Oh god. What a wonderful scholar and lovely, generous man. I wanted to collaborate with Anthony, interview him on his last book, and keep learning from him for years to come. He was so young and had so much more to share with the world. Just utterly, utterly tragic.

Benoît Melançon@benoitmelancon.bsky.social · last mo.

Hommage à Anthony Glinoer (1976-2026) • oreilletendue.com/2026/06/28/h... •

John was a lovely scholar, a great teacher, a wonderful mentor, a dear friend, and above all a generous, gorgeously humane man. There's a story to tell one day of how he changed my life far beyond the classroom. I'll miss him more than I can say. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/06...

John Fleming, renowned medieval scholar, legendary Princeton lecturer and revered ‘intellectual virtuoso,’ dies at age 90

Fleming's famed undergraduate course on Chaucer drew hundreds of students to McCosh Hall, year after year, decade after decade.

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Taking a break from social media for a bit in order to better focus on my own work. Two quotes for now, and take care out there! “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” ~ Alasdair Gray “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.” ~ Virginia Woolf

Beobachtung von Karl Schlögel: "Und ich bin überhaupt der Auffassung, dass die Erfahrung des Scheiternkönnens und des Verstumenmüssenkönnens eine zentrale und wesentliche Erfahrung aller Arbeit von Historikern ist.“

A private library full of #backwardsbooks. You see St Augustine in his study, lifting a burning heart up towards a heavenly light, and his books are all nicely shelved fore-edge outwards. #bookhistory #booksky

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

Emily Doucet, Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts - @dukepress.bsky.social, April 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/inventing-na...

Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts

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Antoine Compagnon, 1966, année mirifique (Gallimard, 2026 ; #skystorians) : www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/19...

‘Is the Met kouros indelibly – for all its composure – another Actaeon? Do we men and women not always look at his kind of manliness with an admiration subtended by pity and rage?’ T.J. Clark visits and revisits a male statue in the Met: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met

The kouros in the Met was almost certainly a soldier: he has stepped out of his armour into his skin. The idea of...

lrb.co.uk

Jean Grondin, Les tournants herméneutiques de Paul Ricœur (Études Ricœuriennes / Ricœur Studies, Vol 14, No 1 [2023], pp. 9-24) : ricoeur.pitt.edu/ojs/ricoeur/...

Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza.bsky.social), Sisters of Sacrilege (@criterion.bsky.social; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social): www.criterion.com/current/post...

Jonas Nickel, Pour en finir avec le culte de la victimisation (En attendant Nadeau ; #skystorians) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/12/27/p...

Les Écrivains collaborateurs : Pour en finir avec le culte de la victimisation - En attendant Nadeau

Dans Les Écrivains collaborateurs. Engagement, stigmate et postérité, Tristan Rouquet retrace la trajectoire de plus de deux cents écrivains avant, pendant et après la collaboration.

en-attendant-nadeau.fr

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

donmoynihan.substack.com

Gorgeous work from a book designer I had always wondered about; delighted to see this contribution to graphic design and #bookhistory! Tanya George, Sylvie Vodáková’s Book Covers for Květy Poezie (@letterformarchive.org; #skystorians): letterformarchive.org/news/sylvie-...

From the Collection: Sylvie Vodáková’s Book Covers for Květy Poezie

Meet the Czech designer who shaped how generations of readers encountered poetry.

letterformarchive.org

Gorgeous article: Kobby Ankomah Graham (@kobbygraham.bsky.social), Seydou Keïta’s Revelatory Portraits of Malian Life (Aperture, #photography) aperture.org/editorial/se...

Seydou Keïta’s Revelatory Portraits of Malian Life

In midcentury Bamako, sitting for a portrait in Seydou Keïta’s studio was a defining assertion of identity.

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Let the depth of techbros' weirdness vis-à-vis politics & history never be underestimated .... Demis Hassabis, a primary architect of AI technologies today as well as the joint winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, directed and conceived this game in 2003: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

Republic: The Revolution - Wikipedia

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Fantastic piece (gift-link): Nina Siegal with visuals by Desiré Van Den Berg (@bergdotjpeg.bsky.social), The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe (New York Times; #skystorians) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe

nytimes.com

A great writer on a great photographer: Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social), Richard Misrach on the Eerie Grandeur of Global Trade (Aperture; #photography) aperture.org/editorial/ri...

Richard Misrach on the Eerie Grandeur of Global Trade

Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.

aperture.org

Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roger Caillois – Race, Games and a Ceremonial Sword progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/28/c...

Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roger Caillois – Race, Games and a Ceremonial Sword

Roger Caillois and Claude Lévi-Strauss both spent the war in exile from France. Lévi-Strauss had done fieldwork in Brazil in the 1930s, but when he left France he went through Martinique and was de…

progressivegeographies.com

"With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society." A must-read from @radleybalko.bsky.social , even if you've been following Trump's use of immigration enforcement to terrorize communities. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

newrepublic.com

Anne-Laure Pineau (@annelaurepineau.bsky.social), How the French fell in love with family-driven memoirs and autofiction (@theguardian.com): www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How the French fell in love with family-driven memoirs and autofiction | Anne-Laure Pineau

Matriarchs, absent fathers and troubled childhoods: 2025 was the year French literature focused on family, says writer Anne-Laure Pineau

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Un'intervista affascinante, ricca di intuizioni aforistiche .... Alessandra Lanza, Parola di Andrea Branzi (Abitare, 3 Marzo 2017; #skystorians): www.abitare.it/it/ricerca/r...

Andrea Branzi, intervista sul design

Il Centre Pompidou di Parigi dedica una sala permanente ad Andrea Branzi, protagonista del design, artista e pensatore. Abitare l'ha intervistato

abitare.it

L’éducation politique d’un sociologue : Gisèle Sapiro ( @giselesapiro.bsky.social) s'entretient avec Michael Burawoy (FR/EN, 2 avril 2021 ; @politikaio.bsky.social, @cessp.ehess.fr, @ehess.fr) www.politika.io/fr/entretien...

L’éducation politique d’un sociologue

En mémoire de Michael Burawoy

politika.io

On autosociobiography and social mobility: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social

Beyond the ‘Scholarship Boy’ paradigm: Autosociobiography and social mobility - Sam Friedman, Mike Savage, Carlos Spoerhase, 2025

This article reflects on the potential of the rapidly emerging literary genre of autosociobiography to extend analyses of the personal experience and feelings a...

journals.sagepub.com

„Wenn man es so weit kommen lässt, dass das Land wirklich gespalten ist, wie in den USA, dann kriegt man halt irgendwann gar nichts mehr auf die Kette." In den Nebenbemerkungen über die Welt hinter der Dorfgrenze kommt die ganze Dummheit der Analyse heraus. taz.de/Juli-Zeh-ueb...

Juli Zeh über Nachbarn, die AfD wählen: „Ich bin nicht der Heldinnen-Typ“

Viel wird geredet über die, die für die AfD stimmen, Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh lebt mit ihnen im Dorf. Ein Gespräch über Rechtspopulisten, Talkshows und durchtanzte Nächte.

taz.de

Surely I'm not the only #skystorian out there screenshot'ing the NYT on the assumption that many of us and our colleagues will one day professionally write about its role legitimizing Trump in the teeth of vehement denials and gaslighting from the newspaper's C-suite? Unbelievable stuff regardless.

Rémi Brague - La profondeur du présent (rencontre animée par Charles-Henri d'Andigné à la librairie La Procure ; @editionshermann.bsky.social ; #skystorians) : youtu.be/lDrUaYUPPes

Rémi Brague - La profondeur du présent

YouTube video by Librairie La Procure

youtu.be

Gift-link access (with me keeping silent on certain demographics like old German 68ers, &c.): www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...

The Far Right in Germany Keeps Trying to Unseal National Secrets

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Lovely feature on one of my favorite photographers, René Groebli, by Christian House for the @theguardian.com #photography: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘It’s all about love’: how a Swiss photographer’s intimate honeymoon pictures caused a scandal

René Groebli took portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney and pioneered new modes of photography. But it was his tender, erotic pictures taken in a Paris hotel room in the 50s that really caused ...

theguardian.com