A Confederacy of Haters Substack describes its newsletters as solid “independent businesses.” The counter-public responds: we are gig workers excluded from most legacy media work.

Fascinating stuff from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social: 'Like public spheres of the past, Substack has created its own proletarianized counter-public: under-employed writers.'

Please share.

A truly excellent book!

As world focuses on Iran, Israel ‘engineering starvation policy' in Gaza The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.

The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’

In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now
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Book cover: SETTLER FICTION FROM THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, 1820-1890

The first book in the Race in Nineteenth Century Literatures and Cultures series (Oxford University Press) is out in June!

Porscha Fermanis’ Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890

Get your library to order copies!

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it's officially out! :)

Snippet of the introduction’s title line, “The Material Conditions of Victorian Poetry,” with two versions of the phrase “Victorian Poetry” laid on top of one another. One version is not italicized and refers to the field of study. The other version is italicized and refers to the journal, which has undergone a series of seismic transitions as a direct result of the erosion of literary studies and higher ed.

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture.

More here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Yay! Your chapter is so very good.

The cover of the collection Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Renee Fox and Mary Mullen. The cover image is Abandoned (2025) by Fiona McGovern.

Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!

Thanks for including our edited collection!

Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt.

Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579

Thank you, Niamh!

Thanks, Ciaran!

Thanks, Claire!!

Thank you, Deidre!!

Race, Violence, and Form, co-edited with a writer of the most beautiful sentences, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, is out now. For more about the volume, see our blog post up at Liverpool UP blog:

Rashid Khalidi Lecture: 'Britain, Ireland and Palestine' Prof Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, will lecture on the topic of his forthcoming book

This upcoming lecture from the inimitable Prof Rashid Khalidi in Queens' University Belfast looks brilliant: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rashid-kha...

Book cover: THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE, edited by Devin M. Garofalo & Nathan K. Hensley — in black font, against a Barbie pink background, design inspired by 80s literary theory book series.

Promotional flyer for THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE. Includes image of cover, description of book, editor bios, and brief promotional blurb by Heather K. Love: “This book makes clear why language, thought, and writing matter, now more than ever.” Discount code: NUP2026. All information included in the flyer, plus more, can be found at the linked website.

THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...

Article: Rocks, Referentiality: Ireland, Palestine, and Emily Lawless's Novels

also see from recently published colleciton, Race, Violence, and Form: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Max Chapnick reviews Irena Yamboliev's Ornament, The Novel, and the Victorian Real on Review 19: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

If one is to have freedom to write out of one's own varying unfolding self, and not be a machine always grinding out the same material or spinning the same sort of web, one cannot always write for the same public.

Tommy Tiernan & Mick Flannery on their new musical | The Late Late Show YouTube video by The Late Late Show

Good craic last night on @thelatelateshow.bsky.social with @tommytiernan.bsky.social @glenhansard.bsky.social and Patrick Kielty.

Tickets / Info for The House Must Win available here:
www.thehousemustwin.com
Thank you

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Hot off the press! AMERICAN LITERATURE'S WAR ON CRIME: NOVELS & THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF MASS INCARCERATION, by Theodore Martin. Use the coupon code MLA and save 30%! tinyurl.com/482zmjsw @columbiaup.bsky.social

following Ali Kadri, every IOF-U.S. bomb as a waste of human life, a furtherance of structural genocide against Arab peoples, and, in the long term, an attempt at enclosure, producing wasted land to be eventually put in service via settler-colonialism to western capital.

It is too much, has been too much, and it is hard to bear.

Troubled Hearts on the Land | Los Angeles Review of Books Minneapolis under siege, in images and words.

This is a beautiful essay: lareviewofbooks.org/article/minn...