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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
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📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.bsky.social)
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🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
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First(ish) time on a (books, definitely) podcast! (I’m really shy and talking is hard). But Dan and Paul were really great to chat with and this is a subject I’m apparently really passionate about 😆
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa lithub.com/on-the-haunt...
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa
My sister and I are little—perhaps six and eight—and we are visiting my mother’s aunt. We sit in her kitchen and in between cleaning meat and asking us about school, she complains about the ghosts …
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December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa lithub.com/on-the-haunt...
Want to start a literary magazine? The original Paris Review offices are for sale. lithub.com/want-to-star...
Want to start a literary magazine? The original Paris Review offices are for sale.
George Plimpton, impresario founder of The Paris Review, has a literary legacy that keeps on giving. Now, fans of the man can peep into his old townhouse. Otherwise known as the OG offices of Ameri…
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December 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Want to start a literary magazine? The original Paris Review offices are for sale. lithub.com/want-to-star...
Booker Prize 2026 judges named ebx.sh/toyPKe
Booker Prize 2026 judges named
The judges for 2026's Booker Prize have been revealed, as submissions have opened for next year's award.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Booker Prize 2026 judges named ebx.sh/toyPKe
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
ICYMI: New Kindle Feature Uses AI to Answer Questions About Books—And Authors Can't Opt Out - Reactor reactormag.com/new-kindle-f...
New Kindle Feature Uses AI to Answer Questions About Books—And Authors Can't Opt Out - Reactor
The new feature, called Ask this Book, is already drawing controversy and unanswered questions.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
ICYMI: New Kindle Feature Uses AI to Answer Questions About Books—And Authors Can't Opt Out - Reactor reactormag.com/new-kindle-f...
20 Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Authors Pick Their Favorite Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2025 gizmodo.com/sci-fi-horro...
20 Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Authors Pick Their Favorite Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2025
io9 reached out to genre writers and asked them to share the titles they couldn't put down this year.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
20 Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Authors Pick Their Favorite Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2025 gizmodo.com/sci-fi-horro...
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds; Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle; All Tomorrows by CM Kosemen; The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson; The Witching Hour by various authors
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December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
All the New Horror Books Arriving in December 2025 - Reactor reactormag.com/new-horror-b...
All the New Horror Books Arriving in December 2025 - Reactor
December brings a curse than spans generations, a supernatural hiking trail, and a short-story collection that's murderous and mysterious...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
All the New Horror Books Arriving in December 2025 - Reactor reactormag.com/new-horror-b...
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One of my reading goals next year is to get back into poetry. I really like Joy Harjo, Erin Noteboom, and Naomi Shahib Nye. I have a few others I'd like to check out, but lmk if you have any recs!
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
One of my reading goals next year is to get back into poetry. I really like Joy Harjo, Erin Noteboom, and Naomi Shahib Nye. I have a few others I'd like to check out, but lmk if you have any recs!
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Called at the Major-General’s, about my being assessed armes to the militia; but he was abroad; and so driving through the backside of the Shambles in Newgate Market, my coach plucked down two pieces of beef into the dirt, upon which the butchers stopped the horses.
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Called at the Major-General’s, about my being assessed armes to the militia; but he was abroad; and so driving through the backside of the Shambles in Newgate Market, my coach plucked down two pieces of beef into the dirt, upon which the butchers stopped the horses.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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The Cloud Enchanters is FREE to download this week on Amazon!!
Grab a copy... please rate & review! 😘
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Grab a copy... please rate & review! 😘
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The Cloud Enchanters: Fantasy Stories (Short Story Collections) eBook : Ford, N S: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Cloud Enchanters: Fantasy Stories (Short Story Collections) eBook : Ford, N S: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Cloud Enchanters is FREE to download this week on Amazon!!
Grab a copy... please rate & review! 😘
www.amazon.co.uk/Cloud-Enchan...
Grab a copy... please rate & review! 😘
www.amazon.co.uk/Cloud-Enchan...
Just want to say
No idea what day it is
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Just want to say
Why yes, I do have a topic file about "strikes" in #Obsidianmd
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Why yes, I do have a topic file about "strikes" in #Obsidianmd
Muhammad Ali and the “Birth” of Black Digital Archive by Mark Anthony Neal medium.com/p/0532e9c48b74
Muhammad Ali and the “Birth” of Black Digital Archive by Mark Anthony Neal
It is not too ostentatious of a boast; whether Muhammad Ali “floated” like a butterfly or “stung” like a bee, he was without doubt, one of…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Muhammad Ali and the “Birth” of Black Digital Archive by Mark Anthony Neal medium.com/p/0532e9c48b74
miCRo: "Fight" by Babak Lakghomi - The Cincinnati Review www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...
miCRo: "Fight" by Babak Lakghomi - The Cincinnati Review
Babak Lakghomi's "Fight" considers the reverberations of violence across space and time.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
miCRo: "Fight" by Babak Lakghomi - The Cincinnati Review www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...
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If you haven't decided yet, watch this
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youtu.be/EfA3FzmpGFg?...
The Black Fantastic: The New Wave of Afrofuturist Fiction [EDITED]
YouTube video by Library of America
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December 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you haven't decided yet, watch this
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youtu.be/EfA3FzmpGFg?...
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Swooning, swooning over Tash Aw’s The South. His sentences are lovely. Lush and ever reaching outward. The story, intimate and grand. 😍 Read it. Buy it. It’s incredible.
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bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The South: A Novel
A Novel
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December 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Swooning, swooning over Tash Aw’s The South. His sentences are lovely. Lush and ever reaching outward. The story, intimate and grand. 😍 Read it. Buy it. It’s incredible.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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"We decided to bridge that gap by meeting people where they already are: at the bar. The idea was to take intellectualism out of the lecture hall and return it to a more organic third space—one where people feel comfortable, a little loose, and ready to engage."
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africasacountry.com/2025/12/pint...
Pints and powerpoints
From IMF history to astrophysics, Nairobi’s Drunken Lectures turn casual drinkers into an engaged public.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"We decided to bridge that gap by meeting people where they already are: at the bar. The idea was to take intellectualism out of the lecture hall and return it to a more organic third space—one where people feel comfortable, a little loose, and ready to engage."
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africasacountry.com/2025/12/pint...
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One more day folks!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
One more day folks!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!
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Kenia Thompson sits down with jazz legend Nnenna Freelon to discuss her new memoir, 'Beneath the Skin of Sorrow,' which explores her journey through grief after the loss of her husband, renowned architect Phil Freelon.
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Beneath the Skin: Finding Healing in the Season | Black Issues Forum
YouTube video by PBS North Carolina
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December 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Kenia Thompson sits down with jazz legend Nnenna Freelon to discuss her new memoir, 'Beneath the Skin of Sorrow,' which explores her journey through grief after the loss of her husband, renowned architect Phil Freelon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDag...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDag...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. - The New York Times
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
When teachers do assign whole books, they often choose from a stagnant list of classics.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. - The New York Times
Here’s hoping that Johnny Depp doesn’t ruin The Master And Margarita. lithub.com/heres-hoping...
Here’s hoping that Johnny Depp doesn’t ruin The Master And Margarita.
Pirate of the Caribbean Johnny Depp, who drifted out to sea after allegations of abuse, recently announced he’s producing an English language film based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margari…
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December 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Here’s hoping that Johnny Depp doesn’t ruin The Master And Margarita. lithub.com/heres-hoping...
Mars may once have had a much larger moon www.newscientist.com/article/2508...
Mars may once have had a much larger moon
There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas
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December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Mars may once have had a much larger moon www.newscientist.com/article/2508...