#Books

corey robin

CoreyRobin

Barack Obama: "My predecessor, who I disagreed with on a whole host of issues, still had a basic regard for the rule of law." Obama is right, but perhaps not

Mr Brassington ☀️

brassoteach

Running competitions that favour children who already read for pleasure or insist on mandatory amounts of reading per week are not going to encourage other children to read for pleasure.

Erin Jean Warde (she/her)

erinjeanwarde

A thought that has been weighing on me: if a theological take can’t survive pastoral care, it’s tertiary at best to me at this point I struggle to care what

Daniel Bellingradt

dbellingradt

Early modern Europe was a paper age! Let's focus, once more, on the paper usages of a period that mastered so many communication flows on paper. Another thread for #paperhistory

David Perell

david_perell

Every time I go to somebody’s house, I sneak a photo of their bookshelf.This one’s pretty good. Here’s the bookshelf in my room. Added a couple extra recommendations too.

Horny Commie Kinkster

MsCoppelia

This is for the people who feel hopelessly uneducated & feel they can't jump in when racists appear to fight their friends.If reading dozens of books by PoC authors/other experts

Theo Nash

theo_nash

Nothing has made me more sympathetic to the 'burn it down' angle than the absolute dreck getting churned out in 'defence' of Classics.https://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/1360383180931551233 No one wants to stop readin

Tracy: Horror, please.

tracy_reads79

Book mail thread! These are fun to do, so hang in there. Up first: I bought the next two books in the Clickers series! Thanks to @shamrock_silver for sending me

nyx

EternalNyx

certain academics on this website like to think because they have a blue check they can say whatever they want and people will believe them. and they hate being called

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

It is so incredibly fitting that, if dictatorship were to come to America, it would invade under the smokescreen of neoliberal managerial cost-cutting.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/post-office-vote-by-mail.html The fascism has been

Lisa Stringfellow

EngageReaders

Teacher friends, books do not write themselves. They’re the result of someone’s labor. Thus, we shouldn’t expect them to be free.Our response to seeing this shared shouldn’t be, “OMG Amazing!”It

Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)

debreese

1) PBS is airing an "unvarnished" documentary of Laura Ingalls Wilder later this month. As I look over the materials on the site and the associated contest, it doesn't strike

Peter Nickeas

PeterNickeas

So who's gonna CQ all the sports betting influencers and local sports media. Or is this just the new normal, you don't get sports without some amount of flakking for

Laura Shortridge-Scott

DiscordianKitty

Terry Pratchett is trending. If you've never read his books, consider it. Even in 2020, few things could bring more joy into your world than the right Discworld book. Trust

Influencer Garbage

InfluencerGarb1

Here's a thread on the problem with the North American non-fiction book industry.We'll call them NFBs to save space, because what's a good non-fiction book without a few acronyms?https://twitter.com/InfluencerGarb1/status/136204

Dr. Shiva Balaghi

SBalaghi

Let me tell you a story. Something we're not supposed to talk about--not even in hushed whispers amongst ourselves. Many of the famed Islamic Art historians of earlier generations focused

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