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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... #booksky

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu; When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift; The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell; Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Remain by Nicholas Sparks with M Night Shyam...

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 4d

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The Devil Book by Asta Olivia Nordenhof review – a Danish series that burns with purpose

This incandescent novel takes in lockdown, the devil, bad investments, erotic thrills and the deadly fire on the Scandinavian Star ferry

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 8d

Great list: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#booksky

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 16d

“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.”

Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇

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They Want Their Country Back, but It Was Never Theirs

This month’s “Unite the Kingdom” march was the biggest far-right rally in British history. Sponsored by Elon Musk, it seeks not just to install Nigel Farage in government but to build a mass street mo...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 10d

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary

In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 11d

End of the month, and that means: the link round-up is upon us! Some cool reviews, some great interviews, and some insightful essays from around the web:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/29/w...

Wow! Signal: September 2025

Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. N…

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 9d

I gave up on McEwan a long time ago but this lovely review from Nina Allan has convinced me to try the new one:
www.ninaallan.co.uk?p=7171
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What We Can Know by Ian McEwan – The Spider's House

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Netpol @netpol.org · 9d

The problem with the makers of BBC Panorama programme is that they genuinely think they "exposed" a otherwise "hidden culture" of misogyny and racism inside the Metropolitan Police, when really they just reconfirmed it www.bbc.com/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that "toxic behaviours", far from being driven out of the Met, have been driven underground.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 12d

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 12d

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... #booksky

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US

The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiress

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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 15d

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

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mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 16d

#ScienceFictionWatch
Robin Ince discovers how black holes have captured the imagination of film-makers and authors and hears how Einstein first conceived of them over a century ago.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Writing the Universe, The fabric of the universe

Robin Ince investigates the mysteries of black holes.

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 19d

Great article by Ta-Nehisi Coates:
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
#antiracism

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 24d

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved!
horror.org/awards/curre...

HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 28d

There are Reasons for This by Nini Berndt
reviewed by E. C. Barrett

Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza
reviewed by Nileena Sunil

Memories From The Jungle by Tristan Garcia, trans. by Christopher Beach
reviewed by Will Emmons

Link to latest issue in bio!

#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #bookreviews

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"There Are Reasons for This is unmistakably a novel of our times. While that might sound depressing, thanks to Berndt’s vivid, unexpected writing and fully imagined misfits, her portrayal of what it’s like to have to keep on getting on with life while the world is ending is unexpectedly cathartic."
reviewer: E. C. Barrett

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"I really appreciated how this book allowed us to watch Elif grow into her own person amid extraordinary circumstances, and I really enjoyed how the character dynamics were written. The novella as a whole was really engaging..."
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"In Memories From The Jungle, there can be no synthesis between civilization and nature. They must be kept totally apart. Humans must live on space stations and animals on the Earth. Otherwise they must destroy each other."
reviewer: Will Emmons

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 28d

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‘I’ve seen so many people go down rabbit holes’: Patricia Lockwood on losing touch with reality

The Priestdaddy author on quitting social media, Maga conspiracies and how her second novel grew out of a period of post-Covid mania

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 29d

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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

The Naked Light by Bridget Collins; Exiles by Mason Coile; Alchemised by SenLinYu; Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei; Big Time by Jordan Prosser

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 29d

Quelle surprise
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage

Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds

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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The neoliberal revolution may have dismantled the planning capacity of the US state, but industrial policy lived on in the Pentagon."

Always glad to see @triofrancos.bsky.social's analysis. Stop reading unserious "is Trump a degrowther?" think pieces and read this instead.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 6

‘If we can build among ourselves relations in which we mutually respect one another and treat one another equally, that's part of the work already.’

On the podcast, @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets to discuss David Graeber’s life and work. Listen on our website: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Podcast: Richard Seymour and Thomas Jones · The Debt to David Graeber

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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · Sep 4

A recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1...

Panel 2: Fascism as Capitalist Counter Revolution

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29d

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms

Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Books - A Manifesto | Ian Patterson | London Review Bookshop

A manifesto for the importance of books and a guide to expanding your reading horizons by the much-loved writer, critic, poet and translator who has read it allThis is a…

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

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