Sophie Ratcliffe

Also, The Hours?

It’s based on Carol Shields’ novel Mary Swann / and it’s about a book that gradually disappears

Swann?

Dear lovely people who know things. I seem to remember I've read some books or articles on this and it's probably super obvious - looking for (literary critically or philosophically inflected) reading on 'the present' (maybe particularly in relation to the historical novel) but also generally.

IT WAS. Thank you thank you! Hugely appreciated. With thanks and admiration to you, and to @meganlcook.bsky.social

A few weeks ago I think there was a conversation here about reading/teaching in Universities. The idea of making space to read. I think someone shared an amazing syllabus about reading (on dropbox?), which mentioned Calvino and surface reading. I've lost the link. Anyone out there/here remember it?

@melpryorpoetry.bsky.social I loved your recent posting of Sam’s poem ‘A Redbreast Flew..’ from ‘New Light’ (2010) - which is such a cracking volume. Do you know what happened to him, or where he is now?

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears.

Here is our call for papers -- cut up.

Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

“i am running into a new year” by Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me

Lucille Clifton, always.

#202: Philippe Sands, author and lawyer — Always Take Notes In this episode Simon and Rachel speak to the author and lawyer Philippe Sands . He is the author of books including " East West Street ", which won the Baillie Gifford prize ...

A new conversation on Always Take Notes podcast .... www.alwaystakenotes.com/episodes/202...

Lynn Somers (@drlynnsomers.bsky.social) Art historian/modern & contemporary sculpture/psychoanalysis/object relations/aesthetics/disabled yogi/Frenchie mom/she-her pronouns

Another of my bookmarks from the other place was for this great looking book by @drlynnsomers.bsky.social about one of my favourite artist-makers

“Parallel Tracks”: Sophie Ratcliffe on Academia, Memoirs, and Motherhood “I used to want to experience everything. I don’t anymore.”

So delighted and fortunate to have had this conversation with the brilliant @njdames.bsky.social - just published today. Would love to hear further thoughts/continue the conversation here… www.publicbooks.org/parallel-tra...

Sudden flashback. Aged 7, was cast in school nativity-fringe as a maidamilking. Spent ages in run up trying to overcome my resentment (at not being Gabriel) & trying to figure out how to make the most of my 5 secs of assembly fame, how to milk my imaginary cow with flair & grace..plus ca change

D-Day 80th Anniversary: Time is all I lacked In the week of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, academics from across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are providing a series of opinion pieces from different disciplinar...

Another of my bookmarks from the other place - this piece by @timkendall70.bsky.social about Keith Douglas news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Flyer for Pits and Perverts featuring Bronski Beat and guests. Flyer is black and white with a picture of a miner against a background of a Union Jack flag.

40 years ago:
Pits and Perverts was a fundraiser for Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.
The Bronski Beat gig raised £5000.
It helped build relationships between Unions and #LGBTQ communities, united by the common enemy of Thatcher’s Government, leading to Union support for pro-gay policies.

Love it. I was introduced to this gorgeous cartoon by @andrewschuman.bsky.social and it provided the start of this piece on Adam Phillips. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/3841...

Sylvia Beach Publishing Ulysses Sylvia Beach, the woman responsible for publishing one of the most important pieces of modernist literature 'Ulysses' by James Joyce.

Here's another from my bookmarks - haven't listened to it yet but looks rather wonderful www.rte.ie/archives/202...

Ushering in another December - with Housman

I love I Capture The Castle so much. An extraordinary book about grief, I think - and included it in this fivebooks.com/best-books/g...

‘The Small-Girl’s Proust’ | Anna Leszkiewicz One of the worst moments of Dodie Smith’s life was when her debut novel became a bestseller. It was 1948, she was fifty-two, and I Capture the Castle, her

Thinking that the way to start, maybe, is to begin by making a record of interesting things found in the other place that I’ve bookmarked over the years..the first is this article from Nyrob about Dodie Smith’s ICTC - discovered thanks to @sarramanning.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...