Look what arrived @shonatiger.hararereview.com and @tashjoeza.bsky.social !!! #booklovers

Congratulations to @quinnslobodian.com for winning the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Hayek‘s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right! Read an excerpt from the book here:

if I were more ambitious, I'd publish something called A Companion to The Blue Clerk if you're reading Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk, here are my reading notes, all 177 (!) of them gukira.wordpress.com/tag/the-blue...

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Energy Transition NOW! 40% books on anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist energy sovereignty and clean power www.plutobooks.com/energy-trans...

We would like to submit Molly Templeton's column Mark As Read for consideration within the "Best Related Work" category. @mollytempleton.com writes on the culture of reading – covering everything from what we read and why to the ways we organize our bookshelves.

thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came

There isn’t a whole lot of Scottish sci-fi out there, so I’m looking forward to crawling back under the duvet with this copy of Rex Burke’s “Third Loch from the Sun,” bought, I confess, purely on the basis of its title. #BookSky

I am finally reading Frederick Pohl's Gateway. I am v amused at the smoking on-board the spaceship.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

These stories are stunningly dark, stark but fueled by compassion. I hope some day they can be made available to anglophone readers in a more artful translation. Nonetheless, Antonym is an indie publisher worth supporting.

#Audiofuturism is here!!!! fordhampress.com/audiofuturis... @fordhampress.bsky.social

Keen to get into this one soon

REMEMBER THEM Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide Honoring the lives and legacies of martyrer Palestinian academics. These biographies are a modest attempt to convey a sense of what their families, their communities, Palestine, and all of us have lost. rememberinggazascholars.org

We'd like to reopen the bookstore in a brick and mortar format and adopt a shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code York at checkout. Pictured is one of the spaces we like for the bookstore. (It's on York Rd, hence the name.) carpelibrumbaltimore.com

I actually really like the Tor Essential STATIONS OF THE TIDE cover, would have loved to see them continue down that style (but then of course the original is Literally An Unbeatable Cover, why would you try)

My head was full of the worlds of Dwain Worrell's Otherworldly this week.

"Fear of a Melmac Planet." There's an ugly set of anti-immigrant subtexts baked into the premise of most sitcoms about aliens stuck on earth. Link: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/03/fear...

Latest in the "when is it climate fiction / literary realism / science fiction" debate. Also just a very fun and lively read, I raced through this when I read it. locusmag.com/review/short...

Stephen Colbert is co-writing a new Lord of the Rings movie and Channing Tatum has written a romance novel with Roxane Gay. lithub.com/two-of-your-...

Colson Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his recurring characters grapple with the ways their lives are defined by crime and the city they call home. It’s the greatest New York novel in years. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

I may have made a tiny book magnet other day

sorry I'm like this y'all but you have FIVE MORE DAYS, is all, and because I have totally forgotten to mention it, let me just add that one lucky nominator will win a whole pile of books, which is to say the entire 2025 shortlist! could be yours! go forth and nominate!

On April 2–3, writer, performance poet, and Rumi translator Haleh Liza Gafori will headline the 2026 Puterbaugh Lit Fest at the University of Oklahoma. Bring all your Rumi fans and join us! Event details here: www.puterbaughfestival.org/events/event/.

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

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📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

Going through a Tiny Chef phase

Strange Horizons - Special Interview: Panashe Chigumadzi By Geoff Ryman strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Does not totally capture how looming and monolithic this building is in person. Tallest thing for miles. There is a deep basement with amazing archives of historical books too. I was maybe 11 or 12 when I went here? Completely awestruck. It’s neat what feelings brutalism can inspire sometimes.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMASS Amherst is a 28-story, 286-foot orange brick tower, and is known as one of the tallest academic research libraries in the world. It features extensive collections, a digital media lab, and panoramic views from its upper floors. Wow!

Very excited about this news. I can’t wait to hear whether DNA research proves that the remains belong to D’Artagnan. Just like it helped identifying Richard III. #genealogy #earlymodern www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"reading changes our neurochemistry in real time. Reading isn’t just about decoding words on a page. It’s a complex neurochemical process that affects everything from our heart rate to our hormone levels."

Okorafor, Talabi, and Ihezue are Finalists for the 2026 Nebula Awards brittlepaper.com/2026/03/okor...

Representation is sooo important

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/proj... Today at the NOAF blog, @carturo222.bsky.social returns again this week, this time to write about Project: Hail Mary

As someone raised on both sides of the ditch, I have a mental list of words from either/both Australian and NZ English that I have used without thinking about it in formal contexts but which go largely unrecognised in other Englishes: fossick, rort, spruik, stoush, removalist, runholder

Alice Wong’s Celebration of Life, March 25 from 11am-1pm PT. Links and info:

"Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, it causes physical changes in the brain. In seconds, new circuits & memories are formed that can change the way you think about the world forever. Memory leaves its mark so that we are able to carry around the past inside our heads" - George Johnson

i have been thoroughly enjoying @norahwoodsey.com's Wave Function series, having finished the first book (When the Wave Collapses) norahwoodsey.com/books

Captioned trailer w a bit of Feb’s glorious leg of Paul Mellon Centre’s DISABLED LEGACIES fest… Join us this wkend for more, free+hybrid: www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for... ‘I feel hopeful. I feel like that is a practice.’ Amelia Cavallo m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTn... #DisabilityJustice

“In the 1990s, a remarkable wave of Black sitcoms and sketch comedy reshaped American television. Shows like “In Living Color” and “Living Single” reflected a wide range of Black life and helped broaden how millions of viewers understood Black experiences.” #blackbooksky

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This is why I'm wary of these types of stories. We really need SF that is accessible to wider audiences to start looking human made climate change straight in the face. Aurora by KSR is a prime example of stories that need to enter into the general population's imagination.

Beautiful multilingual poetry collection by the Congolese community of Liverpool! A creative response to the Nkisi, spiritual objects from the Kongo region. In Lingala, English, French etc. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/if-o... #poetry #multilingualism #history #Congo #Liverpool #Lingala

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

My second brand new Terra Affirma comics poem is no longer paywalled! Hope you check it out and consider subscribing ♥️ sarahmgilman.substack.com/p/the-harrier

New Braunfels ISD in Texas used an AI program to try to comply with Texas law SB 13. The result? The banning of some 1,500 books including celebrity memoirs, books by former presidents, and dozens of canonical classics.

musician Zach Bryan bought the "On the Road" scroll for $12.1 million, "setting a record for a literary manuscript, according to Christie’s." news.artnet.com/art-world/ja...

Hmmm, never seen so many South African flags. 😂