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This will be live-streamed at 6pm (Italian time) today. All welcome! instagram.com/civitellaranie… Civitella Ranieri

I like this thinking, by Richard Strier, about the present and near-future of close reading. (From Strier, ‘New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn’)

Something laughable... next Tuesday, 10th Sept, 8:30 UK time, on Zoom... ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-event…

Question: there’s a lot of interesting writing about laughter, but who writes well about the smile?

Remembering Louise❤️

Peter Gizzi to read at Keble on 22nd October! More info here. Please spread the word: keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-resea… Keble College, Oxford Faculty of English

The most comprehensive account of the Grenfell Inquiry. Unwavering in its precise detail & its anger. There are few (if any) better writers around than James B The fire was a disaster for which people are responsible. This account is extraordinary lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

With many thanks to London Review of Books... Hardy's Bad Behaviour... lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Our new issue, 46.19, is now online, featuring: James Butler (James B) on the Grenfell inquiry Terry Eagleton salutes Fredric Jameson Katherine Harloe on classics beyond Balliol Matthew Bevis on Thomas Hardy Jonathan Rée on Derrida Read now at lrb.co.uk

We were so delighted to be able to support this prize in memory of our much loved and much missed founder Kathryn Bevis. Congratulations to Jenny who produced an amazing winning poem. Bravo too to all the other poets who read so beautifully today. Winchester Poetry

What a day at #TechMGCL! We met legends like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. "This was my best chess moment," said one starstruck CRS student! ⭐️♟️

I'm so excited that Johanna Winant will be coming to USC next Wednesday to talk about her forthcoming book, Lyric Logic! I hope all my South Carolina people will show up for an amazing conversation.

⚡️Oxford Academic has made Part I of my new Sacrifice and Modern War Writing monograph freely accessible for a month ⚡️ Part I is on 'Atavisms: Reprising Ancient Sacrifice in Modern War, from Abraham and Isaac to Moloch'. Here's the link: academic.oup.com/book/57966/cha…

Issue 46.20 is now online, featuring: Adam Shatz on Israel and Lebanon Neal Ascherson on Claud Cockburn’s journalism Bee Wilson on a 19th-century abortionist Sheila Fitzpatrick on Soviet dissidents and a cover by Naomi Frears. Read online now at lrb.co.uk

Next week -- Tuesday 22nd October, 6pm, Keble – A Reading by Peter Gizzi. All welcome, free entry, no booking required. keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-resea…

Next week - Weds 23rd October, 4.30pm, Keble – Adam Phillips, The Poet’s Essay – on William Carlos Williams. All welcome, free entry, no booking required. keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-resea…

got to write about a poem I love, for Annulet. a big honour, and many thanks especially to Alicia Wright, an editor of curatorial and moral strength: annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Ben-Philipps-O…

T J Clark on Poetry and Painting in a few weeks keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-resea… and then Rae Armantrout and Fred Moten lined up to read in the new year … keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-resea… Keble College, Oxford Faculty of English

Very grateful to have been given the opportunity to write about the wonderful James Longenbach for Raritan Quarterly raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue Raritan has also generously made available all Jim's pieces for the journal here: raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/all-listings/l…