Flat lay of Moving Mountains at Edinburgh - book laid out with badge to festival, jar of rhubarb jam from Caro Clarke, a bright green FPN2 face mask and box of migraine tablets.

four women on stage talking with each other, large screens either side and audience members in darkness in foreground. Edinburgh International Book Festival in type with logo above and central.

Four women standing smiling at the camera.

blue ribbon with ID tag that reads: Edinburgh International Book Festival, LOUISE KENWARD, Author.

A huge thank you @edbookfest.bsky.social @rkrystalli.bsky.social @atarbuck.bsky.social Rowan Jaines & @portyliterary.bsky.social - everyone who came along & asked wonderful qus & @pollyrowena.bsky.social for photos on stage.
Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends

Rowan Jaines, Louise Kenward & Alice Tarbuck: Redefining Nature Writing From Sun 17 Aug - Moving Mountains is a new and compelling anthology of nature writing, from the perspective of disabled and chronically ill authors. Through 25 pieces, deftly edited by Louise Kenward...

I'm heading up to Edinburgh - this is where I'll be this weekend!
Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant @rkrystalli.bsky.social with @atarbuck.bsky.social & Rowan Jaines - what an incredible panel!
#NatureWriting #Disability #BookSky
(It will be recorded)
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.

The International Affairs summer reading list 2025 There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

Thank you @iajournal.bsky.social for including Good Victims in your books of the summer! Very much looking forward to reading the rest of the books on this list.

medium.com/internationa... @standrewsir.bsky.social @ustaresearchimpact.bsky.social

A total pleasure! Thank you for having me 💙

What a lovely time we had last night, celebrating the paperback publication of Anima: A Wild Pastoral! 🌱

Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚

We’re delighted that Kapka Kassabova will join us in the bookshop this coming Wednesday (25/06) for an event to discuss Anima: A Wild Pastoral with @rkrystalli.bsky.social. Sign up to join us in person or online: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/kapka... @vintagebooks.bsky.social

Jack and Victor from still game suffering in a heatwave

It's the hottest day of the year so pause for a moment to offer thoughts and prayers for all the Scottish pensioners cooking their Friday mince'n'tatties regardless, because Friday has *always* been mince'n'tatties night these past 50 years and they're not about to change the habit of a lifetime now

@annabookwriter.bsky.social a few things for now: for amazing Italian food in Glasgow, try Celentano’s. Ranjit’s kitchen for Indian. Bar Brett for wine and snacks, Ka Pao for Thai, Sylvan for vegetarian and vegan. If you have questions about life in Scotland, get in touch! @alyssaharad.bsky.social

In Defense of Despair The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

Hanif Abdurraqib on “the responsibilities of the heart” — one of the most gorgeous essays I’ve read in years.

www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

It’s so lovely to e-meet you @annabookwriter.bsky.social - Glasgow is a great food city! Happy to send more specific tips and help you settle in as best I can.

@alyssaharad.bsky.social - it makes me so happy to be reconnected. I’m rarely here, but I miss you!

While the Supreme Court ruled, I tore up a fence On being trans and living a life

The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.

hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...

We’re excited that Madeleine Thien is coming to discuss The Book of Records with @rkrystalli.bsky.social on Wed 28th May! Join us to hear about Thien’s first novel since the Booker & Women’s Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...

Fraser MacDonald · On Compost I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...

I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB.

(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)

Three daffodils catching the light. Two have peach-hued trumpets, fanning out like a crinoline. The other is a white and yellow daffodil that looks like a scrambled egg. A yellow glazed bowl sits beside the vase. Improbable blue skies all around.

Telegram from my garden, an occasional series:

The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.

I always love Helen, and doubly so when she’s talking about gardens. Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I am not here a lot, so I miss these things. Love to you both and gratitude for these wise words!

Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace The next contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Helen Berents. Helen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Government and International Re…

Today's blog post is from my dear friend, colleague, and marvellous co-conspirator @hmberents.bsky.social. Helen writes on "Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace" (@rkrystalli.bsky.social I think you will like this one!): thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...

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Alone together A love letter to radio

A new essay from me on how radio tethers us to time, place, and each other.

It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much!

roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...

📢 Exciting news! Good Victims by Roxani Krystalli (OUP, 2024) has been shortlisted for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025! 👏🎉

🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...

#evertoexcel

@rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

I am still rarely on this app, but popped in to thank BISA for including Good Victims on its L.H.M Ling prize shortlist. Looking forward to reading the rest of the books on it! 🌻💛

Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating @danzep.bsky.social’s new book, Overnight, with the wonderful @rkrystalli.bsky.social! 🌌🌙

It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there!

Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...

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Published!

In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba.

Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others!

Open access!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A picture window at night covered in pale outlines shaped like the ghosts of birds. A bit of moonlight falls through them and across the bed, where a rainbow colored blanket is spread.

We have these little bird shapes in the windows to keep birds safe, and at night the moon lights them up. They make me feel like a kid again each time I see them.

In praise of gathering The gift of a crowded table

A new essay from me on the pleasure of using every fork and chair in the house in times of joy and sorrow.

roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Joint LAC-DPIR Seminar: FROM VICTIMHOOD TO LOVE: The political as a feminist question In Colombia

Friends and colleagues around Oxford, I’ll be in town @politicsoxford.bsky.social on February 4th to talk about Good Victims. 🌻

It would be lovely to see you there!

www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

Mmm yes, I know the river anthropology a lot better (and river political ecology too, though I wouldn't say that overlaps with political science necessarily). River historiography sounds special!

I'm in the queue for Martyr! through the library - can't wait to compare notes.

It very well might exist, but I'm not familiar with it - I tend to read the books and articles and follow the footnotes from there. Good luck - I'm excited to learn from what you find.