Columbia University Press

columbiaup.bsky.social

14 October 2026 16:48

"[FOREST IMAGINARIES] offers a tour de force study of the politics and poetics of the forest in African literature." — Farah Bakaari, Mix tape buff.ly/36uNV5J

Farah Bakaari

bakaari.bsky.social

13 October 2026 20:55

editors at revered, refereed journals: we allow AI in service of equity because not everyone has the resources to write well in this beautiful difficult and god-anointed medium called the english language. me: showing up to english-only boarding school at age 13 without a word of english.

Ria Banerjee

ria4983.bsky.social

12 October 2026 16:52

Reading is dead but on this Long Island Rail Road train I'm reading Doireann ní Gríofa, Ray has Kafka open next to me, the woman in front has the New Yorker, the fella across the aisle is midway through Brothers Karamazov and his pal by the window has preserved their privacy by choosing a kindle

Los Angeles Review of Books

lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

12 October 2026 16:22

"One feels, in the noisy blankness left by the white space, Long Soldier absorbing the pain of past and present at once." Valerie Duff-Strautmann on two new books of poetry by Layli Long Soldier and Beth Piatote: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/layli-long-soldier-we-beth-piatote-distant-water

Dan Sinykin

dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

12 October 2026 15:03

It is SO exciting to see how the work begun more than a decade ago, even before "The Program Era and the Mainly White Room" in LARB, work that's led to endlessly useful essays, like "Who Gets to Be a Writer" in Public Books, is now out as the book Crowd Control cup.columbia.edu/book/crowd-c...