Somehow, it's already October 15 which means there is still a month left to send in your paper and panel proposals to next year's Novel Studies conference. Share widely and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsub…

I reviewed AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor and Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick for Critical AI. Thanks to Dan Sinykin for commissioning and CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ for careful edits and genuine engagement with my views. criticalai.org/2024/10/16/sne…

If you're looking for inspiration for your proposals, check out our keyword seminars which will focus on everything on concepts like decolonization, co-intelligence, and heteroglossia among many others. Deadline is Nov. 15 sites.duke.edu/sns2025/keywor…

MTC November Reading: Percival Everett's 'James.' Discussion led by @farahbakaari & Bekah Waalkes. All are welcome! More information in our website: mid-theory.com/reading/

A superb review, so fair and balanced. Decolonizing the English literary curriculum: edited by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, x+522 pages, £80 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-009-29995-4: Textual Practice: Vol 0, No 0 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Join me and Jesse McCarthy in reading Shirley Hazzard’s THE TRANSIT OF VENUS (1980) at #SNS25. Panel and paper abstracts are due 11/15, but make some time, too, for a novel whose beguiling simplicity rewards slow reading. CFP 👉 sites.duke.edu/sns2025/novel-…

"Democracy, as we now see, is not necessarily a vehicle of rationalizing tendencies in the society - on the contrary, it may well act as an organ of the uninhibited expression of momentary emotional impulses." Karl Mannheim, Essays on the Sociology of Culture, (Germany, 1932)

This was such a great conversation between Kalyan and Jamil Jan Kochai on everything from the concept of serial war to the post-911 novel and Final Fantasy VII. We talk about writing in the second-person, paranoid empires, and why playing video games can improve your craft!

In the next episode of Novel Dialogue, Kalyan Nadiminti speaks with Jamil Jan Kochai about narrative form and the cycles of war, hosted by Aarthi Vadde. buff.ly/4fW75fk

I know what I will be reading over Thanksgiving (even if my table will not be this gorgeous or, upon closer inspection, this weird). Endlessly surprised and impressed by how ⁦Vauhini Vara⁩ threads the needle in her writing about and with new technologies!

A full-draft of my second book finally exists!!!! Let the revisions begin (but not today).

The wait is over! Take a listen as we try to make sense of these senseless times!

In the trailer for Season 9 of our partner podcast Novel Dialogue, Aarthi Vadde looks at the web as the predominant platform of cultural life, and one that needs to be understood in light of literary history. Hosted by Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde. buff.ly/nnrMhv9

Full program for SNS 2025: Novel Languages now available! Come for the terrific panels and seminars and stay for signature novel-inspired cocktails and bookish swag! sites.duke.edu/sns2025/sample…

Amid fears about AI, Aarthi Vadde chats with writer Vauhini Vara about what it really means to put ChatGPT on the printed page and whether generative AI will steal writers’ paychecks, diagnosing a future of writing with less doomsaying than others. buff.ly/UkMOUid