Timothy Bewes

A superb conversation between Tariq Ali and Jean-Luc Mélenchon: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… via @newleftreview

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW SubStance Volume 54, Number 1, 2025 (Issue 166) Special Issue: Tree Guest Editors: Nathalie Dupont & Thangam Ravindranathan tinyurl.com/2nwsmdhp

This Friday at Brown University: Film-Thinking • Miklós Jancsó, “The Round-Up” (1966) Screening & conversation with Timothy Bewes (English | Brown), Stuart Burrows (English | Brown), Ágnes Matuska (English | University of Szeged), and B.K. events.brown.edu/cogut/event/30…

Helpful advice for Republican members of Congress on today's NY Times letters page.

Continue to grapple with the implications of this extraordinary passage, from 1972 (but reprinted in Inventions of the Present):

🔥 Join us for the 2024 edition of the Political Concepts Conference—Our Unavoidable Present! The New School for Social Research, October 4-5🔥

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory has published a selection of pieces on Lukács, including mine on Lukács and James Baldwin. Thanks to @art_bueno and @Simon_G8888. Free to read here: tandfonline.com/eprint/ZGM3WX9…

Such an absolute privilege and joy to produce this programme. Tune in tonight at 9 😍

Remembering James Baldwin on what would have been his 100th Birthday 💜 Tune in on Saturday from 9pm, where guest host Ashley Henry will take a look at the writing and music influences of one of the 20th century’s great writers and civil rights activists. 📻 | #JazzFM

In addition to my statement, here is my video message about the appalling presidential debate! “Is America addicted to self-destruction?” #PresidentialDebate2024 #TruthJusticeLove

Film-Thinking presents a screening of “Sacrificed Youth,” a 1986 drama directed by Nuanxing Zhang, April 15, 6–9 pm, at the Granoff Center. A conversation will follow the screening. Read more: bit.ly/3TD71ck #Film #FilmStudies #EastAsianStudies

Of course, one longs to be reviewed by scholars of the stature of @1MichaelLucey. And to have the opportunity to respond is a dream. Thanks to Genre @DukePress. “Secondary Utterances: A Response to Michael Lucey” is available now. doi.org/10.1215/001669…

Beautiful Monica Popescu, gone too soon, too young. I will miss my most generous, vibrant, brilliant friend. Her intellectual legacy of reinventing Cold War studies thru incisive interpretations of African literature is an extraordinary loss. Rest in peace & power ❤️🌹

#NEWonSRB: Drawing on insights on literary criticism, @joshuatbarnes argues that recent developments, such as autofiction, should serve to remind us that the novel, fiction, and realism are distinct categories despite their historical convergence. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/maximal…

Looking forward to this Just in Time session on MLA on Coetzee's The Pole -- in 45 minutes!!! mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meeti…

Here’s my somewhat lengthy @NewLeftReview essay about the stakes of contemporary political criticism — why we might want (or be forced) to interpret narratives, via the work of Fredric Jameson, Timothy Bewes, Rita Felski, postcritique and the ‘method wars’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/a…

The Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (DVjs) has a new issue to mark its 100th anniversary. I'm so pleased to be in it. My article is titled "The Novel as a Challenge to the Concept of Literature": rdcu.be/dq7dH

Check out two new posts on #EH from emerging scholars re: race, colonialism, and capitalism! Shouhei Tanaka on energy decolonization: energyhumanities.ca/news/energy-de…. Marah Nagelhout on toxic prisons: energyhumanities.ca/news/toxic-pri… #envhist #justice #ClimateActionNow #academic #books

"For in the knot of the dread, those forms of suffering are our own." Janine Jones' Dreadlocked Logics of Impossibility—paired with an artwork of the author—is now out on Political Concepts! politicalconcepts.org/dreadlocked-lo…