Totally in love with the cover for the Turkish translation of A HISTORY OF WATER, forthcoming from Selenge Yayınları and translator Kadir Annak -- thanks to them and Blake Friedmann Literary Agency for bringing the book to a new audience

Happy pub day to Laura Spinney, whose epic & magisterial PROTO is out today. It’s chock-full of riddles & ingenious solutions, & I loved learning about the ruki rule, the ‘open-syllable conspiracy’, taboo deformation, proto-indo-European chupacabras, & so much else. Go buy, go read!

Anyone in London next Monday evening, do come along and join in the conversation with me and Helen Castor at Hatchards -- tickets through the link below. I for one wouldn't want to be anywhere else! …WilsonLeeatHatchards.eventbrite.co.uk

We are so excited that Edward Wilson-Lee, author of THE GRAMMAR OF ANGELS, is speaking with Helen Castor on Monday evening at Hatchards Piccadilly 👼🗣️ Check out tickets below: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-magical-…

This is tomorrow, and there are still tickets available, so please do come, RT, spread the word to those you think might be interested.

THE GRAMMAR OF ANGELS is one of the most extraordinary books I’ve read in years - beautiful, lucid, and mind-expanding. Come and hear Edward tell the remarkable story of Pico della Mirandola and find out what I think he has in common with Lady Gaga…

Looking for an interpreter from Kannada into English for late May in the UK. Can anyone help or advise? ⁦The Booker Prizes⁩ #kannada #interpreting x.com/fiammettarocco…

I interviewed the brilliant Edward Wilson-Lee about his new book The Grammar of Angels. We explore the life of Renaissance occult philosopher Pico della Mirandola, and also the book's wider interest in magical language, the sublime, and the limits of individualism. Link follows…

Many thanks to Mathew Lyons for the acute reading of the book and the excellent questions! See link to the interview below

Many thanks to the brilliant Edward Wilson-Lee for answering my questions about his latest book, The Grammar of Angels. So many thoughtful and incisive answers! Link in next tweet

Join us for 'European Magic and its Traditions - Islamic Magic'. Charles Burnett (Warburg) in conversation with Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U. of South Carolina) and Michael Noble (University of Exeter). 20 May 2025, 5:30 - 7pm | Online Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/europea… #Magic

For a story: if you're an academic in the US (or less likely to head to work there), and would consider being lured to teach in an Irish university instead, could I or another reporter chat with you? 🙏 (If it makes a difference, today the weather's fab) theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Always so wonderful to see readers engaging so deeply with books. Thank you Annie for reading and for this response.

'Pico was precocious – though, as a fabulously wealthy younger son of the princely house of Mirandola, near Modena, he could afford to be.' Oren Margolis on a Renaissance philosopher who rejected reason the-tls.co.uk/history/early-…

My students have recently and regularly started to use 'overwhelm' as a noun. Can anyone tell me why?

My review of a really fascinating book about a less well known Renaissance genius and the quest for the Sublime in speech. Edward Wilson-Lee

Grateful to simon evans for this review, and for being provoked to think about the contagiousness of laughter alongside the sublime (on which I need to go back to Kundera on the laughter of angels and devils...). Also chuffed at the response to the audiobook.

'European “victories” were often only victories by their own definition.' Edward Wilson-Lee (Edward Wilson-Lee) on the recklessness of early European voyaging the-tls.com/history/early-…