ANU Press Coming Soon: Cover image of Lilith: A Feminist History Journal: Number 31
Issue 31 of ‘Lilith' comes at a time when feminist history feels both urgent and under threat. From rising fascism to cuts in academic freedom, history and gender studies are being slashed, while scholars face growing precarity.
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really trying to believe I can have a new life
bfi player my beloved <3
so depressed all I can do is listen to old lana on repeat
terrible week. consoling myself with rosewater and honey latte. have never found another coffee shop on this level
why is every modernist archive in america
can't help it that i do my best work to taylor swift
how did I not know Joan Baez has an album with an excerpt from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in it !! Wild
revising my novel kind of summer
trying to take a more "fuck it, sure" and less "fuck it all" approach to life
Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do.
maybe I should start believing in providence
dreamed last night I was having an interview for a PhD programme lol
The Derwent Press is open for submissions! Send in your art and writing with a midlands theme here:
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'The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations'"
800+ lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, incl former supreme court justices
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
I love listening to bob dylan because he is simultaneously one of the world's greatest songwriters and one of the world's pettiest people
started Ulysses the other day because I see nothing but lean little books in bookshops and have read lots of short things lately so I have been craving a big, complicated book. This is a great success because in terms of big and complicated it cannot possibly disappoint me
new essay went up on Sunday on the writer who has been obsessing me since december
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just discovered I can get the paris review via my library app !!!
I feel like you really don't choose your favourite books, they pick you
The shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942
cover of "The Aeneid by Virgil", gold and dark blue, showing Roman image of wounded warrior Aeneas with his weeping son, Astyanax/ Iulus.
This beautiful new metrical verse translation of the Aeneid, by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, with introduction by me, will be available in August. You can pre-order now!
had never previously understood why ppl in the 80s thought that 80s fashion looked good but I watched an hour of kate bush performances and it makes sense now.
found an artist on spotify (eleri ward) whose catalogue is mostly folk acoustic covers of sondheim's best pieces. I feel so targeted
looks like fun!!
I picked it up in Gay's the Word ages ago but haven't gotten round to it until now. Enjoying it a lot! It reminds me a bit of early Joyce but the social setting is very different and it's generally lighter in tone
finally embarking on The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. so far: very funny. has someone done an edition illustrated with the relevant paintings yet? I keep having to stop to look them up because it's all so exciting
