Tim Beasley-Murray

Just sent you an email, Andrew.

Hi Andrew. Glad you are interested. I'll send you a message, if that's OK.

If you are in St Andrews 25 Feb and want to know more about Critical Games (and what it is that we are risking when we write), please come along. @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Almost at the end of my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social holiday countdown! #20 is @timb-m.bsky.social brilliant Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life newbooksnetwork.com/critical-games

Our Annual Review 2024/25 is here! 👇

From policy to culture, the European Institute spent 2024–25 connecting experts, shaping debate, and bringing research to life across Europe.

Read the full review: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

My friend and colleague, Michael Collins's Windrush Cricket arrived in the post today. Christmas has come early! @uclhistory.bsky.social y.social @academic.oup.com

The @karolinumpress.cuni.cz will be publishing my Critical Games in Czech. Such a privilege! Here's hoping that Czech and Slovak readers enjoy my takes on Kundera, Vilikovský, Juráňová, alongside Carrère, de Vigan, Bolaño, etc. @manchesterup.bsky.social

book cover -- black and white 1940s photo of Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) playing guitar, dressed in a suit with a microphone in front and American flag behind. Book title in orange lettering, Bring Judgment Day. Subtitle, white lettering: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies.

Thanks! My book, described as "a historical reclamation that pulls no punches in unpacking the racism surrounding one of America’s greatest folk voices” - #LeadBelly (1889-1949), a deep dive into post-Reconstruction America. www.cambridge.org/core/books/b... - Just $22.36 with code BJD2025!!!

"[...] redefines our understanding of funerary culture" - Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

"It makes the seemingly rigid traditions come alive" - Hana Navratilova (Oxford)

"A guaranteed cure for insomnia" - Me

🏺 #OA #openaccess #egyptology #religion

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Congrats! Looks fascinating. Let’s promote OUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

Great! I hope that you enjoy it.

MY PUBLISHED BOOK! Emmanuel Carrère says it "explodes all academic frames and expectations", so handle with care!
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!

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Today! @manchesterup.bsky.social

IAS Book Launch: Critical Games
2 Dec, 6:30-8pm
Please join @timb-m.bsky.social Tim Beasley-Murray for the launch of his new book Critical games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life.
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In case you, like me, have not yet found this incredible resource/s by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and a few others, IT IS SO GREAT!!! 🙌🔥🙌 against-a-i.com

IAS Book Launch: Critical Games Please join Tim Beasley-Murray for the launch of his new book Critical games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life.

If you are in London on 2nd December and interested in Critical Games, do come and help launch it at the UCL Institute of Advance Studies! I'll be in discussion with Abigail Wiliams (Oxford/KCL). @manchesterup.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl-ias.bsky.social
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Manchester University Press - Critical games Critical games - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Critical games by Tim Beasley-Murray

@timb-m.bsky.social's new book Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, #Literature and Life reflects on how literature, #culture, #universities and society can be both playful and profound

Find out more 👇
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I have long been a, well not a fan as such, but an avid and intrigued reader of Christian Kracht. His vision of the world is disturbing but once you have seen it, you just can’t look away! Great to see his book doing so well now in English.

Listen! @timb-m.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the excellent "Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life" newbooksnetwork.com/critical-games

It's official @fmussgnug.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social has sold out the Gustave Tuck.

Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.

Want to find out more about Critical Games? About how games can get serious, whether played by academics or by authors of fiction and non-fiction? Listen to this new @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my book. @manchesterup.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social

Such a pleasure to talk with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my book, Criticsl Games for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Do have a listen! newbooksnetwork.com/critical-games

My New Books Network interview with Prof Dave O’Brien is now available: newbooksnetwork.com/culture-capi...

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📆 Coming up on 15 October

Join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections, and marking the publication of Thomas Kador’s Object-based Learning book.

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With her extraordinary work—in collaboration with her husband, Peter—no one has done more to promote Slovak literature in the anglophone world than @juliasherwood.bsky.social And this latest translation of powerful short stories about the atrocity and violence of the Second World War is a triumph.

On International Translation Day, we are delighted to introduce our collaborator in the Modern Slovak Classics series, the London-based @juliasherwood.bsky.social. She is not only active as a translator but also as a tireless promoter of Slovak and Czech literature abroad.

Next Monday at Hatchards Piccadilly: UK launch of two Slovak masterpieces in English – "The Hours and the Minutes" by Alfonz Bednár & "The Last Thing" by Leopold Lahola. Join scholar Tim Beasley-Murray, translator Julia Sherwood and editor Jan Zikmund for a fascinating discussion!

We warmly invite you to the UK launch of two newly translated Slovak classics from Karolinum Press: "The Hours and the Minutes" by Alfonz Bednár and "The Last Thing" by Leopold Lahola at Hatchards Piccadilly on 29 Sept, 6:30pm with Tim Beasley-Murray, Julia Sherwood and Jan Zikmund. Join us!