A thank you to librarians. www.nypl.org/blog/2025/08...

“Reading is good when it disturbs you.” frontline.thehindu.com/columns/amit...

From @brickliterary.bsky.social brickmag.com/postcards-fr... #WorldEnvironmentDay

On #worldenvironmentday, I’m sharing my @GrantaMag piece on the sinking Himalayan town granta.com/sinking-town/

Why am I still teaching journalism? amitavakumar.substack.com/p/why-am-i-s...

Three upcoming readings amitavakumar.substack.com/p/three-acts

#FreeGulfisha amitavakumar.substack.com/p/the-jewel-...

A new Lydia Millet story about a therapist questioning her line of work in an era of climate disaster, recommended by @amitava.bsky.social

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories – Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. -Muriel Rukeyser #everynightapoem [Carel Willink, Bad Tidings, 1932]

Fantastic New Yorker essay by author and artist @amitava.bsky.social, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair. bit.ly/4iyUUq8

Paperback Row in the New York Times Book Review

Tomorrow at the Brooklyn Public Library www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/ami...

During a visit to a school in Delhi I asked “what was your happiest day?” amitavakumar.substack.com/p/what-was-y...

My novel's paperback launch in Brooklyn with Katie Kitamura on Feb 5!

Let’s rage and rant amitavakumar.substack.com/p/i-is-for-i...

Update on the book tour amitavakumar.substack.com/p/bombay-dre...

LitHub names this among their favorite essays of 2024

The New Yorker magazine recommends My Beloved Life among the books published in 2024:

I had read a dying journalist’s tweet during the pandemic. Later, I put it in a novel I was writing. scroll.in/article/1076...

Delhi peeps, take note!

Am reading Patricia Highsmith’s diaries

And tonight in Rhinebeck I watched this one! Much recommended!

Perhaps I am the last remaining fan of Hindi films to have watched this one. What fun it was last night! #laapataaladies

HarperCollins India announces the release on Dec 5, 2024 of the final volume in my trilogy of drawing books-plus-diaries. harpercollins.co.in/blog/announc...

In praise of the new documentary by Anand Patwardhan “The World is Family” amitavakumar.substack.com/p/the-world-...

The visual turn. Coming up in my “Writing about the Anthropocene” class is art by folks I like, including John Berger and Leanne Shapton.

In my "Writing for the Anthropocene" class this morning, we discussed the collection Not Too Late, ed. by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua. Here's a quote from the book that seems right for Bluesky:

Made a lunch-hour painting. Fall day.

Testing, testing! amitavakumar.substack.com/p/poetry-aft...