Cambridge Humanities Review

A journal of essays on literature, law, politics, art, architecture, music 🔆 Tweets by editorial team

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🔔🔔🔔We're delighted to announce the launch of Issue 18 of the CHR, which you can read on our website: https://t.co/2jecUVrccW

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"Queerness has come to stand for noble suffering, a heroic narrative of self-actualisation and psychological hygiene: the self-mastering individual who can name their desires." https://t.co/vjfpO6tNA5

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"Nothing prepares you for the impact of Moscow’s architecture." Harry Dadswell considers Soviet architecture in his latest CHR review: https://t.co/hMlKQuzwdF

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'The BBC’s commitment to scriptedness is a peculiar case study of how profoundly twentieth-century media was the product of its idiosyncratic policies.' Do revisit Isabelle Stuart's brilliant article on the centenary of the BBC : https://t.co/A2e5Bn6EOO

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📢We look forward to launching ISSUE 18 next week, with articles on filmmaker Joanna Hogg, Muscovite architecture, and post-internet sonnets!📢

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"I love cats for the same reason I love analytic philosophy: both manage, quite improbably, to pair playfulness with viciousness" - @rachelefraser reviews two new books about cats. Read here: https://t.co/oYK7oetPbn

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"Part science fiction novel, part workplace ethnography, The Employees is a portrayal of our future beyond Earth that is equal parts sexy and depressing" - William Fleming reviews a new novel by @OlgaRavn. Read here: https://t.co/dmAav4hyWC

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"I love cats for the same reason I love analytic philosophy: both manage, quite improbably, to pair playfulness with viciousness" - @rachelefraser reviews two new books about cats. Read here: https://t.co/oYK7oetPbn

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Calls to 'decolonise' art history in the UK is growing. Is such a thing even possible? Edwin Coomasaru @ecoomasaru asks the question. Read here: https://t.co/4mIS3rOVGV

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"Part science fiction novel, part workplace ethnography, The Employees is a portrayal of our future beyond Earth that is equal parts sexy and depressing" - William Fleming reviews a new novel by @OlgaRavn. Read here: https://t.co/dmAav4hyWC

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Calls to 'decolonise' art history in the UK is growing. Is such a thing even possible? Edwin Coomasaru @ecoomasaru asks the question. Read here: https://t.co/4mIS3rOVGV

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Did you see the latest Adam Curtis film? William Burns has reviewed it for us, arguing that "we might see the work the film does as primarily an emotional one". Read here: https://t.co/rH351J2nzx

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Did you see the latest Adam Curtis film? William Burns has reviewed it for us, arguing that "we might see the work the film does as primarily an emotional one". Read here: https://t.co/rH351J2nzx

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We're delighted to announce the publication of our summer issue, featuring articles on sweet peas, Barbara Pym, conspiratorial documentary-making, feline philosophy, Michel Foucault and much more besides!

Free to read now at:
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In our new issue, Dr Jesse Harrington reviews the latest edition to the Cambridge History of China, a "superb achievement". Read here: https://t.co/iGQPQiXOTD

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"Hardwick was not a mere stylist – after all style is easily reproducible; her work – the essay itself – is grounded in the kind of thinking that she believed could not be taught"—@jesslcotton on a new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick. Read here:

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In our new issue, Dr Jesse Harrington reviews the latest edition to the Cambridge History of China, a "superb achievement". Read here: https://t.co/iGQPQiXOTD

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"Hardwick was not a mere stylist – after all style is easily reproducible; her work – the essay itself – is grounded in the kind of thinking that she believed could not be taught"—@jesslcotton on a new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick. Read here:

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"The seeds pictured here were stolen from the gate of John Clare’s cottage at Helpston...But is it really stealing if you take what overhangs the garden gate? Can you steal in a garden?"—@kilbridean on loneliness, literature, and sweetpeas. Read here: https://t.co/zAxlX6RZZZ

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"Pym’s genius is in knowing how people misunderstand and mislead, and in drawing such moments from behind the veil of social form – essentially, in violating tact"—Dr Rey Conquer on the inimitable Barbara Pym: https://t.co/B7gKJ5KJsi