@briankgoodman.bsky.social
Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983373
When I was researching my book in Prague, Ivan Klíma and his wife Helena invited me into their home and talked to me for hours over zázvorová limonáda. Their hospitality was just one reason their apartment was a first stop for visiting US writers like Philip Roth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
This was a great excuse to finally read Riley’s book on Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe, and man is it a useful corrective on civil society, democracy, and authoritarianism (even if I don’t agree with all of it so far)
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New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
“Antipolitics is the ethos of civil society, and civil society is the antithesis of military society.”
-György Konrád
Come hang out at @redemmas.org on Wednesday October 1st!
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Kino Lucerna, Dec. 21, 2013
16.09.2025 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Incredible. Would be so interested to see a deep dive on the period, roughly, between ‘68 and ‘89.
16.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ditto! The dissident intellectual milieu I study was definitely attracted to the failed attempts at "socialism with a human face," but now I'm curious about the extent to which these nineteenth-century antecedents were on their mind (well, aside from Marx, obviously).
10.09.2025 18:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also, since I'm writing about Gyorgy Konrad right now, I guess I'll have to check out Citizen Marx on antipolitics (which I usually associate with 19th-c anarchists like Bakunin rather than the Owenites, etc.)
10.09.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This review made me very curious about what these authors would make of a different liberal socialist tradition from the 20th century: attempts to liberalize state socialism from inside the Eastern bloc (Prague Spring, etc.).
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Thanks for this, @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
New at PB: In conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social, @devoney.bsky.social talks about her new book “Wild for Austen,” covering everything from sexuality, erotica, and love to class, moms, dads, and the power of naughtiness.
www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...
“68 Publishers ‘was far and away the most important of the émigré publishing houses,’ said Derek Sayer. ‘It basically kept Czech literature alive.’ And, Mr. Sayer recalled, Mr. Škvorecký ‘was very insistent’ that ‘[Zdena Salivarová] was the one who kept it going.’”
Unpaywalled: archive.ph/7JJjL
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THE NONCONFORMISTS made the Allen Ginsberg Project's weekly round-up: allenginsberg.org/2025/08/f-a-...
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26.08.2025 21:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(And it’s still funded for next summer!)
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There were no apocalyptic haboobs in Bulgaria this summer. Highly recommend applying to this institute co-sponsored by @acls1919.bsky.social and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.
www.acls.org/news/acls-co...
Love raising resilient kids in Phoenix in 2025.
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(From today’s coincidental reading…)
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We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact.
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...
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Promo vid. Links to other vids in fundraiser page.
youtube.com/shorts/Npmj3...
Pre-order! www.amazon.com/Banning-Book...
03.08.2025 19:13 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1As some of you already know, I'm a part of this year's fellowship cohort, and I'll be headed to Budapest with the whole family in January. If you're interested in applying for the next cycle, I'm happy to chat!
16.07.2025 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An incredible opportunity to think alongside other scholars about an important topic at the Institute for Advanced Study, CEU in Budapest. The next theme will be "Modalities of Resilience and Resistance: Academia and Society in Illiberal Times."
ias.ceu.edu/joint-budape...
"For Your Freedom and Ours," a banner unfurled in Red Square, Moscow, at a 1968 protest against Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia
I wrote something about dissent and the motive for speaking out.
calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-motive...
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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