A year ago: a series of essays in honor of Fred Jameson turning 90. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...

Cover art is in! Wastelands and Wonderlands coming in April. Massive thanks to the creative team at SUNY for another brilliant cover! This has some amazing contribs and I can't wait for you to read their work!

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Worker's Planet this wkend in Brighton has an amazing line-up. If you're coming, I'll be talking on this session - come say hi! Pay Up: Who should pay for the crisis and how can we make them? ⏰ Time: 5pm - 6:30pm 🎟️ Get your ticket workersplanet.org/2mworkers_pl...

40% off Verso's Critical Theory back to school list! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3...

🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices! This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time. How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?

I have a book cover!

Clear and incisive, though I wish it didn't need to be said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.

K Pop Demon Hunters has a killer soundtrack for running(and I assume high intensity workouts). My actual knowledge of the film is limited, as it's mostly just by osmosis from my kid watching it. But it seems fun and funny!

Very excited for this-i hope games journalists, as well as game studies and indigenous studies folks, read it! #gamestudies

"The disciplining of Ben Robinson is a violation of his academic freedom that sends a chilling message to all faculty members." jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/i...

Scholar and author @aarontram.bsky.social spoke to us about play's blurry other side -- where it isn't always fun or consensual -- and what we risk by ignoring it.

AI is theft. AI is environmental destruction. AI is anti-labor. AI concentrates power in tech capital. AI atrophies intellectual capacities. Here's something useful for struggling against its effects in education, courtesy of Anna Kornbluh, Eric Hayot, and Krista Muratore. against-a-i.com

This is good @dicebreaker.com.web.brid.gy www.dicebreaker.com/categories/r... (via @fionawh.im )

It would only be possible to describe @bradleyfest.bsky.social's Postrock as "epic," both in its scope but also our modern sense of GREAT. I've gotten to spend some good time with the poem/ms this summer and am very excited to see the poem out in the world! www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

Wrote up my experience at @gamestransformed.bsky.social 2025 - good theory, good praxis, good fun too! www.goonhammer.com/games-transf...

The #HugoAward for Best Related Work goes to Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press). “Insist that tomorrow belongs to everyone.”

Congratulations to the fabulous (and MULTI award-winning) @premeemohamed.com: THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS has won the Aurora Award for Best Novel! (And well done to Premee again, for winning Best Novella whilst wearing a different publishing hat!) geni.us/siegeburning...

Don't forget Tamsin, my favorite (so far) Beagle book. Strongly recommended for fans of 17th century Britain, ghost stories, and strongly subtextual gay teen romance, including our beloved #Katyana. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311946...

Here's how to get a 20% discount our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf who Fought Slavery*, co-written with Michelle Markel and illustrated by Sarah Bachman, to be published Oct. 14, 2025 by @pmpress.bsky.social. Use BEN! at checkout. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

I promised you all further reflections on doing genre history. You can’t say I didn’t! So, here it is. On Roberts and Pheby, and on fantasy and knowledge. The latest Snap! Criticism at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org.

*first day of class “Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*” *Milton’s Paradise Lost

They're making a Rambo origins movie... but with a twist. Every moviegoer gets a toggle switch and if you flip it, the movie is suddenly about transgressive French poet Arthur Rimbeau.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Final day of 20% off. Please consider sharing for my stupid bill’s sake. allgrimprints.shop

“The peculiar difficulty of dialectical writing lies indeed in its holistic, ‘totalizing’ character: as though you could not say any one thing until you had first said everything.” Michael Principe memorializes Jameson againstthecurrent.org/atc236/fredr...

So delighted to share that BETWEEN WORLDS: THE IF ANTHOLOGY OF NEW INDIAN SFF, is now available for pre-order - and will be in bookshops on 18 August! Pre-order here, or from your local bookshop: www.amazon.in/Between-Worl...

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

What includes multiple award-winners, Narnia gone wrong, the extremes of human existence & a forthcoming film-adaptation from Michael Bay? A stack of @aptshadow.bsky.social 's TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas of course! Preorder the latest, THE HUNGRY GODS, out this month: geni.us/HungryGods

My book 'The Personal Life of Debt' is out now. You can read the free e-book here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland gets a 21st century reassessment: “…the plot is set in motion by Reagan’s slashing of the federal government, unwittingly severing millions of connections, setting in motion events beyond anyone’s control, resurrecting the suppressed.”

We’re proud to publish the inaugural issue of Theory & Social Inquiry— now fully scholar-led, #DiamondOA, and free from commercial control. Read the introduction by editors Greta R. Krippner and Monica Prasad to learn why this matters: doi.org/10.16995/tsi...

As a dedicated reader and former student of Jameson's, I revel in the work that @mattseybold.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, @smithcal.bsky.social, et al. do here. An "add another mile to the morning walk to finish this one out" episodes. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

I talked to @benjaminpercy.bsky.social about writing across mediums, working with the legendary @stephenking.bsky.social, and serializing the forthcoming novel-as-newspaper THE END TIMES countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

Thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social for asking me to write about how a poem begins (spoiler alert: I don’t really know). (and thanks to @sarahwolfson.bsky.social for her incisive suggestions — read her amazing @periodicities.bsky.social piece from yesterday!)

Considering starting many an email reply this year with this line from Pynchon's INHERENT VICE: "I am many things—but one thing I am not is stupid, and purely out of noblesse oblige I now extend this assumption to cover you as well..." Seems like it could fit a variety of situations!

Humanities Graduates Can Find a Great Job. It’s Time to Make This Fact Known. www.mellon.org/voices/human...

August brings new histories of nuclear annihilation, robotic kitchens, strange deaths, and more to your to be read list.

Not-So-Lone Arrangers: @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social reviews Mia Tsai’s THE MEMORY HUNTERS, out now from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/01/n...

“Columbia's capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry+learning into a shadow of its former self AN ANTI UNIVERSITY a place of fear+loathing, where faculty+students are told from on high what they can say+teach, under severe penalty” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Holy fuck. Tumblr pointed me to this Murderbot fic. It's about multiple SecUnits trying to keep their humans safe. YOU READ IT BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER. IT'S A GAME OF MINESWEEPER THAT'S A MURDERBOT FIC. archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess! HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be 780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions. #VideoGames #MediaStudies @cmejeur.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social

"resolve dispute" is a bizarre way to describe extortion.

New book on my fiction coming out.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

NOAA is working on a project that maps and assesses the risk of living near rivers—but it’s uncertain whether FEMA will be around to deploy the maps, as President Trump previously said he would like to close the agency after this year’s hurricane season.