Andreas Beyer’s Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist: This biography situates Cellini more appropriately in the transition that lies between the Renaissance and the modern era. 📌 buff.ly/JchDFra 📚 buff.ly/2GcREsq

Listen now: Murder in the Cathedral 🔈 lnns.co/ng4SJdtsa69 📚 buff.ly/3B3iYcN

Listen now: Gerri Kimber talks about Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf 🔈 buff.ly/2nUfSL1 📚 buff.ly/x4ePPuK

Listen now: Carol Atack is on the New Books Network talking about Plato 🔈 buff.ly/2hiGWMf 📚 buff.ly/e5EpaKB

and if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)! reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that of the English church. Sam Gee reviews The English Soul: www.christiancentury.org/books/what-e... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Check out Sharon Kingsland's review of Elizabeth Lawson's "Moss and Lichen," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #planthist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Memoirs from the dance floor — the nocturnal universes of New York, London and Berlin 📌 buff.ly/A6gtTFm [£] 📚 buff.ly/MXdyYgV

I just received the first copies of my book and I have to say it’s looking gorgeous! 😍 Thank you @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making such a beautiful book #earlymodern

Unraveling Ravel 📌 buff.ly/9XF13ef 📚 buff.ly/wSus8ZU

NEXT FRIDAY! Get your tickets to see Liz Williams as she discusses all things British folk customs

Slaughter for Hire: From Africa to Ukraine, the rise and fall of the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was marked by theatrical violence, the seizure of resources, and an utter lack of accountability. 📌 buff.ly/viXtRha [£] 📚 buff.ly/6LcA1Ba

At the Chinese Table: To understand the Chinese through their culinary history is to see them in their best lights—as inventive, adaptable, egalitarian, and open-minded. 📌 buff.ly/vWBKGsO 📚 buff.ly/dtD91bC

Last year I delivered a lecture for the IndieRE 2.0 conference in Ljubljana. From around the 2hr45m mark here, if you're interested, I reflect on writing Electric Wizards & touch on other issues e.g. the lack of criticism in music criticism. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi9q...

Caught in the vortex 📌 buff.ly/JhSux1H 📚 buff.ly/a6GC7xo

Good to catch up with lots of medievalists at Lindy Grant's book launch for Eleanor of Aquitaine in @reaktionbooks.bsky.social medieval lives series.

Marvin Trachtenberg, Brunelleschi and the Moment of the Renaissance (@reaktionbooks.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/brunell... / press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Broken Compass: 22 Books to Look Out for in September 📌 buff.ly/mTD6z92 📚 buff.ly/BRoSPJ5

Our Week in Reviews: 9/27/25. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @grandcentralpub.bsky.social @orbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #booksky

An extensive account of an otherworldly ocean. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @karlbell.bsky.social #booksky

Listen now: Your best shot — A coffee sceptic's quest for perfection 🔈 buff.ly/bl6ser1 📚 buff.ly/umSOzlV

Entering perhaps the best season in which to read Karl Bell's superbly entertaining 'The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic' (which I had the pleasure of editing for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.) Karl previously won the Katharine Briggs Award.

'Cooke answers questions you didn’t know you had, like “When were hotdogs served to royalty?” (You’ll need to buy the book for that one.)' 📌 buff.ly/R9uHHiR 📚 buff.ly/byw70AY

What We Eat: According to a delicious art form 📌 buff.ly/tbNgRvO 📚 buff.ly/byw70AY

'Her book is a meandering amble up and down the centuries, letting her inquisitive mind and sharp ear take her and her reader to many an odd little corner.' 📌 buff.ly/3iF5rqC 📚 buff.ly/zsM8Hef

Drake goes to Berghain, listens to ‘industrial techno for three hours’ 📌 buff.ly/ckEFv9a 📚 buff.ly/vPZLB9r

'Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age is an interesting and educational glimpse into a typically overlooked group.' 📌 buff.ly/gQXFJj2 📚 buff.ly/m1rATQt

Triptych: Libraries and Loneliness 📌 buff.ly/6wR4Shi 📚 buff.ly/9TNTAVR

Read now: Library Journal reviews Maurice Ravel by Emily Kilpatrick 📌 buff.ly/ihlZlab 📚 buff.ly/6q3dtXE

‘This is a portrait of a man who remained aloof and apart from a musical establishment that treated him warily almost from the beginning’ 📌 buff.ly/uWFA4rc 📚 buff.ly/6q3dtXE

'We have to let him know we're here': on writing a life for Maurice Ravel 📌 buff.ly/JMiblgI 📚 buff.ly/6q3dtXE

My little Plato: a civic life, as reviewed in the New York Sun earlier this year - paywall but you can read one article for free.

Plato, the Philosopher Poised Between Oligarchy and Philosophy 📌 buff.ly/PSJcnsR [£] 📚 buff.ly/UnQMhFK

We are in proofs! The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments book coming in 2026 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

'What a fascinating book, illustrated with some wonderful images, some of them quite unexpected!' 📌 buff.ly/8aDUwqf 📚 buff.ly/PLscD2p

Congratulations are in order for Reaktion Books author Martin Carthy, who has been nominated for a Mercury Prize 📌 buff.ly/X1lEy7g

Katrina's new book - Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England - is published later this year by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social! reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

We're offering 2-for-1 tickets on our upcoming event with the brilliant Liz Williams! Liz will be in conversation with @drclaireocall.bsky.social to discuss all things folk Britain. Use code 2FOR1TOWN at checkout (link to tickets below) @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @thegraystonunity.bsky.social

'Beyer makes Cellini’s colorful accounts enjoyable for readers. His analytical assessment is a substantial contribution to understanding the lives and surviving writings of historical artists' 📌 buff.ly/1dNAlSS 📚 buff.ly/KRcHMrB

Read the New Criterion's take on 'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe'! 📌 buff.ly/u1VEhU5 📚 buff.ly/9kXekqm

Get your tickets! Join Alec Ryrie at Waterstones Hampstead for a chat about his new book, The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It 🎟️ Tuesday 14th October 2025 6.30pm

It’s nice when other journalists mention a book you’ve written. Here’s Electric Wizards popping up in an article about the mighty PART CHIMP on the excellent Echoes And Dust site. Thanks @jonezyboy.bsky.social 🙉 echoesanddust.com/2025/09/part... @echoesanddust.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Listen now: author Lindy Grant talks about the great Eleanor of Aquitaine with Gone Medieval! 🔈 buff.ly/UcUjoj7 📚 buff.ly/j7CYnSh

Here's some more of the 56 illustrations from @saracharles.bsky.social wonderful book, The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages! So readable yet Sara is no doubt an expert in her field on medieval manuscripts! Publisher: @reaktionbooks.bsky.social cc/ @mccrimmons.bsky.social

I ADORE @saracharles.bsky.social The Medieval Scriptorium! 7 richly illustrated chapters open with Sara’s own beautiful vignettes. Journey through beginnings, parchment ins/outs, inks, illumination, painting, & decline! Irish focus in chapter 2! My buddy train read! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Spike Bucklow about his new @reaktionbooks.bsky.social release, The Year: An #Ecology of the #Zodiac. It defies genre, maybe even summation. Loved it. #BookSky📚💙 #anthropology #folklore #astrology #Skystorians newbooksnetwork.com/year

Next @constancebantman.bsky.social reviews Andrew Whitehead's 'A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street' @reaktionbooks.bsky.social (6/8)

New Medieval Books: Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books, published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/09/new-... #historybooks #Gutenberg

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present is four years old! 🎂 “a mind-riot,” according to the late, great Neil Kulkarni. Still in print! 📖 #booksky @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/electri...

Interviewed for this piece that has shout out for my recent book published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on #insurrection Pardoned insurrectionists are using Charlie Kirk’s death to call for civil war www.motherjones.com/politics/202...