Your periodic reminder that there exists a fabulous, regularly updated, list of independent bookshops in India.

“There is something hollow about the reproduction of the self.” Nobody but Sofia Samatar could so gently - but so devastatingly - skewer contemporary SFF’s obsession with identity, at its shallowest level.

Applications are still open for the **Colonial Legacies in Public Law** masterclass w/Prof. Philipp Dann. Deadline is 20th September. UKCLA CLT Centre for Law & Social Change SLSA The SLS

Reminder that the Security Council voted to condemn Hamas for the 10/7 attacks and call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages on 10/18. The resolution was vetoed by the United States because it also called for "humanitarian pauses."

A few hours late, but here is the first September issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-wo… feat. books about Russian avant-garde artists and the Chinese revolution, new (and old) Sofia Samatar, the Paris Commune, and a lot more.

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“Only with fragments can you make a universe; this is what we call worldbuilding.” - Sofia Samatar

What a beautiful idea for a collaboration! Anyone else want to buy some books from us for Refaat Mobile Library - Atlanta? You’ll be directly supporting a family in GZ while also helping to build up a beautiful grassroots project that gives local communities in Atlanta access to Palestinian lit!

New blog post: Bulldozers, Demolitions, and the False Promise of “Guidelines” -- indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/bul…

Replugging: on the unconstitutionality of the Assembly and Demonstration Bill: indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/the…

Beautiful. Everyone should read Ghassan Kanafani youtube.com/watch?v=-ThCEz…

The burning of the library of Alexandria.

Gallant, who has some tactical differences with Netanyahu on Gaza but fully supports and plays a central role in enacting the genocide, describes the siege in the West Bank as “mowing the lawn.”

This was quite a book.

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is out now, wherever books are sold!* *LMK if you have trouble finding it!

This is a clear and principled response to what was/is a complete overreach by the Delhi HC.