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Brilliant take by Irina Dumitrescu on the current attack on the humanities - prepare to be shaken to the core!

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NBCC member @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social wrote about about novels about the publishing industry for @thetls.bsky.social:

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"Leave it to Bavaria to stoutly defend its white sausage, which, served in broth with only a pretzel and sweet mustard as accompaniments, renders a plate tellingly pale. Currywurst is inauthentic, impure, spicy and colourful." Petits Propos Culinaires irinadumitrescu.com/wp-content/u...

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www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Apropos of nothing, a reminder that the French Olympics sent us a very subtle message about the divine right of kings.

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Friends, creativecritical.net is now on Bluesky! It's an online journal and resource co-edited by Thomas Karshan, Gabriel Flynn, and myself, dedicated to bridging the gap between creative and critical practices.

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From our archive: 'Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic' by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social

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Hello, Bluesky! We are a website for writing, research, and teaching that explores the relationship between creative and critical practices. To give you a taste, here's one of our most popular posts: @vijaykhurana.bsky.social rewriting a passage from Joyce's The Dead. Please share!

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"Prison art offers a twist on the question of what is to be done when great artists have troubling pasts. In a sense, all of the artists Tobola works with have already been judged guilty." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/door...

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NBCC member @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social wrote about a 13th-century romance's depiction of a government takeover for @thetls.bsky.social:

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"...the real problem with romance is that it is the one genre that makes it impossible to ignore women’s desire." @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

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“This is how it is in the diaspora—you find a group of people with the same cultural references, the same irrational nostalgia, the same tastes and traumas.” Acest eseu nu reușește să mă facă să mă doară inima. Language as a form of connection, of othering, of belonging. Read this ASAP!

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"By cultivating our sensitivity to ourselves and to others, we escape another destructive modern myth: that we are separate from other people, and that we can live well without caring for them." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/b...

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”Conveying the experience of living under communism is a challenging task. There was a guardedness in everyday life that is hard to get across to those who have not lived in a police state.” —Irina Dumitrescu

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NBCC member @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social reviewed Lea Ypi's "Free: Coming of Age at the End of History" for the @nybooks.com:

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"If the study of literature or history were really that pointless, a government trying to control the minds of its subjects would not go to the trouble of putting humanities students and professors in jail." @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social www.zocalopublicsquare.org/frivolous-hu...

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I could relate so much to this - although I'm the first generation immigrant, i.e. the parent in this

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This is beautifully written - I felt the echoes of my experience speaking English with my kids. I always say ‘die Muttersprache ist die Sprache des Herzens’ and I’m so glad my kids were able to communicate fully with their grandparents.

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Oooh

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“We whose first years were shadowed by communism know that change is inevitable but not always for the good, that revolutions trumpet progress but usher in more violence.” —Irina Dumitrescu

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Fascinating and beautiful

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"When I write in Romanian I do not have to fight to keep my sentences short. I have no way to make them long. Trying to write in Romanian, I arrive, without effort, at the simplicity that I long for in English." @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2021/10/12/t...

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HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY out in the wild! Many thanks to @sebfalk.bsky.social for the photos. Seb also read Draft no. 1 and provided super-helpful feedback. 1/2 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #HAMH

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"Writing is not now considered a collective exercise. The Romantic myth of the lone genius persists... The black and white author photo is this myth’s icon, the desk its fetish object" @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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"When the City’s new mayor was elected last year, she had herself photographed on her knees buffing a brass plaque. It must be very satisfying to make things gleam again, and the brass plaques can’t refuse the solicitude." Dalhousie Review ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...

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"The only thing the men of Beowulf succeed in leaving behind is war. Its poet knew this, knew that kings grow old and foolish, that splendid civilizations go up in flames, and that every victory is hollow and provisional." @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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We had elections like that back in Romania, I think the classier move was to make it a 99% triumph, so as to suggest it was a free election

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Well worth a look and a subscription if you can afford it: Kelly has done some really innovative work in BC public history and has great thoughts on the subject! #bchist #cdnhist #publichistory #glams

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I am so happy to see my dear friend @berlinreified.bsky.social's new book reviewed, and linked to right on the front of the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social website! asterismbooks.com/product/maxi...

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Incredible poem

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"Perhaps all writing is like lucid dreaming: sufferers of trauma may feel helpless, even voiceless, in the face of their memories, but as authors they are in charge of the narrative." @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...

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