Roger Luckhurst
@theprofrog.bsky.social
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).
Professorial book chat about mainstream contemporary literary fiction
January 26, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Professorial book chat about mainstream contemporary literary fiction
Live feed from Davos
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Live feed from Davos
Soundtrack forJanuary
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Soundtrack forJanuary
i.m. my mother Sally Luckhurst, who would have been 94 today, but who took her own life aged 58, on the day Margaret Thatcher resigned in 1990 — beat that for a juxtaposition. I am always slightly haunted by her lack of digital trace, so here’s one of the few photos I have from happier days, c.1958
January 17, 2026 at 12:02 PM
i.m. my mother Sally Luckhurst, who would have been 94 today, but who took her own life aged 58, on the day Margaret Thatcher resigned in 1990 — beat that for a juxtaposition. I am always slightly haunted by her lack of digital trace, so here’s one of the few photos I have from happier days, c.1958
Always great to see one French writer being really bitchy about another French writer!
January 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Always great to see one French writer being really bitchy about another French writer!
We apologise for the disruption to the usual Monday morning emergency fluffy kitten service
January 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM
We apologise for the disruption to the usual Monday morning emergency fluffy kitten service
Alarming email for a professor to receive
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Alarming email for a professor to receive
Monday morning emergency fluffy kitten
January 5, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Monday morning emergency fluffy kitten
Nice pairing, just spotted in Daunt Books, Marylebone
December 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Nice pairing, just spotted in Daunt Books, Marylebone
My annual reminder of the structural inequalities of capitalist modernity
December 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My annual reminder of the structural inequalities of capitalist modernity
Gotta Christmas light?
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Gotta Christmas light?
My book of the year (so far!)
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My book of the year (so far!)
Nice cozy Christmas chat about atrocity then!
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Nice cozy Christmas chat about atrocity then!
Monday: double emergency fluffy kitten
December 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Monday: double emergency fluffy kitten
finally, my time has come. KILL THEM ALL.
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
finally, my time has come. KILL THEM ALL.
Nearly there, but here’s a Friday mid-morning emergency fluffy kitten just in case.
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Nearly there, but here’s a Friday mid-morning emergency fluffy kitten just in case.
Somehow I think this board game I’ve been randomly sent is not going to take off this Xmas
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Somehow I think this board game I’ve been randomly sent is not going to take off this Xmas
Here is your Wednesday lunchtime/shouty budget emergency fluffy kitten
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Here is your Wednesday lunchtime/shouty budget emergency fluffy kitten
Proof that campuses continue to be radically divided, even as holiday season approaches
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Proof that campuses continue to be radically divided, even as holiday season approaches