LOLITA IS NOT A LOVE STORY feat. me, @drallylouks.bsky.social, a word that rhymes with schmedophile, and a truly manic energy the pod has never before experienced. Available now @thisguysucked.com

White feminism fuels Islamophobia. Shahed Ezaydi’s The Othered Woman tells us that Muslim women are done being left out of the conversation. www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

Really enjoyed this one, an early highlight of the year. Also (as mentioned in the review) fascinating to pair with When There Are Wolves Again.

it is absolutely thrilling to watch nominations come in for the Le Guin Prize but there's one thing I want to say one more time: middle grade and YA novels are eligible for this prize! I would really love to see more nominations come from those categories

Just screamed so loud my neighbor texted me to make sure I was okay

Now is the time to learn how to effectively use other search engines. Google is destroying itself.

My latest story is out! It braids together Chinese myths of immortality with a love for tea, and it is one of my favorite things that I've written yet. Plus there's a beautiful narration by Si Chen

"In an era dominated by short-form videos, rapidly declining attention spans and instant gratification, Brennan’s slow, steady approach to publishing is a welcome anomaly." Read @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview w/ @tortoisebooks.bsky.social's Gerald Brennan! chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/20/i...

Super grateful to @rachellayown.bsky.social and @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social for this lovely interview! Get a glimpse of the publisher's life...if you dare! chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/20/i...

I wrote for just 2.5 hrs and felt so very tired

Kit de Waal, Katriona O’Sullivan and Katie Clapham have been unveiled by the Booksellers Association as the ambassadors of this year’s Independent Bookshop Week, which this year marks its 20th anniversary 👇 #BookSky

bosses demanded people stop working from home

Three new 2026 books about book censorship and the freedom to read. That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/2026-books-a...

The Virginia Festival of the Book kicks off today! Take 30% off these books by participating authors using promo code <10VABOOK26> when you order through our site! upress.virginia.edu #VABookFest #Booksky

In "Moving Stones," Jennifer DeVere Brody blends biography, history, and theory to explore the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the 19th century. Read the introduction for free now: buff.ly/mmU4AQi

Love when I start getting into the literature of a new country and it’s all “here’s a bunch of amazing literature you’ve never encountered before but it’s about to change your life”. The only Iranian book I had read was the Persepolis series but I’m trying to change that. Drop your recommendations!

hey nyc homies what are you doing on may 2 and do you wanna hang out and talk about dark academia with me, Naomi Novik, Mónica Ojeda, and Elisabeth Thomas?

Here's the full story about Dial being closed, which leaves some questions unanswered. Notably Dial is being folded into Putnam, as was done with Razorbill in 2023. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

It's pub day! RTK

I‘m so so proud of my story in SH last year (and so so thrilled with its gorgeous artwork by Catarina João); please consider it & all the wonderful stories / poems / editorial work featured in SH last year, esp. this wonderful Nebula Finalist poem by my brilliant friend @jenniferhudak.bsky.social:

And speaking of departments: All of our editors are eligible in the Best Editor, Short Form category! These are the volunteers working to publish the content you enjoy on a WEEKLY basis. That's no small feat! If you appreciated the pieces we published in 2025, remember the teams behind the scenes!

As in previous years, Strange Horizons is eligible for Best Semiprozine. We thought we'd give you all 5 reasons to keep considering us.

It's the 2026 awards season and time for Hugo nominations! Once again we hope that you'll consider Strange Horizons and the works we published throughout 2025. You can find all the content we published last year in this very handy post: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Shucks and the Wild Hunt roam the folk landscape of Dartmoor; Dewer, a Wisht huntsman is said to chase people up to the highest point in the area around Dewerstone Woods until they fall to their death… #PhantomsFriday

Happy Nowruz 🌸 In this scene, Bārbad the Bard sings from the tree to King Khusraw Parvīz II and Queen Shīrīn in the royal garden at Nawrūz. Explore on Digital Bodleian: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/79361790-4671-4c4f-983a-c40044671f56/surfaces/ae6a71fb-fe47-47d9-ba21-2160ab67dffa/

Pigeon milk.

Ew of course he does

Thank you to Edward Nawotka at @publisherswkly.bsky.social for writing an article about SUPERBOOK, the new initiative from the Italian Cultural Institute in New York to bring together Italian authors and American readers. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #booksky

Hmmm currently Shelved by Genre by @rangedtouch.bsky.social, @mealofthorns.bsky.social and Stange Horizons' Critical Friends podcast. But my favourite two remains @coodestreet.bsky.social and @ouropinions.bsky.social.

"Last year, the NYPL completed a $176M renovation of five Carnegie Libraries in The Bronx, Manhattan, + Staten Island. They’re pilots of Carnegie renovations to come.... The climate-sensitive + community-informed transformations are models for balancing historic architecture + contemporary use" 🤗

I recently had a chance to speak to a marine biologist and it was one of the most depressing conversations I’ve ever been in. We were talking about the rate of species collapse in the oceans. “I just don’t know how to get people to care,” was a sentence in that stuck.

In Cape Town, South Africa, lobster curry (kreef curry) was once an inexpensive (and delicious) everyday meal among the Coloured working class. No it's only for very special occasions & the affluent.

Oysters & lobster were once so plentiful that they were poor people's food. In the 17th-19th centuries in Chesapeake Bay region, oysters were food for the enslaved.

Don't even tell me about the heights unless they're wuthering

(also: people need to get over the idea that important knowledge cannot be conveyed in 20-second clips before book fetishism took over, many societies taught using aphorisms and proverbs and short stories and riddles we know how to condense knowledge so it's effective)

I'm very fond of all the young people on TikTok who are amateur historians. They do such fascinating—and necessary—work. We will need to talk about digital public intellectuals, because that's what these young people are.

Impressive how fast this book has now been memory-holed already. Publisher websites, Amazon, etc etc all just turning up 404 pages.

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

Grew up in the southern Oregon coast and lack of snow pack was the stuff of nightmares. It’s horrific for wildlife, drinking water and food security. Because if farmers can’t do their job it becomes harder and less affordable to eat.

Friday morning reshelving in the #LateImperialLibrary as we approach the autumnal equinox in #NorthJozi. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🚪🗝🍂🌍⛅️

A Meal of Thorns and SFUltra

💥Every Monument Will Fall UK Paperback Tour Spring 2026 Thur 30 April Birmingham Fri 1 May London Tue 5 May Oxford Wed 6 May Manchester Thurs 7 May Bristol More details/tickets here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

This still looks futuristic to me. Would never use it for a computer. Would 100% use it to fly a spaceship.

Joseph Tonda, Postcolonial Imperialism: Critique of the Society of Dazzlements - trans. Cheryl Smeall, @dukepress.bsky.social, April 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/postcolonial... Introduction available open access assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

Read our interview with Katie here: womensprize.com/in-conversat...

Katie Kitamura’s ‘Audition’ takes readers on a hypnotic and exhilarating journey of intrigue as she interrogates the roles we play – as parent, partner, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.