Beauty in the everyday – 'The Great Piece of Turf' (Albertina) painted in watercolour and gouache in 1503 by Albrecht Dürer, who was born on this day (21 May) in Nuremberg in 1471 🗃️

Granta AI scandal has me speechless. She had. The Kind. Of Walking. That Made. Benches Become. Men.

Staff at UTAS are on strike this afternoon, in part to gain protections against AI betterworkplaces.nteu.au/priorities/a...

By a long margin, the best wax cylinder recording is Robert Browning reciting "How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix", forgetting how it goes, and then shouting his name. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYot...

Dracula (1897)

The Rise of the Novel Dawn of the Rise of the Novel War for the Rise of the Novel Kingdom of the Rise of the Novel

Raymond Williams in 2026 would be like "this is a WHOLE structure of feeling"

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

A Bayesian analysis concludes that Lucy in Dracula likely had Type A blood. Thank you, Science! imj.ie/bayesian-ana...

Love how Darwin in the final sentence of his second last book is like "btw plants have brains". Lived for the drama.

Oh, I almost forgot about this one! New review out from yours truly of Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism for Affirmations: of the modern doi.org/10.31646/am....

Why offer a unique place-based module when you can give students … nothing 🫠

I went on This Guy Sucked to talk about a guy who sucked: Ezra Pound. 20 minute preview; full thing subscriber only; I hope you haters enjoy @ceaubin.com . @thisguysucked.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I found it: the nastiest historical slang for sexual intercourse

Greek Chorus REACTS To The Homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae

Super happy to announce that the first book in our series, Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, will be coming out this June. Check out Porscha Fermanis's _Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890_ and please ask your libraries to order?

Seeing some red flags in this Marcus Clarke portrait (1866)

Sometimes I think about the way he says “salad cream”

Song is deeply haunted

Oh captain my captain! [I put one foot on the table and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

You can just listen to sad viola da gamba music all day, no one can stop you www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmtC...

Reader’s Digest Reloaded

This still does the trick even through noise cancelling headphones in an open plan office www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlpD...

Hey! Is the dream of the 90s (sustained ambitious attention to the fin de siècle American novel) alive? Yes! In this AzQ special issue @rafaelwalker.bsky.social and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner 😎 Open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582

A few years ago I made a soundtrack for my book - interwar and wartime music about, or broadcast from, grand hotels open.spotify.com/playlist/0Ru...

Join your union, murder the robots, stay hydrated

Still reeling from the slug I just received, at the bowser

Few minutes of magic from an Iranian-Australian santur player youtu.be/AVeRilDpjjg?...

I'm too weak to sit through The Voice of Hind Rajab - I can barely see a picture of her face without breaking. The horror and depravity of this story - shattering.

Just realised that the 1930s slang "great pair of gams" is obviously related etymologically to the viola da gamba - a viol you play between your gams

The long 2000s giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Starting a hardcore band called Brent Crude

Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579

Emotional support valkyries

A guy woke up one morning as a giant bug.. but you won't hear about that in the mainstream media

In early career you have lists in your head of scholars you admire who are just a few years ahead — I remember clearly when these scholars started to disappear. These scholars aren't replaced. The knowledge disappears. The gaps widen.

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We're talking about Tagore's dankly atmospheric ghost story "The Living and the Dead" (1892) in class this week - about a widow who wakes up in funerary grounds to find herself not actually dead. I've done an am-dram reading if you're interested www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagK...

The Space Between Journal is on Bluesky! Follow us to see all the wonderful scholarship and other cool stuff we've got on 😊 bsky.app/profile/spac...

Keep hearing about the golden age of Eeling comedies, surely there can't be THAT many jokes about catching eels

Jessie Buckley was excellent in the 2018 adaptation of The Woman in White, fwiw

(•_•) <) )╯MALE / \ (•_•) \( (> PATTERN / \ (•_•) <) )╯BALDNESS

We laugh at survivalists but they’re going to last a good couple of weeks longer than we do

GREAT NEWS! I think I've found a previously unknown supernatural story by May Sinclair! BAD NEWS! I can't find a copy of the magazine that it's in!