New Eng Rev of Bks

New England Review of Books publishes & promotes literary commentary, news, and new writing. An amplification platform. Edited @zakbos, published @penandanvil.

[The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress]

Recently, one of our marketers discovered that Amazon does not allow "queer theory" to be included as a keyword in enhanced product descriptions (the fancy graphics you sometimes see at the bottom of a book page on Amazon).

[Verso Books Guild US @VersoBooksGuild]

🧵 The situation in Brooklyn is not so different. For a full year, we've been bargaining for a contract that delivers decent wages and work conditions for workers at this leading independent publisher. Here's an update…

[Marcela Valdes @valdesmarcela]

For ⁦@NYTmag⁩, I spent a year reporting this article about the problematic history of diversity in book publishing and the ways it has affected editors, authors and what you see (or don’t see) in bookstores https://t.co/8vgWhwquYm

[Roomy Naqvy @roomynaqvy]

Miguel Angel Asturias's Nobel Speech 1967 https://t.co/I2u1PkD43t well worth reading. @rohinik @jennybhatt @Mahmud_writer @saliltripathi @Saumyakul #books @NobelPrize

[And Other Stories @andothertweets]

#TheVisitors in the paper!
"@JezewskaJ's novel inspects the ways in which reality can be affected by abstractions: the stock exchange, energy reserve or the dark web. But C, the protagonist, is more concerned about the hallucinatory gnome in her flat."
https://t.co/UGBScV6cys

[Zócalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare]

"Once you conclude that your house of faith is built on sand, you might as well demolish it and start digging in order to find bedrock so you can build anew."—Prof Alec Ryrie, on the history of athiesm. https://t.co/vIeGtIDKNf

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

'The recent discovery that I had appropriated passages from Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War (2017) in my novel The Dogs without realising I had done so...'
EXCUSE ME, WHAT
https://t.co/ujdsyNyqg5

[Christiana Spens @ChristianaSpens]

"How fragile and arbitrary so many of our connections and connotations are..."—my review of Commuters by Toby Christian & Aftermath by @PretiTaneja for @TheLondonMag
https://t.co/hhOkFDic5R

[lauren nelson @animalguilt]

for @LAReviewofBooks, I reviewed Olga Ravn’s The Employees and fantasized about human/AI solidarity. https://t.co/siuD71eGn9

[Jake Romm @jake_romm]

“The function of good art – and by extension criticism practiced as an art – is to render its audience unfit to serve as an extraction site for the cultural killing machine.”

Incredible article. Immediately buying this book.

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"Nearly all higher education leaders have accepted the duty to repress the contradiction between neoliberal economics and racial justice." "Broke" exposes the UC system as a textbook example of structural racism, @cnewf writes. https://t.co/LqtIImEgmP

[SOLRAD @SOLRAD_mag]

Today on SOLRAD, Angela M. Sánchez has a wide-ranging essay featuring the past, present, and future of Mesoamerican stories and representation in comics and other media.
@_AngelaMSanchez
https://t.co/5dZ20uMjet

[Kathleen Ossip @KathleenOssip]

Poets: Different people need all different kinds of poems. Someone needs yours.

[Dr Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado @drdawnmiranda]

My piece on Irish women writers and 'likeability' is in today's @dubreviewbooks - it is a case study of recent examples of coded misogyny in literary criticism targeting Sally Rooney, Anne Enright, Edna O'Brien & Anna Burns. Read it here: https://t.co/Q6Fx5XaFwQ

[Brent Ameneyro @BrentAmeneyro]

Well, it's official, I start as the Book Review Editor for @LAReview in February! Send me your book reviews and interviews: Indie, emerging, poets, hybrid, and everything in between, please and thank you.

[Catapult @CatapultStory]

⭐️ THE WORLD AS WE KNEW IT: Dispatches from a Changing Climate, edited by @ingredient_x and @tajjaisen, receives a starred review from @PublishersWkly! ⭐️

This anthology of essays is "a moving mix of resolve and sorrow."
https://t.co/GDtQYgUe5g

[New Eng Rev of Bks @nerobks]

@duxfeminafacti9 How did this go?

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

“Wolf Point,” the second Cayne adventure, charts a tale of corruption and double-dealing that will ring depressingly familiar to anyone who follows Chicago politics.

#NewcityLit #Newcity https://t.co/H7J9mKYN2u