What we're reading this week: pieces from @nytimes.com @publicbooks.bsky.social @theatlantic.com @lithub.com.web.brid.gy @hyperallergic.com and more! pghrev.com/what-were-re...
Pittsburgh Review of Books
NEW EXCERPT in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social - So, it's time to actually sit down and write an essay for a local news outlet. How do you do it?
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On Tuesday, June 9, Assistant Professor Camille Rankine will read her work at the Hemingway's Poetry Series. Read a preview of Camille's work at the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social: pghrev.com/camille-rank...
David M. Perry
Many readers use “Best of” lists to help them decide what to read. In the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Department Head and Professor Christopher Warren shared his thoughts on how networks reveal what The Guardian's ranked list of the top 100 novels obscures. pghrev.com/networking-t...
Thanks to @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the space to reflect on a year of teaching English after the assassination of Charlie Kirk and its aftermath.
Feat. cameos from David Lynch, @sunsetandecho.bsky.social, and Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall.
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Carnegie Mellon University Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University Department of English
This week in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social: reflections on the death of Marjane Satrapi, from Associate Professor Kathy M. Newman, along with two of the students who read Satrapi’s work in her class this spring.
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In conjunction with the (In)hospitable Space Conference on our campus this week, @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social is publishing a series of pieces pertaining to space exploration, including this one by Professor and conference co-organizer James Wynn. pghrev.com/darwin-on-ma...
Today's #history article pick from Damn History, my free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @tolani-akinola.bsky.social & @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social!
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Carnegie Mellon University Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University Department of English
For the most part I often feel very small, tucked into a minor corner of the universe, hoping to find something solid to hook myself onto, a small piece of
"I am happy to report that after 33 years of working in English departments, I have been completely cured of my Anglophilia."
A lot of great stuff in this UC-Berkeley commencement address from @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, published in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Read this @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social piece by Ian Hunter, author of The Kantian Religion:
The Gurgling Cod (he/him)
Jack El-Hai
Amardeep Singh
I set out to write The Public Scholar for the same reason I started doing workshops on public writing – I felt a lot of people were speaking passionately
The events surrounding its appearance at the Tübingen seminary in the 1780s and 90s tell us most of what is important to know about Kantian philosophy as an
This commencement address was delivered to the graduating English majors at the University of California, Berkely on May 20th, 2026. Thank you to Viet Thanh
The following essay is being published in conjunction with the "(In)hospitable Space Conference" which explores the human dimensions of space exploration and
In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many
When Marjane Satrapi, the author of the best-selling graphic memoir, Persepolis, was six years old, she believed she had been chosen by God to be the next
