The gravest threat to academia is the transformation of universities into luxury resorts staffed by part-time professors and an expanding fleet of overpaid, rapacious senior bureaucrats. The second gravest threat is people like this, who think our job is political cheerleading.

It's Wednesday. It's SH review day. Here's Tristan Beiter on Maressa Voss's When The Shadows Grow Tall, a fantasy novel that doesn't stand alone, but which with luck heralds a series with potential: "taken as a beginning ... [it] is [...] exhilarating." strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/wh…

*squeak* bowled over by the treatment ye olde book received by Tristan Beiter — second print’ll address that ambiguity (heretofore, a Prequel, in essence Book 1 but I shan’t define it as such due to *publishing politics about which I must be vague*) YES, there will be more books.

always returning to this Layli Long Soldier poem, this way—really, a whole set of ways—of inhabiting grief & struggle

Anne Carson, our queen

If you’re still in line to vote, stay in line. I know some folks have been waiting for a long time, but don’t give up — your vote matters.

How do I get involved with the activist work around book bans and the threats to our public libraries and librarians?

“reading fiction is dissociation—” no. stop pathologizing benign behavior, stop shaming things that are objectively good. you grew up reading because you enjoyed it, because it gave you pleasure. your life was enriched in every way by the books that you read.

“Apophatic” in print, a true love knot of a nonce-sonnet, naughtily knotty vatic verse, notable for its emphatic litany of nots