Next in our Lectures for Peace: Alison Hennegan on Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet?
All income from our Lectures for Peace goes to peace and refugee charities. 7 March live online.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/peace
Launching tomorrow! Visit God's House Tower to see a selection of art by Gerda Cohen 5-8 March. Join us on Friday to hear from curator and Parkes Outreach Fellow Maddie Walch at the Celebration Event!
🔗 godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/memo...
Join us for our upcoming lecture with Parkes Visiting Fellow Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum, who will talk about 'The Schnorrer & the Parvenu: Jews, Tailoring & the Performance of Respectability'.
🗓️ Tues 10 March, 6pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & online
Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-tailo...
Pure joy.
If you have access to BBC radio, don’t miss the reading of Percival Everett’s powerful 2024 novel, James, on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
Prof. Eaglestone is always worth hearing. 😎
The next instalment of #EnglishCreates is all about reading, beginning with @bobeaglestone.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @literacy-trust.bsky.social @rbtownsend.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social
Deadline end of 29th May to submit for our Book Prize!!
'The 2010s is the concluding volume of the Decades Series. Although novels will continue to be written and read in the UK, there are good reasons for thinking that future fiction written in Britain is unlikely to have the same cultural signification within national life as over the past century.'
All seven volumes to date in the #MassObservation Critical Series @massobscritical.bsky.social are also currently at attractive prices in the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social sale until Sunday @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
So interesting working on the series.
AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fantastic news.
The only collection in Bloomsbury’s New Horizons in Contemporary Writing series. Sets the bar really high.
He has many defenders, alas, who ignore or explain away his race-thinking. As with GB Shaw, it was especially extreme in the 1930s.
Berlin, Brussels, Paris & Zurich, see you soon!!
The fight is not over — we still have a lot of work to do. We’re coming to Europe to chat with you about this moment in Israel-Palestine and what we’re doing on the ground to fight for justice, equality and peace.
Registration links 🔗⬇️
Lovely to read this. 😎
What a great project.
Check out our new website!
(Here’s the page for my project: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/projects/... )
I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...
Could Nazi cosplayer and all-round fascist Bovino be an antisemite? If only there had been some kind of sign.
Great you could get there OK. Weather looks extreme.
In amongst the daily whiplash of US events -
Anyone have a source for numbers detained / imprisoned so far - and numbers of people sent to another country?
Vote Mark P.
Mark (left) and Anna (right) in front of the Housmans bookshop, smiling widely.
I am so grateful that Mark Pendleton is running as the next UCU VP (Higher Education). He is a dedicated, strategic, kind, and level headed union organizer; brilliant historian; and a dear friend. He will make a terrific vicepresident; please vote for him, all.
ucucommons.org/about-mark/
Deadline is 6pm today!!
Great, innovative use of KC Works: academic podcasts. Just uploaded: The Literary Encyclopedia Podcast, Episode One, De-cosifying Dickens
works.hcommons.org/records/33yj...
The cover to Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market for Modernism: Fictions of Celebrity. It shows a stylised version of The Thinker statue.
More traditional but rigorous philosophical and close-reading approaches also, of course, welcome!
I second that!
The front cover for Douglas Coupland’s Literature and Art: The Extreme Present. It shows a silhouetted face with colored pixellated blocks in front
If you are considering writing and publishing a book on any aspect of contemporary writing: just a reminder that I am a series editor of the New Horizons in Contemporary Writing series at Bloomsbury. We'd love to have your submissions and books!
