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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person. https://hararereview.com 📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc (Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
congratulations to all the World Fantasy Award Finalists!!!!!!*
2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…
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6. I’m a multi book reader at the same time. Currently reading ‘Arthur’s Home of the Nosh’ , Gabby Peyton’s ‘Where We Ate’, 300 Raisons D’Adore Le Gaspésie, and Helene Cixous ‘White Ink’
My favourite genre is everything - I can’t narrow too much. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Irish crime fiction, cookbooks , art monographs, and Helene Cixous
Some other friends I made doing fieldwork around Rustenburg.
A stunningly brilliant book, one of my favourite recent fantasy books. There are very few queer people on earth who don't, in dark moments, wonder what life would be like if they'd been a bit more brave or, on the other side, a bit less reckless. This book distills that ache to its essence.
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.
Paul Biya, the 94 year old president of Cameroon, has not been seen in public for 59 days.
A company in Mexico hired a stray orange cat as its Emotional Support Director and named him “Miauricio.” Daily duties include roaming the workplace, delivering smiles & reducing stress levels. He has his own workspace and ID badge. #AGoodPlace
South African Women Writers to Honour Soweto Uprising Leader Sibongile Mkhabela #LiteraryFestival #CelebratingWomen #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/south-africa...
South African Women Writers to Honour Soweto Uprising Leader Sibongile Mkhabela
76’ Inked!, a one-day women’s literary festival featuring leading South African writers, will honour Sibongile Mkhabela in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 10, 2026.
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Free #witmonth story via @grantamag.bsky.social: "An Unnecessary Man" by Maha Harada (1962- ) (translated by @louisehk.bsky.social) “The package arrived about a month after my father had passed away..."
An Unnecessary Man
‘I’d lived for half a century, but I had no sense of what that meant; no particular reaction.’ Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai.
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Honoured to be giving a keynote performance at this, alongside a new visual artwork. You may guess my viewpoints. #xl8
As part of the Animals in Translation project (AHRC/BRAID-funded), we are pleased to announce that registration for our forthcoming conference, Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation 1–2 October 2026 is now officially open! To register visit: www.trybooking.com/uk/GSQY
The embrace of myths is self-delusion of the most dangerous sort, and we’ve seen it throughout #America250 celebrations. James Baldwin called it decades ago. @laprogressive.bsky.social
James Baldwin and the Lies That Protect the Powerful
In Nothing Personal, Baldwin exposes how white supremacy, class hierarchy, consumerism, and manufactured division keep ordinary people from recognizing their common enemy.
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Available now: From preeminent fire historian Stephen J. Pyne, UNDYING FIRE offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame—and a history of fire refracted through Europe's landscapes, sciences, and empires. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
We are pleased to announce a new endowment to support the publication and promottion of the winners of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Huge thank you for Debbie and John Edwards for your generous support of our talented authors. https://loom.ly/Aws4u0A
New Endowment to provide support and recognition for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction - Georgia Press
Fund will help cover publication costs, programming, supplies, travel, and other expenses The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce a new
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In our July issue, Mina Raminsabet recommends 7 books of Iranian literature, culture, and history plus a “why read it” for each. worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/july/ir...
Netflix's new Little House on the Prairie adaptation arrives in an era marked by nostalgia for an imagined American past. In #AHAPerspectives, Abigail Jean Kahn and Michael Hines examine how the series revives a frontier myth that has long shaped American understandings of history and belonging.
Rebooting the Frontier Myth – AHA
Netflix’s new Little House on the Prairie adaptation gives life to one of America’s most durable pieces of frontier mythology.
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NBCC member Sullivan Summer interviewed writer, editor, and educator Maria Pinto about her book, "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival," on the Additions to the Archive podcast: buff.ly/xZFskJp
Maria Pinto, "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival" (UNC Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev is ranked among the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century in a New York Times poll. Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones nominated UNTRACEABLE in the Times poll. The NYTimes has likened it to work by John le Carré. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New review article: Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social on 'Apartheid, after Apartheid' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
History beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography, ed. Thula Simpson @manchesterup.bsky.social; Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, by Gabrielle Hecht @gabriellehecht.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social;
Today:
Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, August 5 at 6:45 PM ET for an online talk with Smithsonian Associates on Bluebeard! We explore what some of the oldest versions look like and how the story has been retold in contemporary times. Art by Edmund Dulac. smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr... #fairytales
Riverrun, an imprint of the John Murray Group, has acquired Island of the Dead by CWA Dagger and the Library Award-winning writer Peter May. Island of the Dead will be published in January 2027, bringing May out of retirement for the third time in the past five years.👇
Riverrun brings Peter May out of retirement again for new novel
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The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2026-2027 is now open for submissions: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Is there an interest in Irish literature and culture in your community or university? If so, make sure your library has a copy of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page! Available here from Cork University Press: www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205495...
So grateful to Aaron Thorpe & Alexander Aviña for highlighting Palestine + 100 on the latest Trillbilly Worker’s Party Pod 📻📚 A premium ep but always worth the price of admission imo! open.spotify.com/episode/7cas...
Premium 456: Speculative Terrorforming (w/ special guest Alexander Aviña)
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Fruit to produce jet fuel: another greenwashing scam, directly from the fossil fuel industry, that will turn an area of Brazilian countryside the size of LA into a monoculture. 🧵
Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing
A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.
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This is quite clever! And neat that this app is the product of an undergraduate student! m.koreaherald.com/article/1083...
Too hot to walk? This app knows where the shade is
For many pedestrians amid the record-breaking heat wave, every walk now begins with one question: Where’s the shade? A map app that provides the answer is gain
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Finished MASKS by Fumiko Enchi, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter as my 2nd #WITmonth #WomenInTranslation read. Okay this book unravels a series of interlocking love triangles with hints at lesbianism, incestuous closeness, intergenerational obsessions and i dunno what else.
signed up for a year's subscription to the ancillary review of books because I've really been enjoying the speculative fiction reviews on the @mealofthorns.bsky.social podcast
Melburnians! Join me on Thursday 20 August, as part of the National Science Week. @meerkatpress.bsky.social www.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/Community/Wh...
Art, science and speculative fiction with Eugen Bacon
Join fiction writer Eugen Bacon for a talk about how science and storytelling work together.
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