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Eli Jelly-Schapiro
@ejellyschapiro.bsky.social
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Contemporary literature and culture in a global frame; author of Security and Terror (UC Press, 2018) and Moments of Capital (Stanford UP, 2023).
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Man...this guy played on SO many dates, lived and breathed jazz, was NEVER satisfied to be one of the all-time greats but always kept looking for the next step up & out & into the music...we will not see the likes of Jack DeJohnette again soon. Deep gratitude for a lifetime of dedication to the art
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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People do contain multitudes.
October 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
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AGAINST AI
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August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Entirely moved by this flyer, designed by my colleague @glavey.bsky.social (for a film screening hosted by our theory reading group).
August 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Great news!

Really excited to see how he develops this season.
August 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A heartbreaking, moving account.

"Everyone has their own role to play. Hopelessness at this time is a crime. One has to show moral courage to say what is happening is wrong, be it the genocide in Gaza or the transition to authoritarianism in the United States."
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 25
"Dr. Badar Khan Suri was returning home from a campus iftar on March 17 when masked [ICE] agents jumped out of an unmarked car and detained him outside his home. He had not been charged with any crime."

Our colleague speaks out in @hammerandhope.bsky.social
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July 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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You can now, at last, pre-order CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY directly from Princeton UP. It's at the printer and is likely to arrive in September, though the official pub date is October 21. Can also preview TOC and intro at this link
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Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
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July 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Absolutely superb analysis of where we're at.
July 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Once and always of the Arsenal, lover of literature and—though not remarked upon here—an elegant voice for Palestine:

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‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list
Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him
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July 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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My book now has a cover! Out from @haymarketbooks.org in November
Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy
June 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Magical little hobbit-hole wine cellars in Hercegkút, Hungary.
June 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Gerhard Richter in Munich (a wonderful exhibition of his recent drawings, and this one print—a close cousin of the work on the cover of MOMENTS OF CAPITAL).
June 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Preliminary summer reading!
June 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Farewell, Edmund White, a true original.
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died
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June 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, @parisreview.bsky.social:

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, The Art of Fiction No. 253
“Gĩkũyũ is the language I feel more. English is just what I’m used to now.”
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May 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
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May 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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My brother in conversation with Hilton Als—talking about Prince, writing as liberation, and others things.

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The Brave Heart (and Dirty Mind) of Hilton Als | Broadcast
The iconic critic and curator on Prince’s eyes, becoming one’s subjects, and writing free.
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May 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Honored to be reviewed, in such a smart way, by Sean O'Brien, a scholar whose work I really admire.

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Moments of Capital: World Theory, World Literature | Comparative Critical Studies
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May 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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a rare photo post over at my personal website jamellebouie.net/blog/2025/4/...
charleston — Jamelle Bouie
Between family and the occasional work trip I am in Charleston, South Carolina a couple times every year. During a September visit, I took some extra time to just walk around as much of the city as I ...
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April 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Read what Hossam, a 24-year-old Palestinian journalist, wrote just hours before he was killed today.

There are no words to describe the inhumanity of the times you and I are sharing.
Passage from Hossam Shabat: When I arrived on the scene, I wasn’t ready for the horror before my eyes. The streets were filled with the dead. Under every stone lay a martyr. Dozens were crying for help from underneath the rubble of their homes but there was no one to respond. Screams filled the air while everyone stood helpless. My tears didn’t stop. The scenes were more than any human being could bear. The ambulances were filled with corpses, their bodies and limbs piled on top and intertwined with one another. We could no longer distinguish between children and men, between the injured and the dead. At Al-Andalus hospital the scene was even more painful. The hospital was filled with martyrs. Mothers bid silent farewells to their children. Medical staff worked in horrific conditions, trying to treat the injured with only the most basic means available. It was an impossible situation with massive numbers of dead and wounded being brought in at a terrifying rate. Israel’s aggression continues. Massacre after massacre, leaving only the screams of mothers in its wake and the dreams of children that have turned to ash. There is no justification for this. Everything is being crushed: the lives of innocent people, their dignity, and their hopes for a better future.
March 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Really grateful for this incredibly sharp review, by Jacob Soule, of MOMENTS OF CAPITAL, in @novelforum.bsky.social. It clarified, for me, both what the book is doing, and what it's failing to do (the modes of reading it signals without itself fully realizing):

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World Theory as Reading Method
The usefulness as well as the ambition of Eli Jelly-Schapiro's Moments of Capital: World Theory, World Literature becomes fully apparent in its closing pages through the positing of two hypotheticals....
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February 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I didn't realize this was happening! Sebald on Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth, etc.

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Silent Catastrophes by W.G. Sebald: 9781400067725 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shape...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM