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Sarah E. Bond The splendid Sarah Derbew has a new article in AJP on "From Aksum to Athens." It explores literary understanding of Aksum (modern Ethiopia) via Greek & Ge'ez (ግእዝ, aka Classical Ethiopic): She "examine[s] various descriptions of the 6th-century ce Aksumite ruler Kaleb." muse.jhu.edu/article/1002...
Nancy Pearl Jenny Uglow’s my favorite biographer. Her new book’s a life of Gilbert White, an 18th century British naturalist; out in Dec. ✔️out her earlier works too-they’re all wonderful reads; she’s a fastidious and enthusiastic researcher. #fsgbooks@bsky.social
eileen chengyin chow Another fruitful Regulator Bookshop excursion: I've only just read an ARC of the astounding Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li, but the material book is beautiful and I wanted to cherish it and read it a second time on paper And I’ve been a Jasper Fforde loyalist since The Eyre Affair (2001)!
Neglected Books Ya gotta love the way mass market paperback publishers pumped up the lurid. Maxine Kumin, best known as a poet, opens The Passions of Uxport with the mystic revery of a guy scraping roadkill off a highway. It's quite a good, serious novel—not that the cover gives us any clue. neglectedbooks.com/?...
Rachel Malik Haunted/haunting books for October. Some recommendations, all of which can be read & reread, & are haunting, disorienting & unsettling in the most interesting & pleasurable ways. some are very scary… Not all of these books have ghosts of the conventional kind but who wants ‘ordinary’ ghosts.
British Association for Romantic Studies BARS is pleased to announce the relaunch of its conference and seminar support scheme. Applicants may apply for up to £500 from BARS to support seminar and conference activities. Deadline: 1 November 2026 (further rounds thereafter). www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
Ben Wurgaft something cheerful, thank goodness: the Vietnamese edition of Ways of Eating* is here, and we took it out for a sandwich. * the book on world food history and anthropology I co-wrote with my Mom, Merry White.
Neglected Books In Lydia Chukovskaya's Going Under (1972), a Soviet writer finds that a few weeks at a retreat only bring her closer to painful memories of the years of Stalinist persecution and personal loss. neglectedbooks.com/?...
Ika Willis I’m 1/4 through Chapter 1 of @zephoria.bsky.social’s new ethnography of the US census & I am full-on IN TEARS in my lounge room at 10pm. I’ve aspired to be a “bureaucrat for the revolution” for 25 years & this book is giving my battered old heart words for everything I’ve been striving for
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 Workshop on motherhood in China in anthropological/historical/literary approaches to be held in Paris on 26-28 April 2027. Full CfP: lnkd.in/p/eXUFjSUX
Matthew Cheney Haven't revisited this book in decades. Maybe worth dusting off...