Adam Mahler

congrats - though your dispatches will be missed!

Granta was saddened to hear of António Lobo Antunes’s death. In honour of his life and work, we have made his writing for the magazine free to read.

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We love diasporic Jewish languages!

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Who would have thought that Landry would have been one of the two on Friday Night Lights to become major movie stars. Michael B. Jordan was destined for greatness obvi, but I would have expected Coach or Tim Riggins.

this made me cackle all the way through

Worst Abbey Road recreation I’ve ever fucking seen

Most people will hopefully respond to this statement by Gottheimer by saying “I recognize that it is false to accuse Newsom of antisemitism for this.” But some will say, “If this is antisemitism, I don’t care about antisemitism.” Which is why this sort of rhetoric is so irresponsible.

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

The great Antonio Lobo Antunes passed away. A psychiatrist profoundly impacted by the colonial war in Angola, Lobo wrote brilliant visceral books about violence and otherness, doubling down on the legacy of modernists like Celine.

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I am so looking forward to reading this.

A Galp anunciou esta segunda-feira um resultado líquido recorde de 1154 mil milhões de euros em 2025, um aumento de 20% face ao ano anterior.
Devemos estar quase a sentir a bonança nos nossos bolsos, é só esperar mais um pouco.

Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

I wish I had this job

"Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order...the beginning of a harsh reality where large power geopolitics is submitted to no limits, no constraints. On the other hand, I would like to tell you that other countries...are not powerless. They have the capacity to support, with Regrets."

This bronze coin from around the time of the name change bears the word "BENVENTOD", showing the old D ending of the ablative case that's lost in later Classical Latin – that is, 'from Beneventum'.

A bronze coin from Roman-era Beneventum, with Apollo's head and the text "Benven-tod" on one side, from the Classical Numismatic Group

In ancient southern Italy, there was a settlement known as something like Malies in the local Oscan language, rendered in Greek as Malioenton.

This became Maleventum to the Romans, but that by accident sounded unlucky (like 'evil-wind'). So, it got renamed Beneventum – today, the city of Benevento.

Red States: Only teach approved christian nationalist content
Blue States: Teach anything you like as long as you hire an adjunct to do it cause you ain't getting faculty lines in the humanities lol

Email your representatives: No War with Iran! I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Iran. Can you join me? https://admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-representative-no-wa...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Email your representative: No War with Iran! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

Another #mla2027 guaranteed panel this time working across disability studies and the global Hispanophone. Hit me up if you have any questions! mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

For all that we can talk about the value of medieval literature for the present and the space it creates to think about issues at a bit of a remove, I’m finding it awfully hard to concentrate on 12th-century Neoplatonism with my country unsystematically destabilizing the entire globe.

Flyer for lecture by Rachel Schine

We are super thrilled that @rachelschine.bsky.social is holding an online lecture on March 4th! DM or email @speriola.bsky.social of you want to join us 🙂 #cims

Top of the Guardian vs top of the Times. I’d love to hear about the latter’s editorial decision-making process on this one.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Segundo as regras da fifa se um país tá em guerra, a copa deve ser feita no país anterior, que foi o Catar, que foi atacado, antes do Catar foi na Rússia que também tá em guerra, ou seja, a copa pode ser no Brasil