Read @c21literature.bsky.social special issue “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Denise Wong, Arin Keeble, alice and Dr. Melissa Schuh: c21.openlibhums.org/...
Our new issue—13.1 (Summer 2026)—has just opened! Featuring Tommaso Villa on the contemporary sports novel, Frankie Hines on waste and _White Teeth_, and review essays by Yian Zhu and Mortada Haidar
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1941/i...
🗣️ New Article! Cynthia Quarrie, 'Helen Oyeyemi’s Exquisite Corpses: Race, Authorial Multiplicity, and Aleatory Play in Boy, Snow, Bird'
doi.org/10.16995/c21...
📚 New Review Essay: Svetlana Stefanova on Kaisa Kortekallio’s Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic (2024)
c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Open Library of Humanities
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
This essay uses the multivalent analytic framework of ‘exquisite corpse’ collage as a way of reading Helen Oyeyemi’s 2015 novel, Boy, Snow, Bird. Starting with a scene in which two characters produce ...
This essay is a review of Kaisa Kortekallio’s Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous,...
'A leading US civil rights scholar has urged Birmingham City University (BCU) to reverse its decision to close its black studies course, comparing it to the attack on diversity, equity and inclusion in the US.' 1/3
A busy June upcoming!
I'll be at York Festival of Ideas on the 7th of June: yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda...
And then the London Library on the 12th: www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/361...
This is about as comprehensive as things get. Would love to know what - if any - pushback it could receive from those representatives of the system itself. But maybe there aren’t any left. Even VCs would agree with much of it www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Let's end the week by celebrating our next @ojcollective.bsky.social library member - we are thrilled to announce that University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums has joined us!
Edinburgh has a budget surplus
"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."
What is it that so fascinates us about the places where writers live and create? Join writer Katie da Cunha Lewin as she dismantles the familiar furniture of the writer’s room and opens it up to view.
'Strategic plans have become so expansive and aspirational that they cease to guide choices. When almost every goal, value and aspiration is declared a priority, the plan cannot resolve the inevitable conflicts that real resource allocation involves.
This is not a trivial failure.'
Natalia Cecire
Natalia Cecire
Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw warns Birmingham City University’s decision part of extremist campaign that has ‘travelled across Atlantic’
'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3
A decade of shocks has left higher education working conditions feeling like one firefight after another. For Doug Specht, leadership decision-making must recover some degree of strategic calm A decad...
