Denis Johnson’s Desperate, Poetic Horrors newrepublic.com/article/2060... via @newrepublic.com
13.02.2026 10:06
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Denis Johnson’s Desperate, Poetic Horrors newrepublic.com/article/2060... via @newrepublic.com
Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.
The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.
Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...
#envhist #envhum
A heavy music festival in Blackfeet Nation this summer was abut more than just music – it was a protective ceremony to shelter Indigenous youth from suicidal distress.
buff.ly/aQQC7EX
A black-and-white photograph showing a young man holding up a newspaper titled "The Ottawa Journal" with the headline "WAR MEASURES ACT INVOKED" and subheadlines about hundreds of police on Quebec streets and the nation being laughed at. The background features a city street with buildings, trees, and several people walking or standing.
On this day in 1970, the War Measures Act was implemented during the October Crisis. It was the first and last time it was implemented during peacetime. It remained in place for a month.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2020/10/10/t...
Went to see billy woods and DJ Haram at Strange Brew. Wrote about it for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
Grey flyer with black text
Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.
"Let your eyes adjust to the single candle in the church. Do not look away from the black-glass lenses of Good Stab. And be ready to listen with an open heart."
@mcflycahill90.bsky.social reviews The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones:
reactormag.com/book-review-...
A color photograph of the Hood nuclear test, showing a large orange-red mushroom cloud, its top still glowing, rising from the desert floor, a large dust cloud billowing below.
Today in 1957, the United States conducted Shot HOOD—a reduced-yield, 74-kiloton thermonuclear test—even as the Atomic Energy Commission insisted H-bomb tests were not taking place at the Nevada Test Site due to concerns over radioactive fallout. HOOD was largest-ever atmospheric test in Nevada.
Bill Callahan Live Reviewed: “35 years after his now-staggering career began, he has never been more fully, satisfyingly present.”
19 albums in, former Smog man transforms his remarkable body of work at East London show. Read MOJO’s review and the setlist in full...
Around the time of Dragon Boat Festival with Chu poetry near our minds, it's a good time to consider the mythos of the Kunlun Mountains. snowpavilion.co.uk/the-mythos-o... #culture
🚨New Episode Alert🚨
This month we talk w/ historian @collthrush.bsky.social about his new book "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (@uwapress.bsky.social 2025) - one of the best books I've read in a long while, I read a lot of books!
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-e8h3e-...
How one UK learned society put values before dollars.
Rupture between American studies association and US embassy highlights choices facing academia, says Michael Collins.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
blackstar is the single most impressive artistic accomplishment this century. guy gets diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and goes to the studio the same day to make a final artistic statement, sticks the landing, releases album timed to coincide with his death.
Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier showing the clemency paper signed by President Joe Biden, allowing him to go home after 49 years of unjust incarceration.
After 49 years incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, today Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier is finally going home to the Turtle Mountain Reservation. He never lost hope and kept his spirits high.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes
#portrait #LeonardPeltier
I've got another list of the environmental history worth reading that you may have missed last month! Here's December 2024:
niche-canada.org/2025/01/16/e...
#envhist
