Harare Review of Books
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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
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📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com
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📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com
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🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
First(ish) time on a (books, definitely) podcast! (I’m really shy and talking is hard). But Dan and Paul were really great to chat with and this is a subject I’m apparently really passionate about 😆
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Big thanks to everyone who joined me this year on A Meal of Thorns, and to everyone who listened along and supported us! Feeling like a thread as we leave 2025 behind us: a chance to boost these again. Great guests & great books—take a look, and take a listen wherever you find your podcasts!
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Big thanks to everyone who joined me this year on A Meal of Thorns, and to everyone who listened along and supported us! Feeling like a thread as we leave 2025 behind us: a chance to boost these again. Great guests & great books—take a look, and take a listen wherever you find your podcasts!
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"To organize her citations and notes for The Sea Around Us, Carson used an extensive notecard system that was organized topically, ranging from navigation to petroleum to oceanography..
Carson consulted more than 1,000 print sources..."
Love the photos of her handwritten note cards.
#Citation
Carson consulted more than 1,000 print sources..."
Love the photos of her handwritten note cards.
#Citation
An Early Climate Advocate: Notecards in the Rachel Carson Papers
beinecke.library.yale.edu
July 3, 2024 at 9:03 PM
"To organize her citations and notes for The Sea Around Us, Carson used an extensive notecard system that was organized topically, ranging from navigation to petroleum to oceanography..
Carson consulted more than 1,000 print sources..."
Love the photos of her handwritten note cards.
#Citation
Carson consulted more than 1,000 print sources..."
Love the photos of her handwritten note cards.
#Citation
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Thanks to podpals @willmcmahon36.bsky.social, @rachelcordasco.bsky.social, @mlclark.bsky.social, @octavia-cade.bsky.social, Sneha Pathak, @tansyg.bsky.social, @redfernjon.bsky.social, Nileena Sunil, Paul March-Russell, @hararereview.com, @thehubble101.bsky.social & Cameron Miguel.
New ep next week!
New ep next week!
Critical Friends - Strange Horizons
strangehorizons.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Thanks to podpals @willmcmahon36.bsky.social, @rachelcordasco.bsky.social, @mlclark.bsky.social, @octavia-cade.bsky.social, Sneha Pathak, @tansyg.bsky.social, @redfernjon.bsky.social, Nileena Sunil, Paul March-Russell, @hararereview.com, @thehubble101.bsky.social & Cameron Miguel.
New ep next week!
New ep next week!
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Does anyone have any nominations for Best Parent Fighting for Their Child?
Based on my 2025 reading, I have handed out a bunch of 'best of' awards on my blog. The one with the most 'winners' was Best Questioning of ‘If AI is alive’?
I didn't realise that had been a theme in my reading until I made up the category.
What are your categories and winners?
I didn't realise that had been a theme in my reading until I made up the category.
What are your categories and winners?
Thoughts: Best Books of 2025 & Reading in 2026
In yesterday’s post, I confirmed that “I’ll be back” in 2026 and promised a look at what I plan to read this year. Before that, though, I want to share some standout books f…
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January 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Does anyone have any nominations for Best Parent Fighting for Their Child?
Roughly, every book I read in 2025, in #Obsidianmd.
January 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Roughly, every book I read in 2025, in #Obsidianmd.
Poetry of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Poetry of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of poetry anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length collections published in 2025 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of fiction,…
www.clmp.org
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Poetry of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
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The reviews in our AfroSurrealism special have stayed with me, too - @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social, @hararereview.com and Asura Lewis all brought critical, productive perspectives on their texts. (Jou on Phillips: "the image of Black liberation freed from a linear model of progress is significant").
30 June 2025
The Afrosurrealist Special Issue, funded by our 2024 Kickstarter.
strangehorizons.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The reviews in our AfroSurrealism special have stayed with me, too - @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social, @hararereview.com and Asura Lewis all brought critical, productive perspectives on their texts. (Jou on Phillips: "the image of Black liberation freed from a linear model of progress is significant").
Give all newborn babies library card automatically, top authors urge
Give all newborn babies library card automatically, top authors urge
Sir Philip Pullman and Richard Osman are among writers to back the proposal to boost literacy.
www.bbc.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Give all newborn babies library card automatically, top authors urge
In the top 2, probly, of things I did in 2025 💫
🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:47 PM
In the top 2, probly, of things I did in 2025 💫
Oh, and this was lovely
Join us on December 10th, 2025, for a virtual reading celebrating the winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! Learn more and register: pen.org/event/pen-da...
PEN/Dau Prize x Catapult: Reading from Best Debut Short Stories 2025
Ten winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers will read selections from their award-winning stories.
pen.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Oh, and this was lovely
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A Real-Life Monster Movie - Reactor
Giant mindless monsters swarm the coasts, overwhelm fisheries, and defying all attempts to stop them...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The women-focused media and lifestyle company, headed by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers. Its inaugural pick will be announced in January.
Hello Sunshine to Host Gen Z–Focused Book Club
The women-focused media and lifestyle company, owned by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers. Its…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The women-focused media and lifestyle company, headed by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers. Its inaugural pick will be announced in January.
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Not so long, long ago, in our very own galaxy:
"At Cambridge(...) Wole Soyinka, the future Nobel Prize laureate from Nigeria, had been denied a visiting appointment in the department the year I arrived, ostensibly because African literature was not English literature."
Henry Louis Gates @nybooks.com
"At Cambridge(...) Wole Soyinka, the future Nobel Prize laureate from Nigeria, had been denied a visiting appointment in the department the year I arrived, ostensibly because African literature was not English literature."
Henry Louis Gates @nybooks.com
Suddenly, Jamaica | Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American ...
www.nybooks.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Westland Books invites submission for vol. 2
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
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sites.google.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Westland Books invites submission for vol. 2
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
ICYMT:
For the Books of the Year issue at the WSJ, I've written about a trend that struck me in a lot of 2025 fiction--a revived interest in the art of the story. I sense that novelists are tired of ceding the role of the storyteller to advertisers and podcasters. (Gift link.) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: The Year Novelists Reclaimed the Narrative
A lively plot in a literary novel? The worthy works of 2025 revel in storytelling.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
ICYMT:
2026 Angoulême Comics Festival cancelled amid calls for boycott www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Next year's Angoulême Comics Festival cancelled amid calls for boycott
The cancellation of the upcoming festival was expected after a monthslong crisis over its governance. Authors and publishers pulled out of the event last month.
www.euronews.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
2026 Angoulême Comics Festival cancelled amid calls for boycott www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
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A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.
Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Here are the 2025 debuts by trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming authors you should know about.
chireviewofbooks.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
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On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹
January 1, 2026 at 1:04 PM
On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹
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The Shichifukujin journey in the Takarabune (宝船 'Treasure Ship') to the human realm for the first three days of New Year.
Placing an image of the Takarabune beneath your pillow on January 2nd is said to encourage dreams.
If you dream of the boat, the year will be a lucky one.
#Japan #NewYear #宝船
Placing an image of the Takarabune beneath your pillow on January 2nd is said to encourage dreams.
If you dream of the boat, the year will be a lucky one.
#Japan #NewYear #宝船
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
January 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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PLEASE SHARE: WoodPig Press is a new micro-press specialising in speculative fiction and non-fiction. We open to submissions on 5th January 2026. When we do, we're going to be doing things a bit differently... (thread)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
PLEASE SHARE: WoodPig Press is a new micro-press specialising in speculative fiction and non-fiction. We open to submissions on 5th January 2026. When we do, we're going to be doing things a bit differently... (thread)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors