A tiny Indian primer, or book of religious instruction written in Wampanoag and printed at Harvard College in 1669; the buckskin cover and wooden binding are original, and the now-faint strawberry design is believed to have been done by an Indigenous binder. The book has been in Scotland since 1675.

My piece out now in the new PMLA: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies

A nice little write up of my talk at Fordham last month!

A good Mi'gmaq word that I have just learned: mui'newqamigsit, or "[that person] has the temperament of a bear."

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

A reminder that we're hosting the first European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts, in Glasgow next summer (23rd-25th June 2026). The Call for Papers and Sessions can be found here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20.... Closes 12th December. Please do consider submitting!

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. Deadline: 12th January 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

A medieval staircase from Mallorca, purchased by William Randolph Hearst when the original house was torn down and planned for his house in Beverley Hills, but sold en route from a warehouse in the Bronx to European nobles in exile in New Jersey who installed it in their home until the 1950s.

It's International Inuit Day! Check out this wonderful print by the late great Inuit artist Kananginak Pootoogook called "The First Tourist."

I love Morandi’s still lifes and John Berger’s observation that “One suspects that the bottles only contain a little water for sprinkling on the floor or eau-de-cologne for cooling the forehead—certainly nothing as strong as wine.“

“The Didionesque logic of “We tell ourselves stories in order to live” becomes “We ask LLMs to tell us what we want to hear in order to live.”” Or die.

I love Morandi’s still lifes and John Berger’s observation that “One suspects that the bottles only contain a little water for sprinkling on the floor or eau-de-cologne for cooling the forehead—certainly nothing as strong as wine.“

A Wari drum from Peru, used between 500-800 CE; old instruments always fascinate me when they are played and brought to life with sound that bridges ancestral time and the present.

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

Anne Carson. I kept thinking of her line, “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”

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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Anne Carson. I kept thinking of her line, “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

A monumental mosaic by Nick Cave (the American artist) called “Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton” (2025) in the entrance to the new Princeton Art Museum.

Sometimes you’re walking in a strange park in New Jersey that already feels a bit unsettling and you come across Manet’s 1862 painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe in a wooded grove.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

George Washington at the Battle of Princeton in 1783, painted from life and given by him to the university, beside Mohawk artist Alan Michelson‘s bust “Hanödaga:yas (Town Destroyer): Reflect”; the Haudenosaunee called Washington this for his brutal destruction and looting of 60 of their villages.

Looking forward to being haunted faculty here soon!

Looking forward to being haunted faculty here soon!

The University of Glasgow looking terrifying in this spooky, moonlit postcard view of around 1904 🎃 #Glasgow #Halloween

It’s Halloween in Jersey.

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

It’s Halloween in Jersey.

It was such a pleasure to put together this essay cluster for PMLA with Donna Landry and James Mulholland and all our brilliant contributors! Here’s our introduction, I’ll link the issue in comments www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today’s Indigenous lit class: Kyle Whyte and Leslie Marmon Silko.

Another amazing piece in our PMLA essay cluster on the legacy of the 1983 conference, Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture!

My piece out now in the new PMLA: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies

Inuit carver Peter Pitseolak’s Sedna Legend (1968) in green serpentine and walrus ivory. It depicts Sedna, goddess of the sea and marine animals, on top of a tuugaalik or narwhal. When angry, Sedna tangles sea creatures in her hair and the angakkuq must travel to wash and comb it.

Inuit carver Peter Pitseolak’s Sedna Legend (1968) in green serpentine and walrus ivory. It depicts Sedna, goddess of the sea and marine animals, on top of a tuugaalik or narwhal. When angry, Sedna tangles sea creatures in her hair and the angakkuq must travel to wash and comb it.

👉NEW -- Complicity – or conspiracy? Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Martin Shaw Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction. www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-o...

From painter Benjamin West’s 1797 commission for eccentric William Beckford‘s gothic revival folly Fonthill Abbey. These apocalyptic scenes were for the planned but unrealised “Revelation Chamber”, where Beckford had wished to place his own tomb.

From painter Benjamin West’s 1797 commission for eccentric William Beckford‘s gothic revival folly Fonthill Abbey. These apocalyptic scenes were for the planned but unrealised “Revelation Chamber”, where Beckford had wished to place his own tomb.

A row of ceramic figures of Mayan ball players from around 600 to 80O CE. At the newly reopening Princeton University Art Museum.

Heartened by the return of one of the classic Trump bits, which is when he sways faintly and says "I'd like to see low IQ [person of color he saw on TV] try to pass the test that's regularly administered to me by medical professionals, the famous unbeatable Test To Determine Extent Of Brain Trauma,"

18th-century Mohegan preacher Samson Occom’s Hebrew textbook, which contains his notes and his name written in English, Hebrew, and Mohegan. It is possibly the earliest example of handwriting in Mohegan, and is now kept by the Mohegan nation.

18th-century Mohegan preacher Samson Occom’s Hebrew textbook, which contains his notes and his name written in English, Hebrew, and Mohegan. It is possibly the earliest example of handwriting in Mohegan, and is now kept by the Mohegan nation.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

I am unbelievably excited to see Anne Carson give a talk.

"We’ve never seen anything like this before.” @jacobsilverman.com on the shocking scale of Trump’s crypto corruption It’s a system where foreign actors know “it is in your direct political interest to buy Mr. Trump’s tokens or invest” in his crypto scams. gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...

A (finally) autumnal Princeton campus.