Shoutout to everyone who published a novel about a global pandemic in 2019. In about 10 years, we’ll probably be far enough out from our trauma to be able to read it.

Choices. I think I‘m gonna read from left to right.

Kathryn Cowles’ THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR is truly one of the most beautiful literary forms I’ve read this year. Its subtitle is “A Catalog.” @fencebooks.bsky.social

Don't miss today's episode with Báyò Akómoláfé, and our deep dive into philosophy and language, words and worlds, both. Audio📻🔥: milkweed.org/between-the-... @ayinpress.bsky.social

"So grief is a particular kind of unrequited love." I cannot wait to read Siri Hustvedt's Ghost Stories. I was pushed into the operation theatre for cancer treatment when Paul Auster's passing was announced. Haven't stopped writing since. Sometimes, you don't have to meet your teachers in person.

Merz is giving Starmer stiff competition for Best in Show as Donald Trump’s poodle.

If it’s not raining for once, February in the UK is like this

Showed Klee’s Angelus Novus to my sister while rambling on Walter Benjamin and she, biologist, just said: Cool, the angel looks kinda cute, like a human alpaca. Cannot unsee this.

Die Bundesregierung hat heute eine Aufrüstung gegen Linksextremismus verkündet. Am 27. Januar. Am Holocaust-Gedenktag. Die Vertreter*innen der selbsternannten bürgerlichen Mitte sind so dermassen lost. Die sehen nicht mal, was die Stunde geschlagen hat, wenn die AfD gleich auf mit ihnen liegt.

Listen to my friend @sujatroghosh.bsky.social and learn. And maybe, just maybe, it will be an experience of both increased awareness and solace for you, too. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Save the date! Canisia Lubrin will be chatting about her new book THE WORLD AFTER RAIN with Between the Covers host @davidnaimon.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social on 2/3 at 7pm. More details here: buff.ly/C2LHnsL

We cannot cross until we carry each other.

Aus Fehlern lernen... 😬 Wiener Kunstakademie bietet Donald Trump Studienplatz an

She has squirrel survival skills and I adore her for it.

Amen!

Oury Jalloh Das war Mord. Möge er in Frieden ruhen #OuryJallohDasWarMord

Aktuell findet eine große & umfassende bundesweite Umfrage zu Diskriminierung in Deutschland statt. Es geht um Alter, Behinderung, Geschlecht, Herkunft, Religion usw. Und je mehr mitmachen, umso klarer wird das Bild. Nehmt teil & sagts weiter! @beauftragte.bsky.social www.diskriminierung-umfrage.de

🦩 #pareidoodle #pareidolia

#Stipendium Im Rahmen von Erasmus+ bietet sich die Gelegenheit für Studierende der Tübinger Germanistik, an einem der größten germanistischen Institut Afrikas mit langer Forschungstradition zu studieren: an der Université de Lomé in Togo!👇1/3

#Diop erzählt welche Vorteile es geben könnte, das Thema #Kolonialismus in die #Gedenkstättenkonzeption aufzunehmen ⬇️

I interviewed @natashaakelly and @kirstingwyer.bsky.social for The Oxford Polyglot, discussing Black German literature and thought and ways of writing and reading… www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-polyg...

Granta contributors and friends reflect on their year in reading. granta.com/a-year-in-re...

Good morning, please can you share this petition by @peatfree.bsky.social to end peat sales - all previous petitions were for the Conservative Government, and we're now close to making this law with Labour so peat habitat can never be used again actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Berlin entwickelt Erinnerungskonzept zur Kolonialzeit. Berlin will seine koloniale Vergangenheit sichtbar machen. Mit einem neuen Erinnerungskonzept sollen Denkmäler, Umbenennungen und ein Lern- und Erinnerungsort entstehen. @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social www.radioeins.de/programm/sen...

This is amazing. What a teacher!

Wiederfinden kann Della seine Perspektive im Projekt heimaten, das von Ibou Diop und Max Czollek im HKW entwickelt wurde. Es widmet sich einer Neudeutung des Heimatbegriffs im Sinne einer pluralen Gesellschaft und macht die Arbeit zahlreicher Initiativen sichtbar. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1195...

Heute Abend 19 uhr lese ich mit Hadija in der Stadtbibliothek Treptow-Köpenick. Letzte Berliner Lesung 2025! www.berlin.de/stadtbibliot...

When my friends wanted to be Hermione Granger, my 10-year-old self wanted to be like Iris Berben. Unattainable but still inspiring.

This time of year, when the light grows soft and the streets lie crispy. 🍁

This is the book that has its own spot in my luggage. I finished reading it a while back. I am not ready to let go of it yet, so it lives near me.

On Tues, Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah attempted to fly to London to attend two conferences. He was stopped by authorities and told he could not travel. It's been almost 2 months since Alaa was pardoned. It's time for him to be allowed to travel too www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Sei nicht stolz auf deine KI-Sachen.

Listening to Julius Asal’s Siena Tapes while people watching makes me like this world a little better

The catastrophic state of modern languages in this country! When I was doing my PhD in the 1980s, Nottingham was a real powerhouse for #German studies.

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Took my PhD worries on a hike and they couldn‘t keep up.

Eine ärgerliche Zeit, um ein Gehirn zu haben

Between conferences 🫶🏼

Sehnsucht nach Unterholz, Borke, Wabe, Nest.

Catch Chet'la Sebree on tour for her poetry collection Blue Opening (9.16.25).💙✨ “These poems wrestle w/ the cosmic without losing sight of the personal….Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy.” —Publishers Weekly Read more: www.chetlasebree.com/her-appearan...

Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... #freepalestine

Lieb ich 🫶🏼

Honoured to have presented my work on critical whiteness as part of the Black Literature and Culture in German panel, thoughtfully curated by @kirstingwyer.bsky.social, at this year’s @ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.