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YouTube video by Arts & Social Sciences at ANU Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius

Apropos of nothing whatsoever, I'm posting my talk from last month on "Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius." Thanks very much to ANU Center for Australian Literary Cultures (@calc-anu.bsky.social, @moniquerooney.bsky.social, @tynedaile.bsky.social) for having me!

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08.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

There are more fictional Australian Country Towns With A Secret than there are actual living Australians.

21.09.2025 11:42 — 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Fosse translates Murnane's The Plains.

10.09.2025 21:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ep. 25 Meanjin Streets ft. Eli McLean on the untimely murder of Meanjin

"I don't believe for one second that Meanjin's financial solvency was the reason for the shutdown". Meanjin's ex-deputy editor speaks about the demise of the journal on The Battler podcast (interview starts around the 55-minute mark). thebattler.substack.com/p/ep-25-mean...

10.09.2025 09:49 — 👍 32 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Looking for a place to start with Murnane's work? You could do worse than LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE. Phenomenal work. Each chapter is authored by the narrator of the previous. The entire work folds in on itself.
www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...

02.09.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of my many TBR projects. Three mystery novels written in Nigerian pidgin by Adaora Lily Ulasi and published by Fontana in the 1970s. I'm intrigued because Ulasi 's work seems to have been completely forgotten.

28.08.2025 19:18 — 👍 57 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 3

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

18.08.2025 14:19 — 👍 13 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 3

thank you for the helpful revisions!

18.08.2025 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Colour bar forms in Sam Selvon’s Windrush novels In this essay I discuss two novels by Trinidadian Sam Selvon – The Lonely Londoners (1956) and The Housing Lark (1965) – which together I call Selvon’s Windrush novels on account of their shared co...

For those interested in Sam Selvon, I've just published a piece in EJES for a special issue on "The Place of Race in Law and Literature," edited by @elisewang.bsky.social, Andrew Bricker, and Cedric Essi. Check it out over here: doi.org/10.1080/1382...

18.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

You should put two spaces after a period when:
- Writing a fax to your travel agent
- Penning a eulogy for your uncle who just died of "confumption"
- Addressing the constable or lorde of the duchy

07.07.2025 01:04 — 👍 422 🔁 55 💬 13 📌 8

Job Posting: Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program Seeks Applications for an Assistant Professor of Law and History We have the following job posting: The Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) PhD Program in the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley invites entry-level and early-career lateral applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position focused on law and history. We seek applications from scholars whose primary research focus is law and history in the United States, and also from those engaged in comparative analysis in which American law and history is a component. We seek a scholar versed in qualitative and/or quantitative research methods and theories, and ready to enter into the intellectual life of a unique multidisciplinary PhD Program. Within the broad ambit of law and history our search is open as to the field and/or period of specialization. However, we are particularly interested in candidates whose research relates to race and inequality. The JSP Program attracts a diverse student body with a variety of experiences before graduate school. The JSP Program is committed to methodological pluralism and encourages scholars who are willing and able to mentor graduate and undergraduate students whose research uses a range of methods. JSP faculty members also teach in Berkeley’s interdisciplinary undergraduate Legal Studies major, which operates under the auspices of JSP. The JSP Program is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit: http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty. The law school strives to educate responsible, effective, and forward-thinking advocates who serve the public through legal practice, public policy, academic scholarship, and related fields. In doing so, the school addresses some of society’s most pressing challenges by leveraging its strengths in teaching and research to improve law, policy, and public institutions. At the heart of Berkeley Law’s public mission is a commitment to access, affordability, and empowering students from all backgrounds to pursue impactful careers across a wide range of professional paths. For more information, please visit: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/public-mission/. Read on here. -- Karen Tani

03.07.2025 19:17 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

In the Führerbunker with Carlyle and Yarvin Curtis Yarvin—and, through him, arguably, Thomas Carlyle—has now emerged as a significant source of ideas for the present administration.

New at PB: @ivan812.bsky.social unravels the troubling Thomas Carlyle-to-Curtis Yarvin-to-JD Vance intellectual pipeline. "Sometimes the Fascist jackboot," Kreilkamp writes, "just slides right onto the foot."

03.07.2025 17:18 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Book cover of Realism and the Novel: A Global History, edited by Paul Stasi on Cambridge University Press.

Looking forward to this new collection, Realism and the Novel: A Global History, edited by Paul Stasi and out on Cambridge UP. Looks like it'll be an invaluable resource!

Read an excerpt from the intro here: assets.cambridge.org/97810092/968...

02.07.2025 15:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Writing Australia: can the new national literature body make a real difference for authors? | Esther Anatolitis Supporting writers is nation-building work, and expectations are high for the new body with its re-inaugurated poet laureate

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

01.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We've just received the first issue of the year, number 58.1. It should be available online soon. Fantastic articles by Marta Figlerowicz, Peter Sloane, Kelly Yin Nga Tse, Deirdre Canavan, Liam Kruger, and Priya Joshi!

24.06.2025 22:14 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Why this year's Miles Franklin shortlist is the most 'radical' yet ABC experts unpack the shortlist of Australia's biggest book prize: who made it, who missed out and who they think will win.

For those interested in Aus Lit, de Krester, Brian Castro, and some other great names here!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

26.06.2025 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Book reviews by Richard Godden, Marian Eide, Paul Stasi, Bruce Robins, Justin Mitchell, and Tom Perrin!

24.06.2025 22:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Cover of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing: A Novel

currently reading!

26.06.2025 10:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What are you reading at the moment?

22.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

06.02.2025 03:59 — 👍 11682 🔁 2315 💬 145 📌 110

MUD Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced | Books+Publishing Purchase a subscription to view job ads and other premium content on Books+Publishing.

For those interested in new Aus lit, 2025 MUD Literary Prize shortlist announced:

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

04.02.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Project MUSE - <i>Caelum Nullius:</i> Outer Space and the Colonial Logic of Property Rights

Caelum Nullius (Sky/heaven belonging to no one): Worth checking out for those interested in neocolonialism.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

04.02.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Story of Advice One is encouraged to curate—if not outright fabricate—details from one’s personal life to present to the market.

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30.01.2025 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons The Debian Publicity Team is stepping away from X/Twitter, citing concerns over values and diversity.

good stuff from debian devs.

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30.01.2025 19:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nuclear winter over who's the first to make 20% better automated spam is a fitting way for this civilization to end.

27.01.2025 20:25 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

If I were a LLM this would be the story of my life.

27.01.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's silly but it looks fantastic.

26.01.2025 07:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very pleased to be included in the new Elgar Concise Encyclopedia on Law and Lit with an entry on 'Postcolonial Studies.'

Many great contributions here. An invaluable reference for those working in the area.

Thanks to Simon Stern (@simon8.bsky.social) and Robert Spoo for putting it together!

22.01.2025 13:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Immigration Policy Tracking Project A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

19.01.2025 02:45 — 👍 1079 🔁 627 💬 66 📌 35

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