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What if? A response to Walter Benn Michaels What if Michaels, in some small part of himself and irrespective of what he maintains on the page, believes that this forty-year scholarly project might equally have been pursued not in the directi…

From NOVEL's own, Tim Bewes, over at nonsite.

nonsite.org/what-if-a-re...

06.02.2026 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by d 1 hour of chill aphex twin songs (432hz)

check out collected ambient works vols 1 and 2; remixes for cash; richard d james; drukqs—or just start with sthing like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGwU...

29.01.2026 23:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Out now in NOVEL 58.2.

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Out now in NOV 58.2!

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More from NOVEL 58.2. Brian Reinken discusses the implications of the fossil hunt in fiction.

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"Let no one ignorant of Division 1 College Football Enter Here!"

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Welch on Conrad, Ngũgĩ, and the Global Historical Novel.

07.01.2026 11:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Out over on @dukepress.bsky.social

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Novel 58.2 is now live!

05.01.2026 09:26 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

From the new issue of MFS: Jack Quirk's "Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius" is free to read, #S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social! What are you waiting for?

muse.jhu.edu/article/977805

16.12.2025 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

European Journal of English Studies The Place of Race in Law & Literature; Guest Editors: Andrew Bricker, Cedric Essi and Elise Wang. Volume 29, Issue 1 of European Journal of English Studies

just out: The Place of Race in Law & Literature; Guest Editors: Andrew Bricker, Cedric Essi & @elisewang.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/2... w essays by Almas Khan, Emma Brush, @jackquirk.bsky.social, Faith Barter, more! @lpcprof.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social

15.12.2025 21:18 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

My latest piece "Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius" has just been published in MFS' latest issue. Thanks to @moniquerooney.bsky.social, @tynedaile.bsky.social and those at CALC for letting me present an earlier version of this piece. Check it out over here: muse.jhu.edu/article/977805

15.12.2025 17:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Thanks, SImon!

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Nuevas Poligrafias Numero 12

proofs! HACIA LA NOVELA CRITICA

the first Spanish translation of a big piece, coming soon, thanks to the careful smarts of @pavelandrade.bsky.social !

19.11.2025 19:31 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFw...

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.

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Fosse translates Murnane's The Plains.

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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 — 👍 31 🔁 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.

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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!

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thank you for the helpful revisions!

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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 — 👍 420 🔁 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 — 👍 4 🔁 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 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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