Using this to say that if you’ve never read The @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social imprint of The Gate you are missing out on a) one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature and b) one of the great acts of literary translation, by William F. Sibley.
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025 Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE CONTRIBUTORS Shinjini Chattopadhyay Joshua Brorby Tim Clarke Yasmin Akhter Chandrica Barua Philip Tsang Stefano Evangelista Bassam Sidiki Caylee Weintraub Giles Whiteley Tom Crewe Kate Hext Megan Girdwood Neil Sammells
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
Photo of the house, which is concrete - so much concrete - with just 5 small, narrow windows facing the street.
Quick - look under your sofa cushions! We can buy David Lynch’s 10 bedroom, 11 bathroom compound for $15 million.
(Yes, it is the house from Lost Highway.)
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Very sorry to read this. When I was young and green he took me under his wing on a trip to James Ensor's house in Ostend. We looked at the weird masks, the mermaids made from monkeys, and realised Ensor was just painting what he saw. A suitably Hitchcockian moment. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
Mute and block with alacrity, retweet beautiful images, recommend good things, post dog and cat pics, and and regularly remind people that I have no interest in any "heated exchange of opinions in the marketplace of ideas".
Well obviously there are thousands of "B&W Movies that are not boring" but for the sake of the meme:
A Colt Is My Passport
Letter Never Sent
The Sweet Smell Of Success
L'Atalante
“We need to think about research training – in particular, PhD training and training down to master’s level. If we look back 10 to 15 years, to the time when the [UK] business department’s budgets were a bit more flush, we saw a lot of investment in doctoral training programmes".
... until Stockton Rush
"leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to market forces undermines resilient subject provision and economic strategy, with lasting consequences for students and for universities’ ability to serve a public good.” 2/2
Happy Birthday to the man with the brass neck to release a succession of EPs and finally an album of French songs entitled…
Francis Bacon, by John Deakin for Vogue, 1952
via Tui Sankamol
Keen to reach new audiences? We are offering up to £8k to humanities and social sciences researchers to deliver public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum. Deadline 15th Oct
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
I sat across the deposition table from Ghislaine Maxwell when she lied repeatedly – one question after the next. We have witnessed that again with the release of Maxwell’s interview where this convicted felon repeatedly and brazenly lied on the record to the government. Maxwell ruined countless young lives with impunity for too long. Her effort to recreate history and distance herself from Epstein should not and will not be tolerated. The documents don’t lie, the multiple witnesses that testified against her at trial didn’t lie – the only person lying is Maxwell.
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.”
Full statement
Belgian Symbolism expo at Maison Hannon in Saint-Gilles! Brussels 29/8/25 to 19/04/26. I have walked past this beautiful building many, many times - but never been inside. maisonhannon.be/fr/evenement...
News from Suffolk demonstrates what's happening across the university sector far beyond redundancies - massive amounts of part-timing, downshifting and sideways movements. All of this will have a deep effect on quality. Not picking on Suffolk at all btw, it's a massive success story.
Today's university making redundancies is Suffolk, following news from Cranfield, Dundee (again) and Bournemouth in recent days. We're *still* running at nearly one a day, deep in the August hibernation period. When will someone step in and stop the madness? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Terence Stamp in Toby Dammit (1968), directed by Federico Fellini.
RIP Terence Stamp
"The Devil is cheerful, agile. He looks like a little girl."
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Terence Stamp was Angel and Devil on screen. Interviewing him was a wicked pleasure. But seeing him around town, on the bus with his Eric Morecambe flat cap, sitting at the old heel bar at Piccadilly, was best of all. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
Today's university with the redundancies is (unsurprisingly) yet again Dundee, after Bournemouth yesterday and Cranfield the day before that. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
This anon piece is as good as people are saying, but I'll summarise here for those of you interested in Higher Education but with no time:
*Universities are not in the public sector
*Govts are a minority funder, and matter less and less. (1/4)
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
