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october 2025 - reading reflections
i asked myself why he was so unlovable.
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copy of intermezzo sauntering down new oxford street springing up every few moments to brush people's shoulders
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It took 2 wks in customs I think but it’s here. I read 30 pages and it made me so upset. I love you chantal
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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“Hailed as South America’s answer to Cormac McCarthy,” Ana Paula Maia is back w/ a new novel ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH (trans Padma Viswanathan) ✨

Read @bopgoth.bsky.social’s review below & grab it now via @charcopress.com

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At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath
By Adrian Van Young
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December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Good nonfiction books stand as a testament to the value of curiosity and thinking deeply about our lives, our world, and all the people in it. Here are our favorites of the year.
Electric Lit’s Best Nonfiction of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Edgar Gomez, Maris Kreizman, and Zefyr Lisowski are among the year's most celebrated nonfiction
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"Oslo is Trier and Vogt’s playground, where themes of absent parents, fraught sibling dynamics, and haunted family homes collect and combust in their episodic narratives."

Clara Cuccaro considers the “myth of resistance” in "Sentimental Value." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-more-heroes/
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."

On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Impossible Reconstruction
Objects of Repair installation: Architects for Gaza, British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 There are places where the idea of reconstruction collapses under the weight of repetition. Gaz...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Once you read this, please check out @elizabethalsop.bsky.social on the trauma backstory 📺

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November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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"There is no city, state, or county in America where a two-bedroom apartment is in reach for someone who earns minimum wage and works full time." Zoe Adams reviews Brian Goldstone's book, "There is No Place for Us."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-emergency-born-of-prosperity/
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Angela Flournoy joins the #LARBRadioHour to discuss her new book "The Wilderness," how she developed these characters, how she works with scenes and dialogue, and why she wanted to write about Black female friendship.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/angela-flournoy-the-wilderness/
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Hong Kong diaspora communities are inhibited in accessing their city’s colonial history, I argue in my blog post for @activehist.bsky.social activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...

Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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"'Without Fear' celebrates the activism of Black American women—an 'often-overshadowed group of activists and intellectuals.'" @randybrowne.bsky.social reviews Keisha N. Blain’s “Without Fear.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-the-transnational-activism-of-black-women/
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Yesterday, Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in U.S. history, died at 84.

His legacy: torture, secret prisons, and wars that killed millions.

@alfatau.bsky.social examines the empire he built—and the impunity he enjoyed.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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“Alien: Earth thus banks on a fear not only of invasive Xenomorphs, but of a future that robs children of their innocence, forcing them into adult decisions and bodies.” Tia Glista reviews "Alien: Earth": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-baby-was-screaming/
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
not shown are the 5 new books i held from my library lol
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
october 2025 - reading reflections
i asked myself why he was so unlovable.
room302.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Book Club 📚 In 'Gaza: The Story of a Genocide', co-editors Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro have gathered around twenty writers, poets, journalists, activists, and illustrators to explore the genocide's immeasurable toll at both individual and collective levels 👇
Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro’s anthology of Gaza resistance
Book Club: Sonia Faleiro speaks to us about ’Gaza: The Story of a Genocide,’ a vital anthology blending testimony and art to document Gaza’s ongoing devastation
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October 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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"His scrupulous detailing of hour-to-hour action and the exactitude of his sentences do not open outward but close inward to form a monstrous version of the realistic novel." Tom LeClair reviews Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel “Tom’s Crossing.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/enuf-is-enuf/
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Seeing ghosts, her favourite book quote and being reincarnated as a bandicoot.

We asked Kiran Desai, shortlisted for the #BookerPrize2025 with The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, some quick-fire questions so you can get to know her better.
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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My piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk reflects on the politics of forgetting, detailing how Hong Kong’s displaced colonial archives have exiled memory to the metropole www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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For decades, Black writers have enriched the Booker Library with stories that inspire, challenge and move readers.

This Black History Month, rediscover these voices with a reading list, introduced by Booker Prize 1991 winner, Ben Okri. Find it below...

https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/dba9hahipf
A Booker Prize reading list for Black History Month | The Booker Prizes
Ahead of Black History Month, Ben Okri, the first Black writer to win the Booker, says that the genius of the Black spirit in literature has been set free
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October 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation.

Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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"My cat wasn’t lost but everyone in the neighborhood kept calling me. “I found your cat,” they said, and then they would describe my cat to me."

from "Hurricane Envy" by Sarah Jaffe (published by Rescue Press)

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from "Hurricane Envy" - Cleveland Review of Books
And my kids have food, whatever they want.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn.

Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"The finished product of a close reading exudes confidence, obscuring how much of close reading is uncertainty." @profdgd.bsky.social on "Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-problem-of-the-parlor/
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM