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2026 will be a year where I nibble at a large number of books without having the luxury of devoting an unbroken length of time to a book, which isn't much of a reading. Today, I sampled a few pages of Miaow, a delightful Benito Pérez Galdós (the Spanish Balzac) novel.
If the start of the year is to hold any portent regarding how reading books would go this year, I read bits of Trollope (Can you forgive her?), Balzac (Père Goriot), Zola (Le Ventre de Paris), Emmanuel Bove (A Winter's Journal), Aidan Higgins (Scenes from a receding Past). The Balzac is a re-read.
January 5, 2026 at 2:10 AM
2026 will be a year where I nibble at a large number of books without having the luxury of devoting an unbroken length of time to a book, which isn't much of a reading. Today, I sampled a few pages of Miaow, a delightful Benito Pérez Galdós (the Spanish Balzac) novel.
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When you’re too extreme for Marine LePen… 1/ x.com/mlp_officiel...
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 AM
When you’re too extreme for Marine LePen… 1/ x.com/mlp_officiel...
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In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
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From Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
January 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
From Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
If the start of the year is to hold any portent regarding how reading books would go this year, I read bits of Trollope (Can you forgive her?), Balzac (Père Goriot), Zola (Le Ventre de Paris), Emmanuel Bove (A Winter's Journal), Aidan Higgins (Scenes from a receding Past). The Balzac is a re-read.
January 2, 2026 at 5:47 AM
If the start of the year is to hold any portent regarding how reading books would go this year, I read bits of Trollope (Can you forgive her?), Balzac (Père Goriot), Zola (Le Ventre de Paris), Emmanuel Bove (A Winter's Journal), Aidan Higgins (Scenes from a receding Past). The Balzac is a re-read.
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In 2025 I read a bunch of books. Here are my favourites, in no particular order...
January 1, 2026 at 10:11 PM
In 2025 I read a bunch of books. Here are my favourites, in no particular order...
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I co-wrote a book on a popular #Jain #textile #art form…and now it’s out!
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
December 31, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I co-wrote a book on a popular #Jain #textile #art form…and now it’s out!
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings.
Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...
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Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker. Absolutely so good, just stunning realism, amazing handling of perspective shifts, and embodies summer in the Central Valley.
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Cassandra at the Abyss
After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Isn’t everyone a little bit mentally ...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker. Absolutely so good, just stunning realism, amazing handling of perspective shifts, and embodies summer in the Central Valley.
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
Other people like it too, for their own reasons: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...
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"...a white mob that, with the help of federal troops, killed hundreds of black sharecroppers in the town of Elaine, on the eastern edge of Arkansas."
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
The Elaine massacre of October 1919, writes Atul Dev, represents “a pivotal episode of American history, consigned inexplicably to the margins.” https://go.nybooks.com/4s3ui6p
‘They Killed Our People’ | Atul Dev
In the spring of 2008, at a small desk piled with papers and notebooks, Lisa Hicks-Gilbert sat spellbound in front of a laptop. After a lifetime of
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December 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"...a white mob that, with the help of federal troops, killed hundreds of black sharecroppers in the town of Elaine, on the eastern edge of Arkansas."
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.
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aw man. he was so cool
RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
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The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
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December 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
aw man. he was so cool
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Au Brésil, Lula souhaite baisser le temps de travail hebdomadaire à 36 heures sans réduction de salaires
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Au Brésil, Lula souhaite baisser le temps de travail hebdomadaire à 36 heures sans réduction de salaires
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/DMN
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Can you tell how I feel about that show?
December 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Can you tell how I feel about that show?
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I wrote this introduction. A complicated text about a simple concept in a complex moment
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Rock My Soul: Black People & Self-Esteem
In this new edition, with an introduction by Tressie McMillan Cottom, world-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing Black Americans: ...
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December 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I wrote this introduction. A complicated text about a simple concept in a complex moment
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i imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz
December 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
i imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant
- Czeslaw Milosz
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I am just reeling after finishing the translation of Sibylle Grimert's 2022 novel The Last of its Kind, the story of a #19thc French naturalist who finds himself companion to the last surviving great auk. About loss, extinction, ethics, other minds, it's also a subtle response to Frankenstein.
December 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I am just reeling after finishing the translation of Sibylle Grimert's 2022 novel The Last of its Kind, the story of a #19thc French naturalist who finds himself companion to the last surviving great auk. About loss, extinction, ethics, other minds, it's also a subtle response to Frankenstein.
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ACM digital library is now open access.
https://dl.acm.org/
They have moved to an author/institution pay model, and features like stats and advanced search now require a "premium" subscription. I do my searching in Gemini now, and Google Scholar has good stats.
https://dl.acm.org/
They have moved to an author/institution pay model, and features like stats and advanced search now require a "premium" subscription. I do my searching in Gemini now, and Google Scholar has good stats.
December 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
ACM digital library is now open access.
https://dl.acm.org/
They have moved to an author/institution pay model, and features like stats and advanced search now require a "premium" subscription. I do my searching in Gemini now, and Google Scholar has good stats.
https://dl.acm.org/
They have moved to an author/institution pay model, and features like stats and advanced search now require a "premium" subscription. I do my searching in Gemini now, and Google Scholar has good stats.
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Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation a state crime, demands apology and reparations.
Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation a state crime, demands apology and reparations | Africanews
Algerian MPs have passed a law that declares France's colonisation of the country a state crime and demands reparations and an apology.
www.africanews.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation a state crime, demands apology and reparations.
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Wow, phenomenal list. And the film recommendations!
In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones (1989) is set in 1970s India and features architecture students in their final year of college.
Part autobiographical, a young Arundhati Roy relives her own experiences. She's in it!
#FilmSky #Lit
In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones (1989) is set in 1970s India and features architecture students in their final year of college.
Part autobiographical, a young Arundhati Roy relives her own experiences. She's in it!
#FilmSky #Lit
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The book is divided into two parts: Enlightenment as viewed by philosophers from Kant to Joseph Ratzinger, a frightening journey where all the ills of modernity are heaped upon the centering of man; the second part, which I have not read yet but appears to be an historian's recuperation of the idea.
December 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The book is divided into two parts: Enlightenment as viewed by philosophers from Kant to Joseph Ratzinger, a frightening journey where all the ills of modernity are heaped upon the centering of man; the second part, which I have not read yet but appears to be an historian's recuperation of the idea.
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Rene Magritte - Sketch for : Les Chants de Maldoror, Comte de Lautréamont, 1945. Conté crayon on paper, 23.8 x 18.1 cm.
December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Rene Magritte - Sketch for : Les Chants de Maldoror, Comte de Lautréamont, 1945. Conté crayon on paper, 23.8 x 18.1 cm.
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Looking for a quick holiday read, snuggle up and enjoy Lawrence Buell's glowing review of Amitav Ghosh's Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire and the Environment.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/lawrence_bue...
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/lawrence_bue...
December 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Looking for a quick holiday read, snuggle up and enjoy Lawrence Buell's glowing review of Amitav Ghosh's Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire and the Environment.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/lawrence_bue...
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/lawrence_bue...
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your pick for the one best novel published in 2025, and why?
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
your pick for the one best novel published in 2025, and why?