Today is #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay. Here's "Two Owls", a 1921 print by Dutch artist Julie de Graag. Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/two-owls And more on the good work of owl conservation here: https://www.owls.org/

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My timeline might be pleased to know that there's now a statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Dorchester's high street.

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Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

"...a bewildering tapestry of myth and lore..." #twistedspoonpress #20BOS26 Book 18 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/a...

“…a bewildering tapestry of myth and lore…” #twistedspoonpress #20BOS26 Book 18

Back in 2017 I discovered the German-Czech author, Johannes Urzidil, when a collection of his short Bohemian fables was published by Pushkin Press. I thoroughly enjoyed these stories, so when the P…

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I've just found this issue of @3lobedmag.com sitting forlornly in my spam folder - bad email system! Now that I have rescued it, I very much look forward to catching up with the goodies contained therein.

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“Burl Lamberson had lived at the dead end of Emmaus Lane for fifteen years, and never spoke to any of his neighbors. He figured he knew them well enough by the state of their yards, their political signs, and—” “Lemuria is for Lovers” by Cody Goodfellow Issue 48 www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...

Lionel XI: 1. Jospin, 2. Jeffries, 3. Stander, 4. Barrymore, 5. Shriver, 6. Bart, 7. Hampton, 8. Trilling, 9. Blair, 10. Messi (c), 11. Richie.

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classics profs today: [silently, to self: it's good they're taking an interest in Homer. it's enough that they're taking an interest in Homer. build on the interest. don't waste the opportunity] [aloud:] well heh the notion we have of "character" now is actually a modern [silently] stop stop

As part of the celebration events in Crystal Palace Park this weekend, the Dinosaurs will be illuminated each evening. We got a preview tonight..

Issue no. 7 of Bureaucritics is now out! This time, we open the file on "papereality," David Dery's name for the world where the written record creates the reality it describes. Read and subscribe here: bureaucritics.substack.com/p/paperealit...

Paperealities

Dear Bureaucritics,

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This thread is a manifesto I can get behind! ✊

Rob Hawkes@robbhawkes.bsky.social · 3w ago

“As @dr-nicky.bsky.social explains: ‘[A]nyone can liberate themselves from the strictures of normativity. The already neurodivergent can reconnect with, and cultivate previously suppressed or undeveloped capacities, in order to more fully manifest their potentials for beautiful weirdness…’” 1/

Book post! Nocturnal Mirrors by Richard Gavin, from @swanriverpress.bsky.social (OK, it's actually @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social's book post, but I somehow felt moved to 'borrow' it, I'm creative that way...)

Ah, this is sad news.

Pete Glastonbury@peteglastonbury.bsky.social · 3w ago

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On this scorching July afternoon, we are delighted to share #TheModernistReview62! With a range of excellent articles and reviews, we hope you enjoy this issue! 🌞 Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/t...

The Modernist Review Issue #62

10 July 2026 In our first issue following the joint Modernist Studies Association and British Association for Modernist Studies’ ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference earlier this month, we are…

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This is also true of Humanities journals and those of us who publish in them.

Ah, feck - my editor is about to disappear down a rabbit-hole...

Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae@perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social · 4w ago

Book post! My book finances are now seriously in deficit, though. It is a handsome volume, midnight blue cover with gold lettering. Which was rather difficult to capture successfully with the camera - I don't quite see a future for myself as an influencer on Instagram or TikTok... #Paradoxography

A gentle #CFP reminder 🕰️📣 Our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Deadline 31st July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk with proposals, doubts, and/or submissions! 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

I'm about to nip out for some pre-day-job work preparing the external walls of my house for a re-paint - it was going to be white, but now I've got notions...

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4w ago

Carrie Reichardt, British artist, a figurehead for the Craftivism movement has spent almost 20 years transforming her house on a quiet Chiswick street into a mosaic-covered wonder #womensart #FridayFeeling

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Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4w ago

✨ New Essay! ✨ If "money is queer," it's also deliciously weird. Check out @robbhawkes.bsky.social's latest, where he reads Fitzgerald, Larsen & Ford to challenge the austerity of the private money paradigm through the prism of modernist passing, performance, & trust. Please share! 🙌

I actually became a writer because I had a dream that one day I would get to make awkward promotional videos in a heatwave.

A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun by Amy Hale is available to purchase now on our website ✨ strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/a-walkin...

And that's a wrap on #WeirdModernisms! Thank you so much to everyone who took part and especially to all from @moderniststudies.bsky.social, @modernistudies.bsky.social, and the Loughborough local organising committee for their hard work to produce this wonderfully weird conference! 💐

Coming soon: the game-changing, years-in-the-making new biography of M.R. James written my most excellent colleague, Darryl Jones! @profdarryljones.bsky.social @irishgothichorror.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Interpretation is a core practice of the #humanities. @jstordaily.bsky.social's annotated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" brings the story together with scholarship that enriches the reading experience. Read: https://bit.ly/4vzNHgu Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Looking very well indeed! A big thank-you to @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social for organising this as a hybrid conference, so those of us unable to make it to lovely Loughborough can still attend #WeirdModernisms. Recharging the batteries during lunch break...

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Registration is open, and lively chats are already happening! The campus is looking its best and ready to welcome everyone for #WeirdModernisms. See you soon on campus everyone! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social

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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.

Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés@bibliorefuses.bsky.social · last mo.

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.

You know, as an inhabitant of Ireland I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but the bit of rain is welcome...