Kinohi Nishikawa

Black Studies Is For Everyone This February 27, join us for a daylong gathering of writers, journalists, scholars, and activists to discuss the history, politics and future of Black Studies.

Today (2/27) @princeton.edu: "Black Studies Is for Everyone," a symposium hosted by the Department of African American Studies. Three roundtables: Black studies and higher education, Black arts and culture, and Black politics in the age of backlash 👉 aas.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Today @princeton.edu! A screening of the doc short TESSITURA, on the making and breaking of gender conventions in professional opera. Talkback with co-directors Lydia Cornett and Brit Fryer moderated by Rebekah Peeples. 2/24, 4:30pm, free and open to the public. ihum.princeton.edu/events/voice...

Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork

Utterly chilling, with an outcome that is arguably more devastating than what happened to Andres Serrano's art in the 1980s www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...

Greg Brown, Guitarist Who Wrote Cake’s Biggest Hit, Dies at 56

Greg Brown went the distance with lyrics like these, RIP:

Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse

Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force

In his mind, he’s still driving, still making the grade

She’s hoping in time that her memories will fade

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/a...

The New Fabio Is Claude

“It makes it difficult for newer authors to be discovered, because the swamp is teaming [sic] with crap.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Thursday, 2/12, at 5:00pm @princetonpl.bsky.social: POETICS OF PROPAGATION, a salon co-curated by Kierra Duncan and Nicole-Ann Lobo for the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities @princeton.edu. Hands-on activities + archival exhibition. Come by! It's free and open to the public.

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities Accepting Applications through March 2 — Princeton University Humanities Council Applications for the Council’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) are now open. Graduate students are eligible to apply to IHUM in their third year of graduate study. Students...

Are you a Ph.D. student @princeton.edu working in and across humanistic fields? Apply to the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, a unique fellowship opportunity that facilitates intellectual and practical work outside one's discipline. humanities.princeton.edu/2026/01/21/i...

‘Marty Supreme’ Has a Lot to Say About Being Jewish in America

Couldn’t agree more about how MARTY SUPREME turns the corner on model-minority, pathos-driven art about the ethnic American experience. Great piece of criticism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/m...

See You Later, Claude: San Francisco Mourns Its Beloved Alligator

Uplifting post of the day, with a whimsical headline to boot. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

RIP Carla Freccero, literature professor at the University of California Santa Cruz and pathbreaking scholar of early modern gender and sexuality studies. literature.ucsc.edu/people/in-me...

SUNDAY SCARIES: Fade to Black | Lightbox New Restoration

This was laugh- and groan-out-loud loony: a perfect Sunday afternoon treat. Great cameos from Tim Thomerson as a c*ke-snorting investigator and Mickey Rourke as the bully who bets the main character on his knowledge of CASABLANCA trivia. www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/sunda...

Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running The nearly forgotten Black stars, songwriters and strivers who made Broadway what it is today.

An incredible virtual tour of the New York Public Library's exhibition SYNCOPATED STAGES: BLACK DISRUPTIONS TO THE GREAT WHITE WAY, curated by the late Michael Dinwiddie. Kudos to Jesse Green for capturing the scope and energy of the exhibition in online format. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

E.g. and I.e.: Choosing the Right Abbreviation | MLA Style Center Learn how and when to use e.g. and i.e.

I'm such a nerd for these usage notes from @modernlanguage.bsky.social. Here Laura Kiernan clarifies when to use e.g. and i.e. and whether to use one or the other style.mla.org/eg-and-ie/?u...

Against Babel: Or, How to Talk to Strangers - Public Books Allegedly, some 45% of languages descend from one, ancient ”Proto-Indo-European“ tongue. But why focus on a hypothetical lost language, when we can work instead to hear one another today?

Piercing essay on the history of comparative philology and its universalist presumptions by Aditi Rao: "What exactly are we to do with the spoils of our shared past?... How do we speak together, live together, write together, in Babel’s wake?" www.publicbooks.org/against-babe...

Library puts rare James Baldwin collection on exhibit New York City-based publisher and book collector George Bixby spent a lifetime tracking down the works of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin – ...

Great story about Cornell's acquisition of the George Bixby James Baldwin Collection, facilitated by Type Punch Matrix. I agree with Ph.D. candidate Dominique Joe that there's tremendous value in the collection's ephemera, not just the published work. www.library.cornell.edu/about/news/l...

"(Re)discovering Facsimiles and Forgeries at Williams College," a hands-on workshop and presentation by Anne Peale (Williams College) #BibWeek26 @bibsocamer.bsky.social

"Stalking the Wild Fur Trade: Bibliographic Control of Modern Trapping Literature," co-presented by Nathan E. Bender and Eric Rossborough (Buffalo Bill Center of the West) #BibWeek26 @bibsocamer.bsky.social

"The Case of the Missing Type: Investigating LOGONOMIA ANGLICA (1619)," co-presented by Erika Giddens and Samantha Foster #BibWeek26 @bibsocamer.bsky.social

Gearing up for a quick transatlantic flight to talk about (publishing) pirates and detective fiction! 📚🕵️‍♀️

Love that you’re reading this in hard copy! I print out all PDFs.

Today (1/21) at 2:00pm EST at #BibWeek26: an exhibition tour of SPANISH STYLE: FASHION ILLUMINATED, 1550-1700 at the Hispanic Museum and Library in NYC. Free and open to the public with registration @bibsocamer.bsky.social 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/calen...

Couldn't be more excited for @norabenedict.bsky.social's keynote lecture for @bibsocamer.bsky.social's Annual Meeting Friday (1/23) at Convene, NYC, 3:00pm EST: "Erle Stanley Gardner and the Case of the Mexican Pirates." Free and open to the public with registration 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/calen...

Very excited to attend Jacqueline Goldsby and Meredith L. McGill's Black Bibliography Project conference "Networking Black Print: Reimagining Black Bibliography" at Rutgers, April 9-10. Events free and open to the public with registration 👉 globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/networ...

A great leader for PUL. I've had the privilege of deepening my involvement in different facets of Special Collections during Jarvis's term.

Join @bibsocamer.bsky.social today (1/20) in kicking off #BibWeek26 with the Grolier Club's Rendell Lecture: Glen Miranker on "meaning and magic in handwritten material" -- a talk based on his extensive collection of Sherlock Holmes material. Open to the public 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-an...

Fire of Wind (Fogo do Vento) | Lightbox Philadelphia premiere

Marta Mateus's FIRE OF WIND is a meditative reflection on class struggle as it relates to Portugal's history of dictatorship and revolution. A rare chance to see this beautifully shot, Béla Tarr-paced film @lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/fire-...

This looks great, and I'm shocked I didn't realize these Oxford Bibliographies of American Lit were out there, will definitely be consulting them and recommending to graduate students...

Happy to see my co-written bibliography of Ralph Ellison debut on Oxford Bibliographies Online. Paul Devlin and Diana Filar were ideal collaborators: working across subfields in literary studies brought a unique set of resources together for this project. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Join @bibsocamer.bsky.social today (1/15) at 6:30pm EST for New Scholar Clara Shaw's presentation "Printing for the People: THE NEOLITH, a Lithographic Magazine, 1907-1908." Link 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/calen...