If you’d like to learn more about Mary Bishop & her extraordinary work, I wrote this for The Wellcome Collection in 2023. But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...

I'm not going to lie: this is a reassuring post to read. Thanks Caroline, thanks @smallpublishers.bsky.social, thanks @cbeditions.bsky.social 🙏🏼 😘😉

Man, this shit is out of hand and someone need tell us why in the fuck we are blowing up fucking boats? This ain't the shit we are fucking supposed to be doing. Someone please explain why in the entire fuck we are just blowing up fucking people? It needs to happen now www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Love this cover. Sol Plaatje. An astonishing man.

Goldsmiths time of year! Many congratulations @cdrose.bsky.social ! Enjoy!

Mamdani is the best news! In my little world, meanwhile, @cbeditions.bsky.social Spent Light is going to be published in the US with @mcnallyeditions.com & in Spain with Temporal Casa! Thank you to agents Lisa & Anna!

Bradley Wiggins wrote a book in four months. I mean, fair enough if I can't keep up with him cycling round the block, but FOUR MONTHS to write a book! Stop it!

The man responsible for so many, many deaths is finally dead. #Cheney

Baba Chokwe Lumumba used to say, "If you don't love the people sooner or later you'll betray the people." Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Postcoloniality is a bitch

Congratulations New York. Feeling relieved for friends there, and hopeful for the rest of us. Go, Mamdani! 👇🏼

Got everything crossed 🤞🏼 for Mamdani. His win will galvanise @zackpolanski.bsky.social and all of us behind him.

We remember Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a beloved activist rabbi who was a leading voice connecting Jewish spirituality to justice-oriented politics. He passed away last week at the age of 92.

Finally watched this. I've read Philip Clark's criticism here @artreview.bsky.social and couldn't disagree more. I thought it fascinating, deeply upsetting & very important viewing. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat by Johan Grimonprez. Watch it.

One of the aspects I like most about this prize is the solidarity between the writers. I felt the guys on stage, last night, were generous & thoughtful & responsive to one another. Definitely a northern feel to the Goldie this year! Good luck, all. X

Judith Butler cited on BBC R4 Today Thought for the Day. Crikey. There is hope.

Frieze Masters 7/10 Frieze London 3/10 Glad I didn't have to pay for my ticket

Il y a soixante-quatre ans, le 17 octobre 1961, la police française massacrait des Algérien·nes qui manifestaient pacifiquement pour leur dignité.

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

"If Israel allows us to live, death will pour meaning into life." This is writing 👇🏼

Bit of my heart has broken. D'Angelo. RIP. Sad sad news. Fucking wonderful music he made.

‘Some librarians were fired; some received death threats. At one point in the film, a grandfather turns up at a school meeting with a gun to tell the library supporters: “We know what you do. We know where you live.”’ Anna Aslanyan on book bans and censorship: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social has used strict word constraints to write enchanting books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Let Me Tell You also became this astonishingly beautiful & strange work of music created by Hans Abrahamsen. Be mesmerised.

Seriously saluting the Jane Fonda work-out: "This is the most frightening moment of my life... The only thing that has ever worked – time and time again – is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

CELEBRATING LK In this translation you will look in vain for a full-stop, Stops are there, but hard to find. Keep searching. Oh look, there is one! He must have taken breath. Time can stand still for the blink of a whale's eye. Then the whale goes down, spouting as it dives.

I just hope he shares the cash with his translators.

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp." Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

So frustrated to have missed this. Really very very special.

This little yellow glossy book just keeps running. How grateful I am to have this reader, himself a pretty glorious writer. 🙏🏼👇🏼😘

Beginning to feel that the more Labour chases the far right, the better it is for the left. They're leaving a chasm for @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk to fill, plus indy candidates like @faizashaheen.bsky.social. Great! Let's do it!

Off to Hastings in December to inspire & support other writers. Promise to smile & laugh more than the photo suggests! Please spread the word, literally & metaphorically! @hastingswrites.bsky.social

"How is it that the country committing genocide is granted any say in the future of the people against whom it has committed genocide?"

Goodness, this is writing.

👇🏼That Goldsmiths time of year. Best thing about being on the 2024 shortlist was the friends I made, all of them fucking great writers. Hope this year's crew enjoy that as much as we did!

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Where was everyone! I went to see Gaza films tonight, From Ground Zero, and I'm left stunned by their beauty and even humour. Go, see these films! Pack your local cinema! This is urgent, incredible work.

Oh, Claudia Cardinale ! #RIP Once Upon a Time in the West, forever one of my all-time faves.

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It's a shitshow out there in the world, but cracks of light include my encounter with the writing of @jcbuckley.bsky.social and I'm pretty heartbroken & also amazed he didn't make the @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. One Boat @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is superb.

This photo is everything!! (Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)

At last. Alaa Abdel Fatah. How his family must feel!

Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy. To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024, we published a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre

Post by Etan Nechin on X: Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, who last week called for an end to the war during a London concert, was arrested at a demonstration on the Gaza border against the war. “Stop the genocide. It’s ruining everything. Stop it now.”