Interesting article about many deservedly forgotten pieces of literature. I read a number for my MA history dissertation, and they were pretty much uniformly dreadful. William Le Queux in particular - overwrought, sensationalist, chauvinistic dreck.
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Meta: “Winning schools is the way to win with teens,” 2018;
Google, 2020: “investing in schools helps onboard kids into Google’s ecosystem;”
In 2015, YouTube noted that watch time went up on weekends & that “increasing usage in schools M-F could decrease this gap!”
Some timely *Obsession*-themed humor from the Onion:
PETA Billboard Falsely Assumes Man Wouldn’t Eat His Cat
Omg lol
“If I cannot have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan,” T.J Clark, Farewell to an Idea
Happy to have this new little essay on JSTOR Daily, "The Evolution of Britain’s Invasion Fiction." Please check it out and share it or pass it on if you find it interesting! Let's make Lieutenant-Colonel George Chesney’s "The Battle of Dorking," a viral sensation of 1871, trend again...
“The effort to destroy Black political power in the South is among the greatest betrayals of Black Americans, and those who have voted alongside them, by the federal government in living memory”
Thank you Ted Chiang!!
“Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document, you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one, you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time”
Thanks to @saraivry.bsky.social who commissioned it!
Ivan Kreilkamp
Ivan Kreilkamp
Ivan Kreilkamp
Luke Parks
Ivan Kreilkamp
How fears of foreign plots and national decline moved from nineteenth-century novels into today's thrillers.
