Congratulations to Ainehi Edoro, author of the just-published FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK, on being named a keynote thinker for the 2026 African Literature Association conference. bit.ly/4qQSN5y @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Today is pub day! My book, Reading Better States, is officially out from @fordhampress.bsky.social!

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Use code RBS25 for 25% off and free shipping!

#postcolonialstates #concreteutopias #utopianmethod #Bloch #environmentalharm #environmentalfuturity #climatechange

Relatability An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

y'all !!!!

I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️‍🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)

We the Platform | Columbia University Press Web 2.0 gave us the online world as we know it today. Popularized in 2004, it redefined the internet as social, a “platform” for self-expression and data... | CUP

We the Platform is available for preorder with the discount code CUP20 if you order directly from the press! cup.columbia.edu/book/we-the-... A thread on the argument below:

African Literature and US Empire African Literature and US Empire

Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...

What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social

Couldn’t wait for this!!!!

African Literature and US Empire African Literature and US Empire

Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place - Nebraska Press In recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on coming of age in postcolonial spaces ...

The book releases on Jan 1st. Preorder here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Odedina, Ladder of Dreams

Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Zoë Wicomb, 1948—2025, RIP Zoë Wicomb, the pioneering South African author and academic, has died in her home of Glasgow, Scotland. She was 77 years old. Born in the then Cape Province, Wicomb was raised in Namaqualand, then at...

Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.

johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...

Screenshot of a podcast episode page featuring Rose Casey’s book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style with summary text, book cover, audio player, and host details for Arnab Dutta Roy.

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Back with another fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode! I chat with the brilliant @rosecasey.bsky.social about her book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025). Please listen in & check out this fantastic book

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

The Global African Novel AbstractThe global African novel, as a genre, describes realist fictions that map contemporary migrations of the African diaspora in the late twentieth and

Full online publication of the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms out now! I have a chapter on how The Global African Novel theorizes realism and the violence of global capitalism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

The TLS calls this lovely book by my lovely former colleague Lindsay Wilhelm "elegant and compact"
doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Congrats and can't wait to read it!

Animist Poetics

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social

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J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable - Public Books What freshly nuanced perspectives might we bring to the violent late 20th-century history Coetzee describes?

"The idea of a poisonous text"
J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable - Public Books share.google/IYeXXJI7Hy6n...

Songs in Flight - Album by Various Artists Listen to Songs in Flight by Various Artists on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

What a gift of an album
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Chagrined to learn I'm a ways -in-whicher

Remain grateful to @arnabdr.bsky.social for including my @edinburghup.bsky.social book in his excellent series at the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
newbooksnetwork.com/african-lite...

sometimes the hardest part is getting started! tell your friends, your students ✨

Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States") Close Readings · Episode

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.”

“making life, not explaining anything”

I missed having these conversations.

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#ACLA2025 explore how African literature redefines trauma through animism—linking self, ancestors, and ecosystems. Forthcoming in 8/25, ANIMIST POETICS is a bold revision of psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory through Indigenous ecologies. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/yc6tbb69
#AfricanLit #TraumaTheory

Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.

Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.

A review of two new books

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