@lizzyattree.bsky.social, this is not a drill!!!!!!!

“Toni Morrison was funny as hell,” Namwali Serpell writes. “[She] makes no bones about making jest of incest, lynching, murder, even infanticide in many of her works.”

Departure(s) by Julian Barnes review – this final novel is a slippery affair

“I don’t know if I believe in signs. But in that moment, I needed one.” On the cycle of life, death, and birding.

David Szalay’s “Flesh is an attempt to write richly about a hollow man, in that hollow man’s own impoverished language.” —Kevin Power https://go.nybooks.com/49DpGvp

June Feature: “Humanity and endemic plastic” by Tessilim Adjayi More than an artistic exploration, this photo is a call to action against plastic pollution in African ecologies. It urges communities to reject plastic and adopt sustainable alternatives.

how would you describe this century so far 𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 famously you have spoken of the uselessness of interviews 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘐 can you 𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦 I wanted to use the word ‘labyrinthine’ ‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Last week, Cinema Africa hosted a screening of Fanon at Cineplex Bayreuth, followed by a discussion led by Thierry Boudjekeu and Marie Tsogo together with the film’s director, Jean-Claude Barny. Cinema Africa will be back in January 2026! @unibayreuth.bsky.social

@lizzyattree.bsky.social you’re welcome ☺️❤️

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...

I wrote this blogpost for @sunypress.bsky.social about the process of writing my book, Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is out now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/An...

@ryantopper.bsky.social hi 👋🏾

@lizzyattree.bsky.social 💖💖💖 youtu.be/WM7-PYtXtJM?...

“I wasn’t in Paris to avenge my postcolonial trauma but that wasn’t NOT on the table, either.” Benedict Nguyen on (re)learning the colonizer’s language.

Sigrid Nunez, a writer I have admired and whose books I've loved for a long time, has included my novel in her New Yorker list of recommendations and now I want to read every one of them.

‘This is Helen Garner! A woman fluent in French, who compares translations of Rilke for fun. Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman.’ Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on the Australian novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’ Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In his 1962 essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” James Baldwin dissects the mentality of white Americans: “not only overt racists but the sort likely to be well-meaning readers of The New Yorker,” Kevin Young writes.

Steamy reading recommendations for Valentine's Day... thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” — the Creature in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social I’m chuffed you showed up on my timeline- mutual friends, perhaps?

@lizzyattree.bsky.social !!!!

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec12 Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅

@halfbook.bsky.social omg! I was thinking about you recently! Catch up soon xxx

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" retains romantic-comedy tropes but finds surprising depth in a devastating plot twist, Sophie Gilbert writes.

@dorisl26.bsky.social nice to see you here! Can’t wait to see you in the new building 💞

@sarahviren.bsky.social talks to @laurenmarkham.bsky.social: “It is now clear to me that ‘what is the power of words?’ is not an answerable question, or if it is, its answer isn’t static.”

“But in their enemies’ absence, many of these Left-leaning posters have just reverted to dunking on each other, preferring the catharsis of sectarian conflict over the hard work of organizing.” www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

@lizzyattree.bsky.social Duuuude!

Thanks so much for sharing @poptartology.bsky.social @africa.theconversation.com Once again literature often leads the way in describing the terrors & dangers of #ZamaZama life in South Africa/Lesotho @zakesmda.bsky.social #Stillfontein #SouthAfrica #Marikana #NeverAgain #ANC #Zuma #Ramaphosa

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This includes the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network Visiting Fellowship @eehnetwork.bsky.social. Do take a look at the IASH site if that's your area and you'd like to come to Edinburgh for a visit! Also postdocs with EH as a priority, for more junior scholars.

"Theory wonks will love this rigorous & surprisingly playful survey of the genre of #autotheory." The Millions recommends @alexbrostoff.bsky.social & Vilashini Cooppan's "Autotheories" in their winter 2025 preview!

Gramsci and Hall insist that you must look relentlessly at things and people as they are, face your prospects with brutal honesty, and act in ways that you think can have an effect. In these ways they are an organizer’s theorists. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

#FreePalestine #Peace

[W]hat believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. ▪️George Eliot, 1871-1872

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Oh, she is truly a marvel of a woman ⭐️ Consider me thoroughly obsessed, @debele.bsky.social ! youtu.be/vM3EGoowAJk?...

I mean more than weather. I mean specificity of character, of milieu, of the apparently insignificant detail. [...] I no longer have time for the playing out. Call that a travel advisory. A narrative alert. ▪️Joan Didion, 1984

All populism devolves into something like antisemitism because it blames actors rather than systems. Before he became a parody of himself, Žižek had a good article on this exact point: