"The late translation and publishing series Library of Arabic Literature did much to change the bleak landscape of Arabic literature in English translation" by Chip Rosetti, LAL's editorial director

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

My father, Jarvis Rockwell, passed away last month at the age of 94. I wrote an obituary about his life well lived (link below). Below, a photo of him with his toys, his artistic medium of choice in his latter years. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Outrageous really that the world’s attention has just moved on from this.

The history of the West shows that many of its greatest leaders, from the Greeks and the Romans forward, lost humiliating wars to Persia. by Niall Ferguson

The manifesto left behind by the San Diego mosque shooters dedicates only a few paragraphs to the shooter’s hatred of Islam but pages and pages to their hatred of Jews, which would seem weird if you were a newborn baby deer who knew nothing about Christian Nationalism

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

striking resemblance

Them: Nation-states are natural History: So after the Ming pirate king kicked the VoC out of Taiwan, the VoC seized a ship owned by the Siamese king crewed by Chinese seaman flying the Portuguese flag, after which Siam's Persian portmaster got the pirate king's ppl to attack the Dutch quarter

This innocuously-titled USCIS memo about how receiving residency in the US is a matter of "administrative grace" is a sadistic exercise of administrative violence designed to arbitrarily keep mixed-status families apart for what could quickly add up to *thousands of years.* Very quickly:

"...like running naked through a house on fire – and somehow not getting burnt..." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The threat of financial instability is never far from either chain or independent bookstores. In this context, cultivating the romance of the independent bookstore is not only useful but necessary. scroll.in/article/1092... Aakriti Mandhwani writes

ACLS is pleased to welcome three new members to its Board of Directors: Lizabeth A. Cohen, Sylvester A. Johnson, and Ayanna Thompson. Learn more about our new members: https://bit.ly/438z9Yx

Vishnu Mohammed! Hahahahaha

The carpet reveals additional dimensions of the exacting craft: the adaptability and creative range of the weavers, evident in the incorporation of custom design elements, some of which were not intrinsic to conventional Mughal carpets. scroll.in/article/1092... By Neha Vermani

This is such phony BS. I grew up in TX, and am the furthest thing from a vegetarian you can conjure, and when I went to college in Austin in the early ‘90s me and my buddies used to go to Tamale House nearly every weekend for hangover food and potato egg & cheese breakfast tacos were standard fare.

Ken Paxton is historically corrupt, John Cornyn is a MAGA traffic cone, and Talarico might be a SECRET VEGETARIAN WITH MID TACO ORDERS. Which one has the best case to be elected to the Senate? WHO CAN SAY?

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Try to tell my students this all the time (sigh)

"Historically, and down to the present day, visitors to his dargah have included all kinds of people — criminals, thugs, politicians, ministers, ordinary men and women, and members of transgender communities — seeking blessings and benediction."

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Myself and the wonderful @katherineschof8.bsky.social are on PBS America right now chatting about the Mughals if you’re bored. Look at this bald fella.

MORE: Adani's lawyer went to Trump's DOJ and made a proposal: If prosecutors dropped the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs.

"This is a victory for the scholars, students, colleges, universities, associations, state humanities councils, libraries, and local organizations in all fifty states and territories whose work was abruptly disrupted last year." Read ACLS President Joy Connolly's new advocacy update: bit.ly/4dGLDN6

More than 180 academic societies, universities, humanities centers, academic presses, & individuals contributed 485+ posts to our recent social media campaign highlighting the value of the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4tZoeMA Join us and #TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutSocialSciences

The fight for the New York State Caste Bill is here. After California's veto in 2023, New York could become the first state in the U.S. to legalize caste protections with its passing. Read about why this bill matters in New York. My latest in @prismreports.org 🔗 and 🧵below.

Proud of my students for their research, which for the first time located the descendants of those enslaved by Columbia University's founders. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/05...

Very proud to announce the publication of my first book, "Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism." Buy it from @ucpress.bsky.social for 30% discount (use promo code UCPSAVE30) at: www.ucpress.edu/books/feelin... And, its open access! Download for free: webfiles.ucpress.edu/oa/978052042...

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

New on advance access: "Indentured Indian workers and the politics of race, caste, and sanitation at sea and in colonial South Africa, c.1860–1911" by Pritam Singh (@lsehy.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

This is about writing & AI but could be about being a visual artist as well. "Do you actually want to learn how to write, or just pretend to do so?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Stolen, with acknowledgements, but hardly a shock bsky.app

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

Not sure why these networks invite me to do all these interviews on Trump and Iran, they should bring this guy on, he nails it in less than 45 sec :)

“What is most puzzling to me is that they champion me for my humanitarian views and now they’re canceling me for them” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The gold medal for philology is a pure creation of Mr Florent Montaclair, who awarded it to himself via the intervention of this learned society, which he himself had evidently created, and this university, which only exists on an internet site…” 😂 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Professor *briefly* lists pro-Palestine protestors amid a long list of student and faculty activities and milestones for equity and social justice. Cowardly loser uni president takes the bait and PUBLICLY APOLOGIZES. Infuriating. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

To overcome this industrial level plagiarism perhaps we need to return to an analogue world of scholarship: hard copies of articles circulated within trusted networks (maybe with an ijaza-style system for authorization)… theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

I want a movie about the poor untenured archaeologist who has to cover Indiana Jones' teaching and do his marking while he fucks off to do 'fieldwork'.

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

‘I am a woman who is daring to read the texts' Historian Romila Thapar talks about being attacked for her gender & for her interpretations of brahmanical texts, and more on the next episode #ScrollAdda with Shoaib Daniyal. Full episode drops this Friday, May 1, on our YouTube channel. Stay Tuned

For those that don’t know, “Sons of Japhet” = “Aryans”