How do crises shape rights? What foundations guide the interpretation of the ECHR, in a crisis and otherwise? And how do allegations of 'judicial activism' and the Court's tools of deference hold up under these accounts? That and more, out now in #HRLR: academic.oup.com/hrlr/article/2…

Ha! Great to see Devyani Prabhat, Faith Gordon and myself feature on page 10 of the catalogue! TMC Asser Instituut

Discount code flyer and description for my new Elgar Law book Children’s Rights, ‘Foreign Fighters’, Counter-Terrorism with Rumyana van Ark Faith Gordon Do pre-order or,(better for the pocket), ask your library to order!

Look what’s landed in time for the new academic year! Thank you Elgar Law team for the excellent publishing experience for all of us Rumyana van Ark Faith Gordon

Great that the introduction is available to access free here thanks to Elgar Law Check it out! elgaronline.com/monobook/book/… Rumyana van Ark Devyani Prabhat

📚Book news: “Children’s Rights, ‘Foreign Fighters’, Counter-Terrorism” by Devyani Prabhat Devyani Prabhat, Rumyana van Ark Rumyana van Ark & Faith Gordon Faith Gordon (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024) Find out more: bit.ly/4gmDCMM 🔗 Elgar Law Bristol Centre for International Law

Eastern Europeans can't catch a break. For the record, we can write other types of fiction, too. Obscure, genius, flat, moralizing, preachy, sappy, masterpiece, history, revisionist, we have it all. I promise.

So, 24 hours later, I've received a few requests for recommendations. So, here goes nothing. 'Eastern European' books for the masses: Coming v soon from Riverhead Books in the US & Fitzcarraldo Editions, my all-time-favorite Olga Tokarczuk with another badass literary mystery 1/

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions One of my all-time favorite novels, Oksana Zabuzhko's The Museum of Abandoned secrets is a treat for the 'lit sis' club, if such existed (but really, cool people read everything regardless of labels, right?). Massive, tender, literary, key to understanding #Ukraine today 2/

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Everyone knows Georgi Gospodinov's last year International Booker winner Time Shelter, but my favorite novel by him is Physics of Sorrow, with a beautiful new editions from Liveright Books & Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Borgesian, funny, full of myth and original as hell. 3/

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgi Gospodinov Liveright Books Want Eastern European lit fun? Here's some for you. There's a wealth of writers from that corner of Europe who are subverting Anglophone realism and giving it tremendous depth, without the protestant preachy overtones. Check it out. You may love it. 4/

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgi Gospodinov Liveright Books Want non-fiction, politics, and pain? Got you covered. Brilliant Margo Rejmer's Mud Sweeter than Honey by Restless Books is journalistic prose of rare quality. Useful for anyone tempted by dictatorship and simplistic solutions, on any side. 5/

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgi Gospodinov Liveright Books Restless Books Want poetry? Check out these two magical poets I met this year at the European Writers' Festival festival - Iryna Shuvalova (Ukraine) & Kristiina Ehin (Estonia). When these two read poetry, you shiver and cry. Also, Kristiina is a nymph from a magical island. Seriously. 6/

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgi Gospodinov Liveright Books Restless Books European Writers' Festival I can go on forever, regardless of what your genre preferences are. I guarantee you that, as an English speaker, a whole world of non-anglocentric fiction awaits out there, even in Eastern Europe, & it's not complex, pretentious, or, (no!), unrelatable. new-east-archive.org/features/show/… 7/

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgi Gospodinov Liveright Books Restless Books European Writers' Festival & if you're an editor, please stop w/t these headlines on world literature(s). Just because something hasn't been written in a workshop or by an English speaker, doesn't make it strange/difficult. It makes it... literally the rest of fiction. 8/ emerging-europe.com/culture-travel…

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgi Gospodinov Liveright Books Restless Books European Writers' Festival There are literally so many more titles. And they don't all deal with the local. And if they do deal with the local, they remind us that in really, really good fiction, the local is universal. Something which lots of people seem to forget nowadays. 9/ airshipdaily.com/blog/the-ten-b…

Riverhead Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgi Gospodinov Liveright Books Restless Books European Writers' Festival Reading world literature isn't an exotic endeavor. It isn't tokenism. It isn't an elitist pastime. It isn't something to be fetishized or avoided at all costs. It isn't a moral crusade. It is reading, the way it should be: diverse, polyphonic, and borderless. (ffs) 10/

Nailing it on the head. Grad students regularly ask what they can do to “get ahead.” My response is always: read deeply and broadly; it’s your base for any contribution you wish to make. Most of them give me blank stares.

Delighted that Joanna Elmy will soon be read in ten more languages ❤️ what a treat

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