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Karakter - Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap @karakterasl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Podcast | Waarom is James Baldwin opnieuw zo populair? Dr. @removerdickt.bsky.social (KUL) analyseert de recente 'Baldwinmania' en wat die ons leert over wat literatuur nu precies 'groot' maakt. Een tijdloze kwaliteit of net een tijdige inzetbaarheid? open.spotify.com/episode/20ae...

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James Baldwin – dr. Remo Verdickt

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 05/05/2026

What's notable to me about the Alito-Jackson spat on Monday is how little Alito's opinion bothers with anything resembling legal analysis. He doesn't respond to Jackson, in any meaningful sense. It's just an angry blog post about how she really ought to be more respectful to him.

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Samuel Alito Had No Answers For Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Latest Dissent

The more transparently political the Court’s work becomes, the more fiercely the conservative justices insist that there is nothing political about the Court’s work.

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

1.35 hour meeting with Cărtărescu and his translator into Dutch Jan Willem Bos moderated by my Belgian friend Remo Verdickt. In English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuF_...

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Mircea Cărtărescu: Master of Modern Surrealism

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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Emiel Roothooft en ik konden ons geen mooier begin voor 2026 inbeelden dan de publicatie van ons interview met Mircea Cărtărescu in De Nederlandse Boekengids. Mulțumesc aan Mircea en dNBg! www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20260113-emi...

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Emiel Roothooft & Remo Verdickt | Een interview met Mircea Cărtărescu

De Roemeense auteur Mircea Cărtărescu schreef met Theodoros een instantklassieker. Op die Nobelprijs is het nog minstens een jaar wachten, maar de Roemeen blikt zowel voor- als achteruit. In dit inter...

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

5-star review of Theodoros by Remo Verdickt in De Standaard

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Congrats to Laure Hinckel for winning Le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 for her corruscating translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros! actualitte.com/article/1273...

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Laure Hinckel remporte le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025

Porté par ATLAS, l’Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire, le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles, doté de 5000 €, a été...

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 04/11/2025

“What [Dick Cheney works] to preclude is any acknowledgment that the issue at hand, whether it is avoiding military service or authorizing torture, might have a moral or an ethical or even a self-interested dimension that merits discussion.” —Joan Didion

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Cheney: The Fatal Touch | Joan Didion

It was in some ways predictable that the central player in the system of willed errors and reversals that is the Bush administration would turn out to be its vice-president, Richard B. Cheney.

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients! www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...

A paperback copy of "Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon" on a wooden desktop.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Daniel Pérez Castrillón @mangrii.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Super interesante entrevista👇🏻

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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

James Baldwin Review vol. 11, our special issue on 'European Baldwins,' is out now! @jbrjournal.bsky.social Read Justin Joyce's editorial preface on the American conundrum here: www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal... The entire volume is available here : www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

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René Aguigah @aguigah.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Feeling so honored to be part of this issue of James Baldwin Review, with an Interview on „James Baldwin. Der Zeuge“, thanks to @removerdickt.bsky.social 🙏🏾 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

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James Baldwin Review @jbrjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is proud to announce the publication of its eleventh volume with thanks to the extraordinary collaborative vision of three European guest editors: Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco. #JamesBaldwin www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

Cover art for JBR Vol 11, featuring James Baldwin's US passport. courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The #JamesBaldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal, bringing together work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin Volume 11 is now available to buy as a paperback bit.ly/46gAHlK Find out more about our brand new series #ThinkingWithJamesBaldwin bit.ly/3KAncol @jbrjournal.bsky.social

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James Baldwin Review - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of James Baldwin Review by Douglas Field

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Nicholas Boggs joins #LARBRadioHour to talk his new biography. “James Baldwin: A Love Story” offers an intimate portrait of the literary legend anchored by the romances that shaped his life, writing, and political vision. lareviewofbooks.org/av/nicholas-bog…

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Nicholas Boggs’s “James Baldwin: A Love Story” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Eric Newman speaks with Nicholas Boggs about his monumental new biography, James Baldwin: A Love Story.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Due to popular demand, we’ve unlocked this episode for public consumption.

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Trump Brings the War Home [UNLOCKED]

Podcast Episode · 5-4 · 08/08/2025 · 58m

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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I wrote about MAGA's idiosyncratic readings and brazen weaponizations of the Western canon. Buckle up for a bumpy ride from Curtis Yarvin's Tlön to Gustavo Petro's Macondo. Part of JTAS' special issue "Reflections on the US 2024 Elections in a Global Context." escholarship.org/uc/item/1199...

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No Country for Illiterate Men? Reading Western Literature in the Wake of November 5

Author(s): Verdickt, Remo | Abstract: This essay reflects on the 2024 US presidential election in light of the conservative movement’s increasing conflation of fact and literary fiction. Recent mobili...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Happy 101st Birthday #JamesBaldwin! We’re celebrating by announcing the launch of our new series: Thinking with James Baldwin The series explores new approaches to Baldwin’s work, incl his fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, interviews & activism manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/think...

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Brenda Lelie @brendalelie.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"Het bed met de gouden poot is tegelijk een ideale introductie tot de Letse cultuur en een tijdloze vertelling die uitnodigt om verder na te denken over hoe de geschiedenis zich misschien niet zozeer herhaalt, als wel steeds gekleurd wordt door ons eigen referentiekader." @removerdickt.bsky.social

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Zigmunds Skujins’ ‘Het bed met de gouden poot’: 500 pagina’s uitstekende literatuur ★★★★☆

Eindelijk is er een Nederlandse vertaling van Zigmunds Skujins’ Het bed met de gouden poot. De imposante familiekroniek is tegelijk een ideale introductie tot de Letse cultuur en een tijdloze allegorie.

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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This week’s episode is Mahmoud v. Taylor, where the Court held that some children’s books are just too gay for public schools.

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Mahmoud v. Taylor

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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I wrote about the underground circulation of James Baldwin translations in the USSR and Francoist Spain by way of the missing link between Baldwin and Jorge Luis Borges. Featured in Revista Ártemis' special issue Inqueerir a tradução: sexualidades, línguas e textos periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/ar...

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Borgesian Baldwin: Giovanni’s Room , “The Aleph,” and Queer Translation Practices | Revista Ártemis

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"Throughout Fielder’s oeuvre, a lifetime in TV is betrayed by the ease with which he can slip into virtually any mode of contemporary filmmaking." Paul Thompson reviews Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-becam…

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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Together with Pieter Vermeulen, I co-wrote an essay on James Baldwin's posthumous career for Parallax's special issue on Literature and Public World-Making. Here's an eprint link for 50 free online copies of the article! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F78UK...

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Afterlives of the Literary: James Baldwin’s Posthumous Publics

Published in Parallax (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)

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Karakter - Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap @karakterasl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

In de herfst van zijn carrière begon James Baldwins reputatie te tanen. Honderd jaar na zijn geboorte is hij echter relevanter dan ooit. Waarom? Lees de analyse van @removerdickt.bsky.social (KU Leuven). 🔗 www.tijdschriftkarakter.be/voorbij-de-d...

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Tijdschrift van wetenschap biedt een etalage op recente vernieuwingen in de internationale wetenschap

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This has been my most ambitious piece of writing so far. It's long. And I will be working on a much shorter version for a wider audience. But I also don't want to lose sight of the deep truths lurking around us. So, here is The Plot Against America. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

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The Plot Against America

How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America

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