Rachel Malik
@rachelmalik.bsky.social
Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon. https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
In a review of Kiran Desai’s sprawling, Booker-nominated novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” Shakti Jaising asks: “To what extent might the Booker, and venues like it in Europe and the US, be drawn for self-serving reasons to fiction like Desai’s?” www.publicbooks.org/the-allure-o...
The Allure of Postcolonial Pathos - Public Books
"To what extent might the Booker—and venues like it in Europe and the US—be drawn for self-serving reasons to fiction like Kiran Desai’s?"
publicbooks.org
This book is absolutely miraculous. Delighted to say we have an event at Foyles on the 13th August with @amykey.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Alice Vincent and Megan Hunter- also 🤞🏼, we shall be recieving a phone call from Joan Barfoot during the event! www.foyles.co.uk/events/unear...
Unearthing a Classic: The Rediscovery of Gaining Ground
Alice Vincent, Amy Key, Megan Hunter and Rose Ruane explore the rediscovery of 'Gaining Ground' half a century after its initial release
foyles.co.uk
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot review – Anne Enright celebrates a landmark feminist novel
Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?
Suffolk sky from yesterday evening. Is there a word for the little tail of cloudy light that seems to be unrolling from the grey?
Good morning from Jacobean Suffolk. (We’re in a nearby cottage btw)
Signed off print proofs for 2 books yesterday ! The North American edition of my book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION (3 Nov, Invisible Books) invisiblepublishing.com/product/fair/ My translation of Barbi Marković's story collection MINIHORROR (22 Oct, Faber) www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
"Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many—they are few!" --- Radical Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, born 4 August 1792. The Masque of Anarchy, written in the aftermath of the Peterloo massacre.
These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
Just in case anyone on here actually believes that Cambridge is in the hands of the wokerati. An investigation by @bylinetimes.bsky.social on murky relations between Palantir, James Orr and the university which demonstrates the same combination of vanity and cynical pragmatism.
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
bylinetimes.com
‘The irony is that thousands of academics are losing their jobs right now, for reasons that are entirely financial, without anything to do with knowledge or Truth, though will do incalculable damage to the overall social system on which knowledge depends’
How the Jason Arday affair will fizzle out
Truth is a social system. Sorry.
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I have a story in Radio 4's new Once Upon a Time series - a week of reimagined fairytales in the Book at Bedtime slot Lineup includes Katherine Rundell, Ben Okri, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and David Almond (I KNOW!!!) My story "Kakapos" is on 30 June and then on catchup www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Once Upon a Time..., Kakapos by Jo Lloyd
In Jo Lloyd’s story, very ordinary Muriel meets Rip Van Winkle in the below world.
bbc.co.uk
Getting ready to go on holiday with a dog is like having a toddler again but at least Ziggy will be happy with one toy
Definitely the case here. In two weeks we find which 9 of 12 in my group will be gone. The other 3 will then have a month to prepare and find hourly-paid replacements for all the classes across two degrees. And supervise 25 PhDs. Plus admin and pastoral care and research. Management doesn’t care.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d agoIf you're arriving at uni this autumn, or maybe dropping your kids, remember that there could be a ghostly phalanx of absent redundant staff, lost modules and degraded degrees making it a very unhappy place. It may *look* the same, but it won't *be* the same. www.ft.com/content/e5b0...
When schools were locked down during Covid, our daughter was one of the people interviewed by The Guardian about how lockdown was adversely affecting teenagers’ mental health. She was part of the group whose GCSEs were cancelled. It was a fair and sympathetic article, focusing on the teens' concerns
To all our parents who never read our doctoral theses.
Jeremy Noel-Tod@jntod.bsky.social · 3d agoAbsolutely stone cold dedication to a work of popular history
Here we go!
JacquiWine@jacquiwine.bsky.social · 4d agoToday sees the start of #WITMonth (Women in Translation), an annual focus on books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English. To mark the occasion, here are ten brilliant books I heartly recommend - all by women in translation! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...
Hard not to sing this to the tune "Say Hello , Wave Goodbye"
Jean Rhys@msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 5d agoSitting on the terrace of the Dôme, drinking Pernods and talking about sanity with enormous hollows under my eyes.
Hampstead Heath just now. currently sitting in a cafe trying to eat a 🥐 watched very intensely by a dog.
holiday reading: 🔘M. John Harrison, The End of Everything 🔘Gwendoline Riley, The Palm House 🔘Both 🔘Other
Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda
Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda
This bold family saga explores a search for healing and truth in the aftermath of the Rwanda genocide
theguardian.com
