Lizzie Wade
@lizziewade.bsky.social
Archaeology writer for Science mag and others. Author of APOCALYPSE, which will make you feel better about the end of the world. Subscribe to The Antiquarian newsletter: https://theantiquarian.email
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Lizzie Wade
@lizziewade.bsky.social
· Dec 10
The Best Books of 2025
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
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So thrilled that APOCALYPSE is a New Yorker best book of the year! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
bless you @brittanytrang.com!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for a year
If anyone else's personal Gmail suddenly started giving AI summaries of your emails with no option to turn them off:
I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function)
I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function)
January 30, 2026 at 12:02 AM
bless you @brittanytrang.com!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for a year
Let's talk restocking Sprouts and Kusimayu's goat theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...
The most haunting scene in Pluribus
On culture and conformity
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January 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Let's talk restocking Sprouts and Kusimayu's goat theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...
I've received so many great recs for other bog body books since I sent this that I think I'll have to do a second installment. Reply with your favorites please!
I recently read three books featuring bog bodies and I have thoughts, obviously theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...
The bog bodies book club
Reviews of three recent entries
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January 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I've received so many great recs for other bog body books since I sent this that I think I'll have to do a second installment. Reply with your favorites please!
I recently read three books featuring bog bodies and I have thoughts, obviously theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...
The bog bodies book club
Reviews of three recent entries
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January 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I recently read three books featuring bog bodies and I have thoughts, obviously theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...
As this difficult and confusing year draws to a close, give the gift of embracing the end of the world. My book APOCALYPSE will show you how bookshop.org/p/books/apoc...
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
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December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As this difficult and confusing year draws to a close, give the gift of embracing the end of the world. My book APOCALYPSE will show you how bookshop.org/p/books/apoc...
So thrilled that APOCALYPSE is a New Yorker best book of the year! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
The Best Books of 2025
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
www.newyorker.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So thrilled that APOCALYPSE is a New Yorker best book of the year! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
This holiday season, curl up with these melancholy yet stirring tales of worlds past, present, and alternate -- all inspirations as I wrote APOCALYPSE theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...
The books that made APOCALYPSE
My subconscious’s bibliography
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December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This holiday season, curl up with these melancholy yet stirring tales of worlds past, present, and alternate -- all inspirations as I wrote APOCALYPSE theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...
The Global North will go to any length to conceal its past from itself, and it's destroying the world. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-t...
Is the past a distraction?
Not when the future depends on it
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December 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Global North will go to any length to conceal its past from itself, and it's destroying the world. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-t...
Cool talk alert! I gotta spend more time in Peru 🇵🇪 🏺 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Cool talk alert! I gotta spend more time in Peru 🇵🇪 🏺 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
Thanksgiving dinner still not sitting quite right? Join me in excoriating colonialism, history's greatest apocalypse, on this week's Factually! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_Y...
We All Feel Like the World's Ending Because It Is (Kind Of) with Lizzie Wade
YouTube video by Adam Conover
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December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thanksgiving dinner still not sitting quite right? Join me in excoriating colonialism, history's greatest apocalypse, on this week's Factually! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_Y...
Not sure what to get your dad for the holidays? Dads agree: APOCALYPSE is a great dad gift! www.harpercollins.com/products/apo...
Apocalypse
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Boo...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Not sure what to get your dad for the holidays? Dads agree: APOCALYPSE is a great dad gift! www.harpercollins.com/products/apo...
My newfound Viking interest came upon me unexpectedly and at exactly the right time—a feeling the Vikings would have recognized. 🏺
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The warp of destiny
I’m into the Vikings now
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November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My newfound Viking interest came upon me unexpectedly and at exactly the right time—a feeling the Vikings would have recognized. 🏺
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Great story about the value of Indigenous-led archaeology in the Amazon...against this backdrop: "a contest promoted by the company OpenAI challenged citizen researchers worldwide to use [lidar] to find ancient cities in the Amazon" with no consultation 😡🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
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November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Great story about the value of Indigenous-led archaeology in the Amazon...against this backdrop: "a contest promoted by the company OpenAI challenged citizen researchers worldwide to use [lidar] to find ancient cities in the Amazon" with no consultation 😡🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...
"But this is the fundamental difference between art and content. The art exists without you, and it has to stand up for itself." This separation has been one of the best and worst feelings of publishing a book defector.com/how-normal-i...
How Normal Is A Celebrity Allowed To Be? | Defector
Elyse Myers is famous for being normal—32-year-old brunette, married with two kids, lives in Nebraska kind of normal. Her press often refers to her as “The Internet’s Best Friend.” In her four years i...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"But this is the fundamental difference between art and content. The art exists without you, and it has to stand up for itself." This separation has been one of the best and worst feelings of publishing a book defector.com/how-normal-i...
Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species
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November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
"But there’s an even more insidious myth about technological inevitability and its capacity for destruction lurking deeper in the past: The supposed superiority of European technology at the time of contact with the Americas." theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
Is AI an apocalypse?
Against technological inevitability
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November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"But there’s an even more insidious myth about technological inevitability and its capacity for destruction lurking deeper in the past: The supposed superiority of European technology at the time of contact with the Americas." theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
Reposted by Lizzie Wade
With the History Channel now getting into the AI game, it's probably not too long before we start getting AI *giant* human skeletons.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
With the History Channel now getting into the AI game, it's probably not too long before we start getting AI *giant* human skeletons.
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AI isn't an apocalypse. But our myths about technological progress might be. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
Is AI an apocalypse?
Against technological inevitability
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November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
AI isn't an apocalypse. But our myths about technological progress might be. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
This week in The Antiquarian, the long and winding road of Moctezuma's headdress theantiquarian.email/archive/empi...
Empires of feathers
On the penacho de Moctezuma
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November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This week in The Antiquarian, the long and winding road of Moctezuma's headdress theantiquarian.email/archive/empi...
My little blog is growing up 🥹 It's now The Antiquarian, a weekly newsletter exploring what we know about the past, how we learn it, and why it matters. theantiquarian.email/archive/welc...
Welcome to The Antiquarian
Because the past matters more than ever
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November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My little blog is growing up 🥹 It's now The Antiquarian, a weekly newsletter exploring what we know about the past, how we learn it, and why it matters. theantiquarian.email/archive/welc...