Sharmila Sen
@_sen_sharmila
Mama x 3. Author of NOT QUITE NOT WHITE (Penguin). Ed Director @Harvard_Press. Former Harvard Eng prof. I eat champions for breakfast.
First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now. jenheemstra.com/book
My book was reviewed in The New Yorker! It is absolutely jaw-dropping and surreal to type that sentence. Thank you to Margaret Talbot at @NewYorker for such a thorough and delightful write-up of WHISKEROLOGY! newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
"A sweeping new history explores...hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion." Sarah Gold McBride's WHISKEROLOGY reviewed by Margaret Talbot in @NewYorker! @sgoldmcbride @Harvard_Press newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
“I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.” —Jorge Luis Borges buff.ly/lGE4pBP
What do Zohran Mamdani, Charli XCX, and Kash Patel have in common? This October, we'll publish the authoritative, firsthand account of Uganda's tragic postcolonial fate by @mm1124. Introducing Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State. Uganda…
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
Oh, this looks fun — Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America @Harvard_Press hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…
Why don’t we go over proofs together more often? Authors, please let us do this and please wear socks worthy of the occasion as Joyce does in the photo below. I promise to procure a nice rug and squishy sofa. And wear a suit, if you wish.
Eugène Jolas and James Joyce going through proofs of "Finnegans Wake," 1938.
Sunday harvest from the kitchen garden. Eggplant & green chillies for dinner tonight. Basil for Tuesday’s pesto pasta. I’ve made & followed a weekly dinner menu for 18 yrs. It started because one of my kids has ASD & likes predictable routines & planning ahead. I do too!!
Jacket reveal for two @Harvard_Press books publishing in the winter of 2026! A WORLD OF RESISTANCE: INDIA AND THE GLOBAL ANTIBIOTIC CRISIS by Assa Doron and Alex Broom FRICTION: A BIOGRAPHY by Jennifer Vail
Trying to get hold a copy of every Latin text by Petrarch. Fun project, still a long way to go.
Here’s a terrific, prize-winning history of Gujarati Muslim global migrations published recently by @Harvard_Press 👇🏼 hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…
Zohran's father Mahmood Mamdani, who came from a Khoja merchant family, was exiled. Yet, unlike most Ugandan Asians, he chose to go back. scroll.in/article/108454… He set up an institute, which provided rigorous social science training to Ugandan researchers trying to improve…
“A masterful history of the rise and decline of the Catholic Church’s most distinctive sacrament.” @matthewschmitz reviews For I Have Sinned by James O’Toole for @ReligPolitics:
The greatest change in Catholic life since the 1950s has been not the introduction of the new Mass, nor the declarations of Vatican II, but the virtual disappearance of confession.
'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet', by John Berryman; 1st US edn. illus. Ben Shahn, which Edmund Wilson saluted as 'the most distinguished long poem by an American since T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land".' If only someone would publish an annotated edition of this masterpiece!
Such a pleasure to hand @christinajcross the first finished copy of her first book this afternoon when she stopped by the @Harvard_Press office.
'The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany wilfully created impossible circumstances; that was how they functioned.' Francine Hirsch: Impossible moral choices in wartime Smolensk the-tls.com/history/twenti…
Hey book nerds, this one's brilliant and topical and a pleasure to read. Out 8/5 from @Harvard_Press: hup.harvard.edu/books/97806749…