I got to talk with Maria Lipman about my book last week. Check it out!
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!
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!
They even made it Book of the Day here: youtu.be/LfeVB3biL0o?...
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
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...
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.
Another reminder that it’s worth thinking about dissent in as many ways as possible these days.
Resistance is always possible
