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Animist Poetics

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social

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Animism, in Theory

I wrote this blogpost for @sunypress.bsky.social about the process of writing my book, Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is out now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/An...

Can’t not be excited about a COVER! An “if you know you know” kind of design, and otherwise, elegant suggestion. So grateful yet again to the talented team at @princetonupress.bsky.social.

Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!

to cherish cuteness is to honor the most gentle part of your being a plush rabbit next to a real one

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Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Relearning the Colonizer’s Language Moving to Paris made my cheeks hurt. After a decade since I’d last worked in France, I found myself back in the land of one of my ancestors’ other colonizers. My Broca’s area could still conjure th…

“I wasn’t in Paris to avenge my postcolonial trauma but that wasn’t NOT on the table, either.” Benedict Nguyen on (re)learning the colonizer’s language.

Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint The award-winning author of “The Friend” explains why some of the recent books that she admires most are ones in which not much happens.

Sigrid Nunez, a writer I have admired and whose books I've loved for a long time, has included my novel in her New Yorker list of recommendations and now I want to read every one of them.

Anne Enright · I stab and stab: Helen Garner’s Diaries The diaries filled me with nostalgia for all the bollocks we had to listen to back in the day; the interminable wrangle...

‘This is Helen Garner! A woman fluent in French, who compares translations of Rilke for fun. Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman.’

Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on the Australian novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’

Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

In his 1962 essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” James Baldwin dissects the mentality of white Americans: “not only overt racists but the sort likely to be well-meaning readers of The New Yorker,” Kevin Young writes.

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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
— the Creature in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

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Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅

@halfbook.bsky.social omg! I was thinking about you recently! Catch up soon xxx

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Bridget Jones Isn’t a Postfeminist Relic How the beloved British diarist outlasted her critics

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" retains romantic-comedy tropes but finds surprising depth in a devastating plot twist, Sophie Gilbert writes.

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Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster I’ve known Lauren Markham’s writing since her first book, The Faraway Brothers, came out in 2017. Then, a couple years ago, I got to know her a bit more as a person when a friend emailed the two of…

@sarahviren.bsky.social talks to @laurenmarkham.bsky.social: “It is now clear to me that ‘what is the power of words?’ is not an answerable question, or if it is, its answer isn’t static.”