I could literally hear the noise from the stadium for this goal and I live 1.5 miles away!

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Tomorrow presents an ideal opportunity for you to hear readings of works-in-progress from some wonderful new writers!

Come and see the work of the other students in the School of Arts and Humanities! Sit back in our air-conditioned lecture theatre and listen to our readings! Go to the park after!

An insufficient number of English voters care about working class black people because if they did then the Windrush scandal alone would have destroyed the Conservative Party. The fact that it didn’t, now that’s a legitimate concern.

Today's weather in Navrongo, a town in northern Ghana: 40 degrees ("feels like 45 degrees"). Unfathomable.

When you're the chief political correspondent of the BBC and treat blatant oppression of minorities in the US like a big budget mini series on Netflix.

Apply to the 2025 Frieze New Writers Programme in Bergen, Norway Deadline for applications is Tuesday 18 February to attend our free art-writing course, in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall and Office for Contemporary Art Norway

The next edition of Frieze New Writers – in collaboration with @bergenkunsthall and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway – will take place in Bergen later this spring. If you know any emerging art critics residing in the Nordics, please send this open call their way: www.frieze.com/article/frie...

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Picture quality is ~ok~ but we seem to have lost sound for some reason straight after Everton's goal 🤷🏿‍♀️

Eliot Weinberger · Incoming! They vow to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget – five times the combined annual salaries of all federal...

Really, the only thing I want to read about the upcoming Trump administration is the newest Eliot Weinberger in @londonreview.bsky.social. There will still be art during what is to come.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nikki Giovanni: In Her Revolutionary Dream | Los Angeles Review of Books Patrick A. Howell interviews poet Nikki Giovanni.

"I never think of myself as going to heaven." Rest In Peace to the iconic Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024), last interviewed here in 2019 by Patrick A. Howell: lareviewofbooks.org/article/nikk...

Scottish Government – deliver on your arts funding pledges Scotland’s cultural landscape is at risk of collapse, due to continued inaction and backtracking from the Scottish Government on key arts funding pledges.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s cultural landscape is at risk of collapse.

Ahead of the draft Budget on Weds 4 Dec, please sign the Campaign for the Arts petition to urge ministers to deliver on their arts funding pledges now.

www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sc...

heart and mind is still in beautiful Torino. 10/10 ✨

England still scratching its head over this complex mystery.

gena rowlands head tipped back as she speaks into a phone, captioned: do you believe that love is a continuous stream?

Dayanita's dinner for her brilliant new show last night was pretty much my dream dinner party guest list in many ways.

❤️‍🩹 it's true. Thank you.

! Have you finished Molly? How is it? Kinda intrigued but haven't actually seen it around to buy as of yet

Back in the best city for the next few days (Manchester) and there is a beautiful Dürer display at the Whitworth. Overwhelmed by seeing so many works up close with these details.

Kevin Okoth · Paper Grave: On Scholastique Mukasonga The Hutu authorities​ in Rwanda, Scholastique Mukasonga writes in The Barefoot Woman, portrayed the Tutsi as ‘...

‘In Mukasonga’s telling, the outbreak of ethnic violence seems inevitable. The penultimate chapter is called “1994: The Genocide, the Long-Awaited Horror”.

Kevin Okoth on Scholastique Mukasonga’s literary reckoning with the Rwandan genocide.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’d love to read!

Michelle Alexander on Palestine Our liberation depends upon us breaking our silences.

"Dr. King was condemned by virtually every major media outlet in America for taking this stand [on Vietnam]. Even within the civil rights movement, many imagined that he was a traitor to the cause.
And yet, we now know — deep within us we know — that he was right."

hammerandhope.org/article/mich...

Really glad to have Bluesky because I can come on here and see my feed is filled with quotes and thoughts from @hystericalblkns.bsky.social’s Alchemy Lecture yesterday.

"'Editors," [Morrison] said, turning to her day job, 'are now judged by the profitability of what they acquire rather than by what they acquire, or the way they acquire it. Acceptance of the givenness of the marketplace keeps us in ignorance.'" She resigned from Random House two years later.