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Remo Verdickt

@removerdickt.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher at University of Leuven Postdoc project on the US Supreme Court's uses of literature PhD on James Baldwin (KU Leuven)

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Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5mo ago

What's notable to me about the Alito-Jackson spat on Monday is how little Alito's opinion bothers with anything resembling legal analysis. He doesn't respond to Jackson, in any meaningful sense. It's just an angry blog post about how she really ought to be more respectful to him.

Samuel Alito Had No Answers For Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Latest Dissent

The more transparently political the Court’s work becomes, the more fiercely the conservative justices insist that there is nothing political about the Court’s work.

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Remo Verdickt@removerdickt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Emiel Roothooft en ik konden ons geen mooier begin voor 2026 inbeelden dan de publicatie van ons interview met Mircea Cărtărescu in De Nederlandse Boekengids. Mulțumesc aan Mircea en dNBg! www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20260113-emi...

Emiel Roothooft & Remo Verdickt | Een interview met Mircea Cărtărescu

De Roemeense auteur Mircea Cărtărescu schreef met Theodoros een instantklassieker. Op die Nobelprijs is het nog minstens een jaar wachten, maar de Roemeen blikt zowel voor- als achteruit. In dit inter...

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Andrei@theuntranslated.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congrats to Laure Hinckel for winning Le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 for her corruscating translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros! actualitte.com/article/1273...

Laure Hinckel remporte le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025

Porté par ATLAS, l’Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire, le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles, doté de 5000 €, a été...

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 11mo ago

“What [Dick Cheney works] to preclude is any acknowledgment that the issue at hand, whether it is avoiding military service or authorizing torture, might have a moral or an ethical or even a self-interested dimension that merits discussion.” —Joan Didion

Cheney: The Fatal Touch | Joan Didion

It was in some ways predictable that the central player in the system of willed errors and reversals that is the Bush administration would turn out to be its vice-president, Richard B. Cheney.

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Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Andrei@theuntranslated.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...

Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress

Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag I am honoured again to publish on The Untranslated an interview with Mircea Cărtărescu. Like the previous time, the interview was conducted by my Belgian friends Emiel Roothoo…

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René Aguigah@aguigah.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Feeling so honored to be part of this issue of James Baldwin Review, with an Interview on „James Baldwin. Der Zeuge“, thanks to @removerdickt.bsky.social 🙏🏾 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

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James Baldwin Review@jbrjournal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is proud to announce the publication of its eleventh volume with thanks to the extraordinary collaborative vision of three European guest editors: Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco. #JamesBaldwin www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

Cover art for JBR Vol 11, featuring James Baldwin's US passport. courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The #JamesBaldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal, bringing together work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin Volume 11 is now available to buy as a paperback bit.ly/46gAHlK Find out more about our brand new series #ThinkingWithJamesBaldwin bit.ly/3KAncol @jbrjournal.bsky.social

Manchester University Press - James Baldwin Review

James Baldwin Review - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of James Baldwin Review by Douglas Field

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Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Nicholas Boggs joins #LARBRadioHour to talk his new biography. “James Baldwin: A Love Story” offers an intimate portrait of the literary legend anchored by the romances that shaped his life, writing, and political vision. https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/nicholas-boggss-james-baldwin-a-love-story/

Nicholas Boggs’s “James Baldwin: A Love Story” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Eric Newman speaks with Nicholas Boggs about his monumental new biography, James Baldwin: A Love Story.

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Remo Verdickt@removerdickt.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about MAGA's idiosyncratic readings and brazen weaponizations of the Western canon. Buckle up for a bumpy ride from Curtis Yarvin's Tlön to Gustavo Petro's Macondo. Part of JTAS' special issue "Reflections on the US 2024 Elections in a Global Context." escholarship.org/uc/item/1199...

No Country for Illiterate Men? Reading Western Literature in the Wake of November 5

Author(s): Verdickt, Remo | Abstract: This essay reflects on the 2024 US presidential election in light of the conservative movement’s increasing conflation of fact and literary fiction. Recent mobili...

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Brenda Lelie@brendalelie.bsky.social · last yr.

"Het bed met de gouden poot is tegelijk een ideale introductie tot de Letse cultuur en een tijdloze vertelling die uitnodigt om verder na te denken over hoe de geschiedenis zich misschien niet zozeer herhaalt, als wel steeds gekleurd wordt door ons eigen referentiekader." @removerdickt.bsky.social

Zigmunds Skujins’ ‘Het bed met de gouden poot’: 500 pagina’s uitstekende literatuur ★★★★☆

Eindelijk is er een Nederlandse vertaling van Zigmunds Skujins’ Het bed met de gouden poot. De imposante familiekroniek is tegelijk een ideale introductie tot de Letse cultuur en een tijdloze allegorie.

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