In translation, Can Xue has only been published by small presses and university presses, so you should probably order your books now-ish. Stuff’s gonna sell out instantly when she wins the Nobel in three weeks

”What is it about mimicry that is so dangerous? What is its relationship to the body? And why is the body such a problem for translation?” poetryfoundation.org/articles/16010…

A wonderful new review of PARASITES!

Confirmed, there are pinkertons on campus at Columbia University. They are wearing navy shirts & have entered campus libraries searching around. The pinkertons have a history of counterinsurgency & violently breaking up strikes.

Caricaturing students as a lazy flock of "woke" sheep is not a brave, new, or exciting aesthetic move. Satirizing the type of instructor who indulges in such caricature? That I'd read.

Friends and colleagues, any leads on good historicisations of radical publishing in and beyond UK?

REJECTION is out today bookshop.org/p/books/reject…

Edited by pocothought, this morning we bring you 7 “Keywords for Postcolonial Thought,” by Tanya Agathocleous, Prof.Comfort, Leah Feldman, pocothought, Peter Kalliney, Sarah Quesada, & Sonali Thakkar. post45.org/sections/conte…

In her introduction, pocothought gives us a brief of the collective’s work in developing keywords for postcolonial thought. post45.org/2024/09/introd…

Thrilled to see this cluster out. A glimpse of the conversations at the second symposium of the Association of Postcolonial Thought. Thanks to all the contributors and the Contemporaries @ Post45 team.

I asked a colleague if he could be less condescending and pushy in the emails he sends me (which are usually pleas for my help with something) and he said they were all written by ChatGPT.

"Latin-Africa" as a keyword for postcolonial thought is out! #octavioPaz and #Egypt

Thanks to everyone for your strong response to this essay. If you're interested, this essay is in conversation with Transgressive Circulation, my book from a few years ago (Noemi Press ). Also I am starting a sub stack to follow up on some of the ideas: johannesgransson.substack.com/p/why-do-i-car…

i made this lasagna and it's delicious and also so indulgent it feels like one slice could kill you cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/9530-l…

I guess today is the day we discover if the word “terrorism” has any consistent or coherent meaning

For the New Yorker, I wrote about Charlotte Shane, sex work and hetero-optimism newyorker.com/books/under-re…

is this snake stupid or something

Waiting for someone to write an article about how many academics have turned away from UP monographs to pursue trade books, and how that speaks to the collapse of university humanities, and, finally, how the best trade deals go to those for whom a collapse exits in different 1/2

If this happened to an Israeli child it would be the only story on the news