Rachel Malik

Looking forward to it even more.

Painting of a desert and deserted landscape with industrial vestiges and a house that seems uncanny. A hostile scene for humans.

The lesser evil is in favour of "AI"-based mass surveillance, imports dubious foreign software that is connected to anti-democratic movements abroad and even to genocidal violence, provides diplomatic cover for states that ...

J. Smart, The wasteland II (1945)

Looking forward to this but It’s The Waves!

I wasn’t able to convince @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social that Orlando is the greatest Woolf novel but it was still an enjoyable conversation. Look out for this next @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode towards the end of the week.

Purple background, white text, which says This essay and its sequel trace 120 years... of how women have wielded science fiction to dismantle patriarchy, caste hierarchy, colonial legacies, and capitalist exploitation, often simultaneously, and how they've asked the questions that needed to be asked. "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

Amritesh Mukherjee's two-part history of Indian science fiction makes sharp observations about the themes covered in that fiction, and what impact it can have. Warning: you're likely to come away with a significant reading list...

Read it now for free! www.speculativeinsight.com

I have found it so. First read some of his essays as a student, so long ago. Still reading and thinking about him - a good obsession

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Cover of the Virago Modern Classics paperback edition of Angel by Elizabeth Taylor, with an introduction by Hilary Mantel

Now reading:
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She absolutely does. Angel is so isolated by her eccentricity and her performances. You laugh but it breaks your heart.

Who briefed Kemi to use the same phrase he uses here "we go after the archer not the arrows"? Tories and Reform siding with US against Britain is not a good look.

Lore Segal - BOTD bombmagazine.org/articles/200...

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Joint bequest of Eve Clendenin to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, 1974 Art © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Untitled (Gold Painting) by Robert Rauschenberg, 1948
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MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT by Elizabeth Taylor

Black & white portrait of Elizabeth Taylor

#NYRBWomen26 page guide for MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT by Elizabeth Taylor

Starting book 3 of #NYRBWomen26 today! MRS PALFREY was listed in Robert McCrum's 2015 Guardian list as one of the one hundred best novels in English. I'll be reading one chapter a day. Anyone is welcome to join & feel free to read at whatever pace you wish. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 🧵 (1/3)

Just finishing a reread of A Wreath of Roses. Hoping to join you.

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Mrs. Palfrey...

"Her short fur cape she hung over a chair. It smelled of camphor and animal, as it always had. She decided to wear it down to dinner to create a decisive first impression. On whom, would be discovered, or not discovered."

Little Lazarus by Michael Bible Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill Lili is Crying by Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs) Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (tr. Ros Schwartz) Vaim by Jon Fosse (tr. Damion Searls) Little World by Josephine Rowe Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers Gertrude Stein by Francesca Wade Art Work by Sally Mann

Here are the books I finished in February. I recommitted to reading 1hr each morning before starting work & it was just the reset I needed. Bessette & Sarton were both rereads. 4 are from the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist. I loved the entire stack! #AContinuation #SundaySarton #NYRBWomen26

Black cat with a white (fur) collar sitting on a cross in a summer graveyard.

Late for #Caturday but I just remembered this cat who was both loving the Summer and channelling a witchy vibe.

Red Hands and Cheap Stays: Class in The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West’s first novel The Return of the Soldier was first published in 1918 and has just been republished for the Virago 40 series. At the beginning of the novel, the soldier of the title is inju...

You could also check out my piece on her brilliant novel, The Return of the Soldier.

Georges Perec - BOTD
#Caturday

Thirty seconds of this morning’s great loveliness on my favourite hill — with bursts of western meadowlark song.

WTF more time

Let’s get a blue plaque for Rebecca West. (Why isn’t there one already?)

Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.

I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.

I'd welcome help building a strong application.

Thank you 💙🙏

MEET THE BÀRD: Stu Hennigan | Bard Books We are delighted to be hosting the first London event for Stu Hennigan's hotly tipped debut novel 'Keshed', a brutally poetic examination of class, belonging, masculinity, addiction and fatherhood. St...

Very much looking forward to this in East London on Thursday. Had the pleasure of reading Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social in ms, and its quite something!!. www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

In 1934, Viscount Rothermere was passionate about two things: the Loch Ness Monster and Nazism. It’s what the novel I’m currently hawking around is all about.

NB: advertisers baulked at seeing their own copy alongside puff pieces for the Black Shirts and Rothermere was quickly forced to pipe down.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but me writing 6000 words for Inventory about Julie Covington.

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, arranged diagonally, spines facing outwards.

"The poem moves through the world. The world moves through the poem." Last 2 days for our special offer: any 3 hardbacks for £32. Includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite and more
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Don’t worry, the Daily Mail has lots of helpful advice for them

Black dog sitting on light grey tiles, looking as good as gold and hoping for a snack.

My kitchen shadow

There are just a couple days left to apply to come work with us at the Bookshop.

More details about the position here: www.lrb.co.uk/pages/standa...