labor rights.

austerity brain: when you’ve got nothing left to cut you start trying to cut other people’s free labour

Next up in #EMMYWATCH2025 is a piece on #Andor by @taralomax.bsky.social that explores questions of genre in the series and the #StarWars franchise.

The wonderful Jolie Holland at The Cluny last night.

Joyful night at the Cluny with Nev Clay and The Burning Hell last night.

My new book - co-edited with Loïc Bourdeau - is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30 if buying on the EUP site. Please ask your libraries to order this in, we’d really appreciate it!

'FALSE WAR is a rich and capacious novel that has much to say about our contemporary moment.' Arin Keeble reviews FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, tr. Natasha Wimmer, for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

This is an absolute stunner. Out this week with @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and this Autumn in the US with @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer. My review: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who uses random " marks ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this? 2. We have a president who doesn't want us to cover, in our museums "how bad Slavery was". Was it not bad? Imagine if Reagan had said this? FFS

it's me, in one of my favourite journals! 🌱

Wrote about the most violent day in D.C.'s history, January 6, 2021, the current takeover of that city by the guy who instigated it, the right-wing snowflakes complaining they're afraid to walk down the street, and why the right fears and loathes cities (and lies about why). Bonus Epstein finale.

Devoured Jonathan Buckley’s One Boat and I think I like this one even more!

Alan Sparhawk, wow. Stunning show.

I submitted my book Domestic Denial: Terror, Race, and Home in Literature After 9/11 for peer review today! It's under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social. I'm super stoked that this whole process is chugging along!

For the first time my Y4 seminar, Fictions of Terror, doesn't include a '9/11 novel'. A long overdue change.

Israeli signatories, including the former speaker of the Knesset, are calling on immediate crippling sanctions on Israel

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

Very excited to read this one, forthcoming with @dauntbookspub.bsky.social. I loved her first three and particularly Vladivostok Circus.

Absolute treat to be in the front row for Jessica Pratt tonight - so good!!

When you take a vacation while your constituents are drowning that’s called a Ted Cruise.

Who's this in the @edfringe.bsky.social catalogue?

Once again thinking about how much easier writing would be if i had library access to more e-books and journals. Maybe instead of pumping money into AI bullshit, institutions could radically increase library budgets!

Sometimes When You Edit a Book Series You Don't Know When Books Are Starting to Emerge Into the World Until Somebody Tells You Part Two uipress.uiowa.edu/books/writin...

Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew

RIP Simon James. Generous, joyful, gentle, and sharp as a tack. He’ll be remembered as a world renown scholar and ambassador for literary studies, and I’m today remembering him rocking out to Shellac. What a loss.

What an opening paragraph! - ‘the primordial gas stations of America’. Damn.

Some @bacls.bsky.social #WHN25 Stirling conference snapshots in anticipation of the @c21literature.bsky.social roundtable: The Century at 25, which I‘m a part of with @alicebennett.bsky.social , @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social @olihaslam.bsky.social . There’s a conference deer 🦌!

The wonderful Waxahatchee at the Barrowlands on Sunday. Such a moving show!

Great to see a headline that describes this pair simply as the world’s two worst people: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🎉Happy publication day to MISINTERPRETATION by Albanian-American writer Ledia Xhoga. 🎉 🗽A story interrogating legacies of family and country, the boundary between compassion and self-preservation, and the power of language.🗨️ ‘A heart-stopping, emotional thriller. I loved it.’ Rita Bullwinkel

The perfect circle of Ernie and smooth lines of his brother Remy. ❤️

My review of Sarah Moss's new novel, Ripeness. I am a bit more critical here than the title of the review suggests: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

Cool to see this in print!

I reviewed Katie Kitamura's Audition for the FT, an engaging novel about the 'parts' people play, and how they make up the 'whole' of their lives. on.ft.com/3Ee8n8q

Katie Kitamura' writing in Audition is so far from being lifeless! Mostly bugged by this attack on 'trendy fiction courses', though.

Editing this article by Daisy Alice Powell - a definitive analysis of 'Up Lit' for @c21literature.bsky.social - was so enriching. Essential reading! c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

We have a brilliant new issue for you! Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2025) is now available: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i.... There are new articles on peripheral readings of poetry, the Scottish Network Novel, the new sub-genre of up-lit & reviews. Plus more articles coming soon! #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will result in people dying. Cutting medical research and funding will result in people dying. Cutting foreign aid, FEMA and NOAA will result in people dying. A few cars on fire is considered violence, but somehow the rest isn’t.

David Grubbs at the @starandshadow.bsky.social on Monday night - so good.

Oh hey, @keeblearin.bsky.social and I are convening a roundtable at ASAP/16 about genres and forms of Forever War! Please consider submitting an abstract and sharing!