Category Archives: Literature

Books, Gardens, Literature, Podcasts, Reviews

Shakespeare & Company: Author Rebecca Solnit On Her Book ‘Orwell’s Roses’

Audio January 20, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

On the podcast this week, the extraordinary Rebecca Solnit discussing Orwell's Roses, her fresh and revolutionary take on George Orwell as an avid gardener.
Apple: https://t.co/teTAJkxzPq
Spotify: https://t.co/NgSKzJLaEG
Patreon:https://t.co/MpzpnjW5Sb @GrantaBooks pic.twitter.com/t1nwb4ErRf
— Shakespeare&Company (@Shakespeare_Co) January 20, 2022

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – January 21

January 19, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @KieranSetiya on David Chalmers; Adam Sutcliffe on Tokarczuk’s Books of Jacob; @616Clifford on Obama’s presidency; poems by Thomas MacGreevy, discovered by @ArringtonLauren; @GoingMedieval on the Black Death – and more pic.twitter.com/G1SEQ0aUCF
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 19, 2022

Literature, Magazines, Politics, Previews, Uncategorized

Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – January 24

January 17, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: https://t.co/ZzqCDz90SZ pic.twitter.com/AVxUDDhUAE
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 18, 2022

Books, Climate Change, Environment, Literature, Reviews

New Books: ‘Literature For A Changing Planet’ By Martin Puchner (2022)

January 13, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

Join #PrincetonUPress author, @martin_puchner at the @bostonathenaeum for an in-person discussion of his latest book, Literature for a Changing Planet on January 18, 2022 at 12:00PM ET. For more information and registration, see below: https://t.co/A0eM7ACv7C pic.twitter.com/8YspTw6yDT
— Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s (@PrincetonUPress) January 11, 2022

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – January 14

January 12, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring T. H. Breen on the American Revolution; @ae_stallings on Edna St Vincent Millay; @agnesjuliet on the medical mistreatment of women; @JC_Scutts on love; @LamornaAsh on The Matrix; @judecook_ on twins – and more pic.twitter.com/Hs1LX6wMwV
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 12, 2022

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – January 17

January 10, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s cover, “King Arrested for Loitering, 1958,” by @RonaldJWimberly. #NewYorkerCovers https://t.co/ASahFxN7g4 pic.twitter.com/JmmX7xVbAm
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 10, 2022

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – January 7

January 5, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @NabeelahJ on British Muslims; @NickHoldstock on surveillance and detention in Xinjiang; @lucyamcdonald on irrationality; @kassiastclair on colour; @littlemaddles on comedians – and more pic.twitter.com/rSV3b159xS
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 5, 2022

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Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – January 3, 2022

December 27, 2021 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

The cover of this week’s issue, “Shelter,” by Anthony Russo. https://t.co/dfeLU7HkmN pic.twitter.com/Gj9wVw2Rb1
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 27, 2021

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Previews: London Review Of Books – January 6, 2022

December 22, 2021 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

Our 1st issue of 2022 is also our 1001st ever!!

Details to follow of how we’ll be marking the start of our 2nd chiliad.

For now, @pawboy2 on @solangeknowles, @TriciaLockwood on Knausgaard, @neepmail on @COP26 & Bennett’s 2021 diary. Cover by Ann Dowker.https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr pic.twitter.com/qKqmMhLVM9
— London Review of Books (@LRB) December 22, 2021

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – December 24

December 22, 2021 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

A festive double issue of @TheTLS, featuring Anne Rowe on Iris Murdoch’s Christmas; an essay by George III, discovered by @DavidRArmitage; @koehlercooks on Proust and YSL; @wmarybeard on Peter Fiennes’s journeys through Greece; @misbehavingmonk on Diane Di Prima – and more pic.twitter.com/YsLVBETzGD
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) December 22, 2021