Sylvia Townsend Warner’s ‘The Corner That Held Them’ (1948) chronicles several decades of life in the English convent of Oby during the 14th century. It’s a rich and brilliant portrayal of the lives of medieval women at the time of the Black Death. Townsend Warner was born #OTD in 1893. #BookWormSat

On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we remember the 14 young women who were murdered at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1989. We must renew our efforts to end all forms of gender-based violence.

CANNOT UNSEE

Watching the first part of Neil Jordan's film of The End of the Affair this morning and was reminded that Greene kept not only a secret diary, but TWO secret diaries. One was a bluff, so that his wife would feel she'd discovered his secret diary. The other secret diary was the real one.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

"a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection" buddy our fridges have ad screens on them

Early reports indicate that the drones “turn[ed] and turn[ed]” in what one witness described as a “widening gyre” above the vessel, before “slouch[ing] towards Bethlehem to be born”.

This is my first time encountering this delightful piece of microfiction. It's well worth a read if you have a couple of minutes (and who doesn't, really).

Good morning, friends!

December publications seem to get lost in the shuffle of end-of-semester exhaustion/holiday season chaos. Did you publish something last December? In December of 1978? Have something forthcoming this month? Use this post to share your December publications and I'll repost them!

‘The People’ and British Literature: Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy, which I co-edited with Benjamin Kohlmann, will be published on 11th December 🥳. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space

you will be visited by 12 ghosts: the ghost of christmas past, the ghost of christmas past continuous, the ghost of christmas past perfect, the ghost of christmas past perfect continuous, the ghost of christmas future simple, the ghost of christmas future continuous, the ghost of future perfect, the

I could be wrong but it sounds like Stoppard was working on Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)—an ingenious, hilarious meditation on art and the avant-garde. (Seriously, it’s very funny and unexpectedly moving—seek it out.) That it was this over “big shark scare movie” feels perfect.

Flannery O'Connor

Asking Thor if everything looks like a nail. He rolls his eyes. He's so sick of my shit

The EUP sale has our Companion to Modernism and Technology for only $22.48 (co-edited with Alex Goody). Really proud of how this one turned out. Brilliant essays and gorgeous images. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Pour one out for a legend www.bbc.com/news/article...

The EUP sale has our Companion to Modernism and Technology for only $22.48 (co-edited with Alex Goody). Really proud of how this one turned out. Brilliant essays and gorgeous images. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Looks like Edinburgh University Press is having a sale, and Writing the Radio War is only $14.98! Perfect as a stocking stuffer! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing...

“Reading Elizabeth Bishop” is £13.50 in the EUP sale… edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

I can’t believe Monday is November 1st

Macrowheat

Top of mind because I read it not that long ago: Miriam Toews’s Women Talking. Short, harrowing, and totally immersive.

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

“The seven tiers of stacks in which many of the books of the New York Public Library are shelved”: the splendid front cover of May 27th 1911’s Scientific American.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Metrograph memberships are on sale right now. One year is only $25. I don’t live in NYC, but streaming makes it easily worth it. Code: HOLIDAY25

The Devil and John Berryman, they took a walk together And they ended up on Washington, talking to the river He said, "I surrounded myself with doctors and deep thinkers But big heads and soft bodies make for lousy lovers"

they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well

The best museum that can buy money

Is this fintech

This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.

Friends, I'm trying to purchase some Arduino kits for my engineering classes. If you're able to either purchase or share, I'd be so appreciative! #clearthelist www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

Wow, he looks just like him!

Great thread on early camera movement:

At a roller derby bout and one of the refs’ roller derby name is “Rolando Furioso” and I salute this level of aggressive nerdiness

My kingdom for an Isaac Chotiner interview with Olivia Nuzzi.

Going to see Sloan tonight, as befits a man of my age and station.

Watching Barry Lyndon on my gorgeous smart fridge

ouroboreos

And all this time I thought y’all were saying CHTHONIC the Hedgehog

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

“If you don’t wanna end up in a free computer literacy class at the community center we built with funds diverted from the bloated po-lice budget, then I reckon you best be on your way.”

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.