Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyFitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026June: PLATONIC LOVE by Mieko Kanai, tr. Polly Barton THE MAN ON THE BRIDGE by Günther Anders, tr. Caroline Schmidt THE FALL OF ALBA by Jonathan Buckley 001
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 29/09/2026Little Apple, a story of revenge centered around the Russian Civil War is a good example of Leo Perutz's particular magic, his pure narratives. There is always something pulling the reader along but never quite within reach. neglectedbooks.com/?... 2214
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyFitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We are pleased to announce our Spring/Summer 2027 Catalogue: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/catalogues/fitzcarraldoeditions.comCatalogues | Fitzcarraldo EditionsReleased biannually, catalogues outline our forthcoming publications. Spring catalogues include titles publishing between January and July, and Autumn catalogues include titles publishing between Augu... 13411
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyRobert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wrote about the time Jacques Rivette made a medieval hangout movie for @criterion.bsky.social Currents: www.criterion.com/current/post...criterion.comJacques Rivette Envisions a More Human Joan of ArcAnchored by an extraordinary performance from Sandrine Bonnaire, the epic historical drama Joan the Maid strips away its saintly protagonist’s mythic aura and gives us a humbler, more intimate version... 193
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you've never seen Margaret Tait's film-poem based on a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I suggest you take six minutes to treat yourself today. I wrote about why I think it works so well here.someflowerssoon.substack.comLatch or Catch or KeyOn a beautiful film of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem 48120
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyCharles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Happy publication day to this new banana, issue 4 of The Little Review. I'm in here, on Reznikoff - translated into Polish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, but zero in print in the UK until Testimony from CBe next year. 093
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyRichard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Rarewaves currently has a big ol' 2 for £16 Blu ray sweet deal on a bunch of cool labels, including the great Second Run. Here are some of my favourite bangers they've put out over the years... (Post not sponsored by Rarewaves or Second Run, but it should be) www.rarewaves.com/collections/... 65612
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyNick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Never in British political history has so much money been donated by so few” Piece from me on a question that isn’t asked often enough: What does the crypto industry want in return for the extraordinary sums it is giving Farage?nickcohen.substack.comNever has a British politician received so much from so fewWhat crypto wants from Farage 99427
Reposted by Jonathan Buckleywordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026On the art & concrete poetry of the monk Dom Sylvester Houédard hyperallergic.com/dom-sylveste...hyperallergic.comThe Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine MonkDom Sylvester Houédard, friends with the beatniks, littered his texts with references to god and prayer, and had a peculiar sense of humor. 2225
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.pcmag.comApple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance NightmareApple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment. 321053495
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyAdrian Nathan West @anathanwest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Got a cover for the new book, coming out in the UK in March from Thousand Horsemen Press. 262
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The unfettered pleasures of Pieter Bruegel's marvelous Children's Games of 1560: an entire town taken over by children at play. Today is Bruegel's day. 422049
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyKaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 27/07/2026For the afternoon crowd, on the blog today another stunning new release from the wonderful @twistedspoon.bsky.social 📚💙 073
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance 3923951157
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Two tier policing. Arrest retired folk peacefully protesting genocide in Gaza. Allow right wing thugs to block streets and ports. I know which group presents the real threat to democracy and the so-called “British way of life”, which these vigilante bullies preposterously claim to be defending. 12391142
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleySam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy 1641009189
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It is outrageous that any international funding is given to this genocidal project but Ben Gvir in particular is an enthusiastic human rights abuser and should be under arrest. 2329
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyDavid Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 29/08/2026www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...standard.co.ukPrince Charles Cinema vows to go 'all the way' to stay open as court battle loomsBen Freedman, the cinema’s owner, told The Standard that the legal process has been ‘very long’ and frustrating’ 13921
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Brexit Britain is still a tinderbox. New post starting the 11th year of my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with analysis of a long, hot summer of Brexit stasis & dishonesty & the reasons for it, Clacton, the Arday case & the culture war: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/brex... 11199106
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyMark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026Stunning realisation of Messiaen’s visionary Saint François d’Assise at the Salzburg Festival seenandheard-international.com/2026/08/stun... 1134
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyDorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . . 319378
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyJ.C. Kælin @jckaelin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026#OTD #TDIH #August22, 1928: #HBD #KarlheinzStockhausen! #Composers #ElectronicMusic #ControlledChance #AleatoryTechniques #GesangDerJunglinge #JeanShepherd #TheBeatles #ADayInTheLife #Revolution9 #ItWasAFakeMoustache #PeopleOnTheCoverOfSgtPepper #ExperimentalMusic #MusicSkyyoutube.comKarlheinz Stockhausen -- Gesang Der Jünglinge KontakteYouTube video by Tamarata Record 071
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21/08/2026In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here: neglectedbooks.com/?... 67625
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Apparently this is the list of British films included in the booklet accompanying the British Citizenship test. Unfortunately, if familiarity with the films on this list is one of the criteria for being a British citizen I think we're going to have to deport everyone under the age of 50. 79961200
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18/08/2026Paul Metcalf’s Apalache is, in its unique way, the Great American Novel — if you accept that the Great American story is that of the destruction of Eden and its inhabitants and their replacement by a spirit of exploitation enforced through violence. neglectedbooks.com?p=8588 2315
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyMark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Delighted to be interviewed by @susannacrossman.bsky.social for the online launch of How Do People Stay the Same. A few places left!! 083
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyJeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Four journalists. Four journalists. 1256
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyOrange County Review of Books @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“Serra’s fine book affirms that Malaparte in exile or in retreat does not write a masterpiece like Kaputt. And masterpieces are all that count.” — @ericdbyrd.bsky.social on Maurizo Serra’s biography of Curzio Malaparte (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/ocreview...open.substack.comMalaparte: A Biography by Maurizio SerraReviewed by Eric Byrd 032
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyMatthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 11/08/2026For the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about W.G. Sebald and how Austrian literature shaped him as an academic and writer of fiction: clereviewofbooks.com/wg-sebald-si...clereviewofbooks.comOne Misfortune After Another: On W. G. Sebald's "Silent Catastrophes" - Cleveland Review of BooksAn impressively miserable lot, to be sure, but once Sebald advances from the general to the particular, distortions emerge in his gloomy but picturesque vision... 03310
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleySteve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Just discovered this 1990 BBC Bookmark documentary on Gert and Michael Hofmann I saw at the time. But hang on, is that a young Rory Stewart at 0.54? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gTY...youtube.comBookmark Gert and Michael Hoffman 1990YouTube video by Shaun Belcher Writes 021
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyMatthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 31/07/2026Far be it from me, etc ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 023
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyMatthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 27/07/2026Read it all. It’s short, but it’s a book that matters ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 082
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyPaul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Years ago I enjoyed poems by JH Prynne. His death moved me to read him more systematically. A revelation. I encountered anew the rigour & abandon, brio & determined care, utter originality & deep rootedness in literary history that constitute a truly vocational poet. Here is my thread-essay 1/104 33713
Reposted by Jonathan Buckleytits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Charles Reznikoff finally coming into print in the UK thanks to CB editions! can’t wait: 061
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyN u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The Editor of CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social Charles Boyle (pictured below) would like to get more books into bookshops & readers' hands. If you're a bookshop, or a reader, please order directly from him to make him smile! Please share this post. . . www.cbeditions.com/books.html 0209
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyDavid Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 18/07/2026W.S. Graham reading 'The Nightfishing' on BBC Third Programme, original broadcast in 1952. Via the treasure trove that is @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe8...youtube.comPoetry Archive and the BBC - W S Graham - 'The Nightfishing'YouTube video by Poetry Archive 02711
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyPeter Schöttler @pschottler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The best orbituary everyone should read. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...newleftreview.orgSanjay Subrahmanyam, Trespassing — SidecarCarlo Ginzburg (1939-2026). 0217
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyJames Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A short piece on Handke's fascinating 1970 novel, which continues to be misunderstood as the story of an affectless murderer, à la Camus's The Stranger. I'm interested characters who do not give us full access, perhaps because they can't. jameselkins.substack.com/p/characters...jameselkins.substack.comCharacters with parts of their minds missing, 5: Complex mental states masquerading as flat affectPeter Handke’s The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick 052
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Parsing Farage’s démarche farce. A day earlier than usual, new post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on what little Brexit news there is but mainly on Farage's 'resignation' and the deeper issues of defining democracy and of cryptocurrencies: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/pars... 714581
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyTom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026RIP Tony Rayns He deeply enriched my love & appreciation of Asian cinema which I then passed on to my film students for decades. This fascinating 3 hour interview will do the same for you. Pt 1 youtu.be/p8PEzzKsatE?... Pt 2 youtu.be/6Fgu7M6NOOs?... Pt 3 youtu.be/YkI8p7wmvIE?...youtu.beTony Rayns in Conversation: Part One | THE CINEMA OF IDEASYouTube video by Independent Cinema Office 3329
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyRadiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Very sad to hear about the passing of Tony Rayns. He was invaluable to the appreciation and understanding of Asian cinema and a champion of many filmmakers, the world and home ent. industry are poorer for this passing. He will be greatly missed. 09127
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyMark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026boulezian.blogspot.com/2026/07/muni...boulezian.blogspot.comMunich Opera Festival (4) - Die Walküre, 1 July 2026Nationaltheater Images: Monika Rittershaus Siegmund – Joachim Bäckström Hunding – Ain Anger Wotan – Nicholas Brownlee Sieglinde – Irene Robe... 182
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026On the now-classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition, and its influence in the field of microhistory:thereader.mitpress.mit.edu‘The Cheese and the Worms’: Carlo Ginzburg Launches MicrohistoryOn the now-classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition, and its influence in the field of microhistory. 0185
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyCharles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Reznikoff: the CBe July newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/07/news... 2199
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyZoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Ten years on from the referendum, Brexit didn’t settle Britain’s biggest argument, it made it louder. My essay for @theleaduk.bsky.social on how Brexit’s broken promises built the conditions for Farage’s comeback, and why nobody’s blaming Brexit for any of it open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...open.substack.comFrom Leave to Reform: The decade that destroyed British politicsBrexit was meant to settle Britain's deepest political divide. Instead, it paved the way for Nigel Farage's return 812047
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Brexit ten years on: unsettled and unsettling. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on the connections between Starmer’s resignation & the referendum anniversary, and why that anniversary isn’t a commemoration but an episode within the ongoing saga: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/brex... 1115480
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 26/06/2026'The mysterious achievement of Prynne’s later poetry is that its total impenetrability is identical with its strange generosity.' Lovely (and generous) tribute to JH Prynne's poetic strangeness here by Ben Phillips www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...nplusonemag.comThe Expansiveness, the New Air | Ben PhilippsIt’s like he saw it coming. “The Numbers,” the first poem in the vast first volume of the Poems of J.H. Prynne, opens: The whole thing it is, the difficult matter: to shrink the confines down. Prynne ... 1226
Reposted by Jonathan BuckleyTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave 321576396
