Today when I walked into class my students starting laughing, because they had just been talking about how every time I enter the classroom I look confused, or surprised to see them there 😂

Rest in Peace Faith Ringgold 🕊️

The full interview between Stuart Hall and CLR James is here and it contains lots of gems: youtu.be/_Gf0KUxgZfI?si…

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Yessss!!!

'This is the first installment of 'Preserving Gaza,' a series of interviews with Palestinian writers and scholars about particular aspects of Gaza’s history, heritage and cultural life, much of which has been destroyed by Israel’s siege and bombardment.' thepointmag.com/dialogue/a-for…

WHAT HAPPENED TO RUTHY RAMIREZ has been longlisted for the the PEN/Faulkner Award! Amazing recognition for my colleague Claire Jimenez.
penfaulkner.org/2024/02/06/ann…

MLA 2025: Work of/in Fiction—collaboration between the Prose Fiction and Marxism/Lit/Society forums, organized by Autumn Womack and myself. Be in touch if you're interested!

“It remains largely unimaginable in English that a Palestinian knows and has known what they are talking about. We are neither prophets nor mad.”

An interview with poet and physician Fady Joudah on writing his latest collection, [...], amid war in Gaza:

bostonreview.net/articles/we-ar…

Impeccable concept and editorial ensemble!

New Oversound, out now. Mauve edition. Brilliant lineup, as ever.

A little essay I wrote for the new issue of PMLA, part of a special cluster on Hernan Diaz's superb novel TRUST:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

'What transpires might be intentional, or it could be inadvertent. And sometimes, the complications are interesting gifts.' —Dineo Seshee Bopape

The artist resurfaces the stories held by the earth's elements.

bombmagazine.org/articles/2023/…

Teju Cole is often compared to W.G. Sebald, and that is indeed apt, but for me the writer his work most powerfully evokes is John Berger. This paragraph from TREMOR, for example—one moment in a longer, luminous reflection on J.M.W. Turner's painting:

RIP to the brilliant and inimitable playwright and artist John Byrne. My brother and I spent an enchanted couple of days at his home in Nairn, in 2006—a wonderful memory that I will always keep close.
theguardian.com/stage/2023/dec…

'If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present.'
-- Anne Boyer

lithub.com/read-anne-boye…

RIP Enrique Dussel, one of the great Marxist critics of colonial rationality, its New World expressions in particular. This book was a revelation for me: