Happy to see the @newyorker.com got the description right. We’re in the middle of an outright assault on Higher Ed.
Trump’s vindictive and illegal campaigns to destroy the best of our society are not “crackdowns,” they’re assaults, attacks, onslaughts.
Red Migrations has received an honourable mention by the American Comparative Literature Association for the 2026 René Wellek Prize!
Congratulations, @bgorski.bsky.social and @dr-tg.bsky.social!
Learn more about the book: bit.ly/47aPhet
#SovietHistory #EasternEuropean #MigrationStudies
Then he loaned me his bike for a year when we were in Budapest. I climbed the Buda hills on a Nobel Laureate’s bike. Wild!
Great news! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Irina Denischenko brought him to the Harriman Institute when we were grad students at Columbia and I got to spend some time with him. Such a glorious kook and a great writer!
Thank you! These are great! Can’t wait to dig in!
For @thetls.bsky.social I wrote about the conflicted legacies of the Soviet empire in modernist culture and contemporary literature
Books reviewed by Nariman Skakov and Tamar Koplatadze
Thanks to Rebecca Reich for the invite!
www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
Would love to read yours too! Do you have anything at the sharing stage on the Czech book world? I likewise know little about the world outside of Russia but I’ve been talking to a few people who work across the post socialist world. My next project will likely be more comparative
Another reminder that it’s worth thinking about dissent in as many ways as possible these days.
Resistance is always possible
They even made it Book of the Day here: youtu.be/LfeVB3biL0o?...