💥 NEW SERIES LAUNCH DAY 💥 🌏The Five Partitions That Reshaped Modern Asia🌏 Episode 1... INDIA'S FIRST PARTITION: BURMA'S BREXIT @anitaanand.bsky.social and I are joined by young Sam Dalrymple to discuss Burma's dramatic separation from India in 1937.

Hugely excited to share that on 4 August, BBC R4 A GOOD READ will be discussing our beloved THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY by Vivian Gornick (intro by @amykey.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

An interview with Irfan Habib, one of India’s most distinguished historians, on secularism, socialism and much else podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Raven reviews - Stella Blómkvist- Murder Tide- tr. Quentin Bates "I was almost giving myself whiplash turning the pages so fast." @StellaBlomkv @graskeggur.bsky.social #BlogTour ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/b... #BookSky 💙📚

The best short piece I've read on Trump's new Predator America- Brilliant and crucially important @FT editorial America has turned on its friends - on.ft.com/3ERSO6o via @FT

I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

Amrita Sher-Gil, Little Girl in Blue, 1934 Indian-Hungarian modernist painter

Warm and informed review of The Golden Road in the TLS @thetls.bsky.social from one of the historians of early India I most admire- Daud Ali. Some interesting criticisms too. www.the-tls.co.uk/history/anci...

New Critical Reading Class just up - May to Nov 2025 - and oh my goodness, just look at those writers: Percival Everett! Malcolm Lowry! Carson McCullers! More! Full details here (and a discount of 15% until 19 Dec; promotional code = CLASSEARLYBIRDS): www.galleybeggar.co.uk/school-criti...

My Books of the Year @guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Today’s poem is called ‘An Update to My Privacy Policy’.

Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent

Updated this starter pack again but still on the lookout for: - Contributors to our magazine now on Bluesky - People whose books have been reviewed in our magazine - People who have been featured as interviews and profiles in our magazine go.bsky.app/QBWk1Vm

As we settle in here for the long haul, it feels right to repost the greatest typo that we ever encountered... (Not saying which book; that feels mean.)