Steven Heller, Mussolini’s Failed Purple Prose (PRINT Magazine; #bookhistory, #skystorians): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

Essential reading for educators as well as historians of reading (PDF): Effective Reading Instruction in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, World Bank, and @unicef.org) documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

Jacques Roubaud, des chiffres et des vers (@franceculture.fr) : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Who doesn't adore Wikipedia? As regards powerful figures, sometimes documentation alone is wonderful. Cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Ferry

Gottfried Benn und Nele Benn, Briefwechsel 1930–1956 (Holger Hof und Stephan Kraft, Hrsg. @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535952...

This looks lovely: Friedrich Hölderlin and André Butzer, Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (Taschen, 2025): www.taschen.com/en/books/art...

Georges Perec et Eugen Helmlé, La Machine (Valentin Decoppet et Camille Bloomfield, trans. @editionsduseuil.bsky.social, 2025) www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-m...

Zack Hatfield, Is Photography Yorgos Lanthimos’s True Calling? (Aperture; #photography): aperture.org/editorial/is...

Taking the weekend off from social media, partly to spend a bit more time working through Laura Marling's catalogue (which I'm nearly embarrassed to discover so belated, she's a genius): youtu.be/dD7EHzrfrl0?...

Vu à la librairie Tschann (pour @anthonyglinoer.bsky.social ainsi que @stuartelden.bsky.social) ....

Albert Mobilio on "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" (until 1 Feb. 2026) at the @metmuseum.org (4Columns): 4columns.org/mobilio-albe...

Steven Heller, Roy Kuhlman’s Narrative Abstraction (PRINT Magazine, @fantagraphics.bsky.social; #bookhistory): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

En gros, Sarkozy a été condamné à vivre comme un étudiant à l'université .... www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers...

Really wonderful work in general (however bleak) that's worth following, #skystorians!

Gift link: Ivan Nechepurenko with visuals by Nanna Heitmann, "Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books" (New York Times; #bookhistory) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Lucas Thompson, Hooked on Sonics (@publicdomainrev.bsky.social; #skystorians): publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...

Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe/

This is personal now (h/t @infinite-milos.bsky.social):

Love & War: Lynsey Addario on the five stories that defined her career (@theguardian.com; #skystorians) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...

Good look for the NYT:

A cool thing about american politics is that if you describe in a matter of fact way what people believe the people with the most power in the media industry think that’s rude

Nicolas Heimendinger, L’État contre la norme : Institutions publiques et art d’avant-garde (@cnrseditions.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) : www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/sc...

This guy (who not incidentally looks like a thumb)! Just "asking questions"! Because "Interesting Times" with the NYT imprimatur!

PDF - Kai Sina (@ksina.bsky.social), Der kurze Weg nach Westen: Biermanns Seitensprüng (@ideengeschichte.bsky.social, Heft XIX/4 Winter 2025; #skystorians): www.wiko-berlin.de/fileadmin/Da...

Laurent Willemez (@lwillemez.bsky.social), Sociologie de la justice (@edladecouverte.bsky.social, 2025): www.editionsladecouverte.fr/sociologie_d...

Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...

Today I made a discovery in the <checks notes> . . . helmet.

Gibt es historische Wahrheit? Diese Frage ist nicht neu. Ob & in welcher Weise Aussagen über historische Sachverhalte »wahr« sein können & was die Antwort auf diese Frage über den epistemologischen Status der Geschichtswissenschaft oder Geschichtsschreibung aussagt, wird seit der Antike reflektiert.

Nothing says how it is to be a scholar like a €30 paywall on an article about how hard it is to be an early-career scholar. The abstract is free, the irony is extra.

Pierre Benetti s'entretient avec Bernard Comment (@editionsduseuil.bsky.social) : Les combats de Fiction & Cie (En attendant Nadeau, #bookhistory). www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/11/04/l...

« Raconter la biographie d’un vers, de ses origines à son déclin », donc livrer « un alexandrin mode d’emploi » plutôt qu’un « traité aride » : ce volume est « le laboratoire théorique et formel d’un des plus grands poètes contemporains. » Terrain vague Jacques Roubaud diacritik.com/2025/11/05/t...

Posters by Niklaus Stoecklin (Swiss, 1896–1982; Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...

Three Posters by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden (1887–1938; Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...

My dear friend and wonderful colleague Miloš Vojinović (@infinite-milos.bsky.social) has the best ideas about things to go and see on a first date .... (....) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardane...

Je viens de voir ça. En ai-je besoin ? Non. Est-ce que je le lirais tout de suite (ou en entier) ? Probablement pas. Est-ce que je le veux ? Absolument. www.la-pleiade.fr/Catalogue/GA...

Walter Di Chiara, "Come incantesimati. Leggere “Horcynus Orca” di Stefano D’Arrigo a cinquant’anni dalla sua uscita" (Le parole e le cose): www.leparoleelecose.it/come-incante...

Sarah Griswold, Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate - @cornellupress.bsky.social, September 2025 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Miranda Melcher newbooksnetwork.com/resurrecting...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

No, but careers do.

Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being - @dukepress.bsky.social, October 2025. The Introduction is open access at this link www.dukeupress.edu/pierre-bourd... @anthroprofhage.bsky.social

Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social), Entfesselte Exekutive: Was Trump (für postliberale amerikanische Juristen) rechtfertigt (@redaktionmerkur.bsky.social, #Skystorians) www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/entf...

Gift-link: Walker Mimms, Monet Was Reluctant. Venice Seduced Him (New York Times; #arthistory). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...

This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...

Formidable, comment un auteur étranger peut être accueilli à bras ouverts dans une autre culture (Librairie Compagnie, Paris) :

Miloš Vojinović ( @infinite-milos.bsky.social), First World War in True Colour (Time Machine substack; #skystorians): milosvojinovic.substack.com/p/first-worl...

Paola and Rossella Colombari, Carlo Mollino: The Sensuality of Form / Carlo Mollino. Architetto designer fotografo (Rizzoli / Mondadori Electa, 2026/2025; #skystorians, #photography): www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9788891... and www.mondadorielecta.it/libri/carlo-...

Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy has been translated into English for the first time. On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century. tinyurl.com/2kda9fzu

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.