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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · Aug 10

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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Animist Poetics

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · Sep 11

I wrote this blogpost for @sunypress.bsky.social about the process of writing my book, Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is out now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/An...

Animism, in Theory

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · Aug 29

Can’t not be excited about a COVER! An “if you know you know” kind of design, and otherwise, elegant suggestion. So grateful yet again to the talented team at @princetonupress.bsky.social.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · Jul 16

Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · Aug 14

to cherish cuteness is to honor the most gentle part of your being
a plush rabbit next to a real one

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Aug 14

@ryantopper.bsky.social hi 👋🏾

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Jul 31

@lizzyattree.bsky.social 💖💖💖 youtu.be/WM7-PYtXtJM?...

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (Live) (Official Video) [HD]

YouTube video by Fleetwood Mac

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jul 1

“I wasn’t in Paris to avenge my postcolonial trauma but that wasn’t NOT on the table, either.” Benedict Nguyen on (re)learning the colonizer’s language.

Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Relearning the Colonizer’s Language

Moving to Paris made my cheeks hurt. After a decade since I’d last worked in France, I found myself back in the land of one of my ancestors’ other colonizers. My Broca’s area could still conjure th…

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Charlotte Wood @charlottewood.bsky.social · May 13

Sigrid Nunez, a writer I have admired and whose books I've loved for a long time, has included my novel in her New Yorker list of recommendations and now I want to read every one of them.

Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint

The award-winning author of “The Friend” explains why some of the recent books that she admires most are ones in which not much happens.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · May 12

‘This is Helen Garner! A woman fluent in French, who compares translations of Rilke for fun. Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman.’

Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on the Australian novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Anne Enright · I stab and stab: Helen Garner’s Diaries

The diaries filled me with nostalgia for all the bollocks we had to listen to back in the day; the interminable wrangle...

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Mar 29

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Mar 29

'Outdoor concerts took place against the stink of burning flesh.'

Caroline Moorehead: How was it possible to play for people on their way to the gas chambers?

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba | Book review

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Mar 28

Written on the Body

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Feb 24

‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’

Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind

This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Feb 22

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Feb 15

In his 1962 essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” James Baldwin dissects the mentality of white Americans: “not only overt racists but the sort likely to be well-meaning readers of The New Yorker,” Kevin Young writes.

Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Feb 15

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Feb 14

Steamy reading recommendations for Valentine's Day...

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · Feb 10

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
— the Creature in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Wednesday Toast @wednesdaytoast.bsky.social · Feb 10

name THE hardest line in all of fiction.

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Feb 10

@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social I’m chuffed you showed up on my timeline- mutual friends, perhaps?

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · Feb 9

‘when she was writing The Vegetarian, mysterious joint pain made the physical act of typing impossible. …

After Human Acts was published, Han was surprised to discover that readers also felt pain reading the novel.’

‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

With protests on the streets of Seoul, the celebrated writer talks about the painful process of uncovering her country’s brutal past - and how it felt to win the Nobel prize

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 13

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec12

Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅

My hand holds the book The Cost of Living.

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Feb 10

@halfbook.bsky.social omg! I was thinking about you recently! Catch up soon xxx