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Having had to try one makeshift household fix after the other, I'm glad to know there's a proper awful-sounding name for it. Beats "yankee ingenuity" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...

Through a diverse collection of essays, "Sick Architecture" studies the aesthetic, spatial, cultural, and material histories of illness and health to illustrate how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204968... @eflux.bsky.social

From humour to history to heartbreak, and from satire to sci-fi to surreality, here’s everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Would love to read something on why Berlin’s neon, despite being Ury Lesser- and generally Weimar-famous, did not end up in a Neon Museum of the sort that Prague or Warsaw have. Can’t be just regime change or quick changes of ownership

Lovely conversation about nostalgia for Berlin’s vanishing neon signs, and the extent to which their reliance on handwriting made them both very local and personal, “hand-touched” www.theauflauf.com/p/jesse-simo...

Endlich auch als gedrucktes Buch da. Perfekte Strandlektüre 🌞🍸🍒

It’s only “elitist” if you’re an anglophone hegemon, fuck that

🔥 People should give less of a damn about recommending books in English—bring it all on. Also, love the breathlessness of this!

we asked berlin's hottest what they're reading this summer

What is frustrating about the new interest in the 'classics': Republicans are actively redirecting taxpayer funding to promote un-scholarly, right-wing versions of humanistic study in public university 'civic centers,' while Democrats remains uninterested in taxpayer funded humanistic education.

Fire thunderstorms after wildlife fires sound as terrifying as fire storms after bomb air raids, and more powerful (via FT)

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Those who dismiss Warhol as merely artist of Campbell's Soup Cans are likely unaware he spent a decade as a commercial illustrator before becoming a Pop artist in 1960s. That's where he learned many techniques he would later use; note similarity of color/B&W split between ad & later Marilyn painting

LACK, the lacanian conference that lacks an acronym, invites anyone interested in exploring the philosophical and cultural implications of psychoanalytic theory join us march 11-13 at UVM; CFP due October 1 lackorg.wordpress.com/2027-confere...

“Authors can register their books to use a “Human Authored” logo on their back cover”. Like crafts of the industrial era, manu factum—and, just like those craftspeople, most book authors still won’t be able to live off their work giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Brazilian authorities blocked two senior U.S. officials from traveling to the country next week, concerned that the visitors planned to sow doubt about the security of the nation’s voting systems, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials.

while on hiatus for the summer, we are accepting submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts ... general submission guidelines are linked here, more specific instructions for the various sections follow ... minorliteratures.com/submissions/

Der Islamismus braucht die AfD und die AfD braucht den Islamismus. Beide sind sich darin einig, dass Frauen, Queere und andere einfach weniger wert sind. Beide nehmen dankbar an, dass ihre Mitglieder durch den anderen radikalisiert werden.

Books are not military targets, but according to the Ukrainian Book Institute, Russia has destroyed more than 1.5 million Ukrainian books in July alone.

Just to think that the US could have not started the senseless war against Iran and sent missile interceptors to Ukraine when it was at a turning point in Russia’s war against it, saving lives and getting closer to ending another senseless war