The History of Literature Podcast

holpod.bsky.social

13 October 2026 16:51

What does it mean to live a good life? In this episode, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to translator Robin Waterfield and scholar John Sellars about their new edition of Aristotle's classic text. #books #literature #aristotle @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social

Yesenia Barragan, she/they

yeseniabarragan.bsky.social

13 October 2026 16:51

IT’S COMING!!!! 😮😮😮 We are nearly a MONTH away from the publication of my new book IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY on @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social! I’ve never been prouder of a book I wrote.

Because Language (becauselangpod)

becauselanguage.com

13 October 2026 16:51

New episode! It's okay to play with punctuation. Florence Hazrat tells us about the history of the marks we use, and who the heavy hitters were. @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social Book here: books.apple.com/us/book/on-t... Episode here: becauselanguage.com/148-on-the-m...

Elisabeth Braw

elisabethbraw.bsky.social

13 October 2026 16:51

Out today in the US. (Last week in the UK with a slightly different title - The Undersea War - and very different cover. The privilege of having two publishers and two creative teams!)

Adam Becker

adambecker.bsky.social

09 October 2026 17:43

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.