Kinohi Nishikawa
@kinohi.bsky.social
English & African American Studies at Princeton. President of the Bibliographical Society of America. Book history, print culture, design studies, post45.
Fun night out @lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social to watch the restored THE CAT AND THE CANARY, a comedy-horror silent film directed by a master of German Expressionism, Paul Leni. The creepy-crawly hand reminded me of Murnau's NOSFERATU. www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/the-c...
The Cat and the Canary | Lightbox
New Restoration/Co-Presented with Girls Like Horror
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November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Fun night out @lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social to watch the restored THE CAT AND THE CANARY, a comedy-horror silent film directed by a master of German Expressionism, Paul Leni. The creepy-crawly hand reminded me of Murnau's NOSFERATU. www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/the-c...
TODAY (10/30): Nan Z. Da (@jhuartssciences.bsky.social), "LEAR and the Occasion of Criticism," @princeton.edu. Coleridge, Cavell, and invoking "data" in literary criticism: KING LEAR as a test of interpretive validity. Lecture is free and open to the public. english.princeton.edu/events/inter...
Intersections Working Group: Nan Z. Da
Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear has been important to literary criticism, especially the contingent that worries about being wronged and about wronging others. It is in the discussion of Lear that ...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
TODAY (10/30): Nan Z. Da (@jhuartssciences.bsky.social), "LEAR and the Occasion of Criticism," @princeton.edu. Coleridge, Cavell, and invoking "data" in literary criticism: KING LEAR as a test of interpretive validity. Lecture is free and open to the public. english.princeton.edu/events/inter...
Insightful moment of “unselfing” at the end of DOPPELGÄNGER, where @naomiaklein.bsky.social reveals how formative Naomi Wolf had been to her authorial self-making. It’s a great twist because it suggests our ideological doubles are far closer to us in the ways that matter than we tend to admit.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Insightful moment of “unselfing” at the end of DOPPELGÄNGER, where @naomiaklein.bsky.social reveals how formative Naomi Wolf had been to her authorial self-making. It’s a great twist because it suggests our ideological doubles are far closer to us in the ways that matter than we tend to admit.
An absurdist dramedy on the wages of unemployment under late capitalism. Luc Moullet may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm very glad I got to see THE COMEDY OF WORK (1987) @lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social www.ticketleap.events/tickets/ligh...
The Comedy of Work - NEW RESTORATION
Actually a comedy of unemployment, which is defined as possibly the worst, or maybe the best, thing that ever happened to this film's group of protagonists: a middle-aged loan officer, his successful ...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
An absurdist dramedy on the wages of unemployment under late capitalism. Luc Moullet may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm very glad I got to see THE COMEDY OF WORK (1987) @lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social www.ticketleap.events/tickets/ligh...
The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities @princeton.edu will host its first student-led salon of the year: wrinkle, fold. Andrew Kensett and Sophia Millman ask, "What has drawn photographers, again and again, to the wrinkles and folds of the body?"
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IHUM Graduate Salon with Andrew Kensett and Sophia Millman
A collaborative lecture. A participatory experiment in photographic making. Our central questions: What has drawn photographers, again and again, to the wrinkles and folds of the body? And why have th...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities @princeton.edu will host its first student-led salon of the year: wrinkle, fold. Andrew Kensett and Sophia Millman ask, "What has drawn photographers, again and again, to the wrinkles and folds of the body?"
ihum.princeton.edu/events/ihum-...
ihum.princeton.edu/events/ihum-...
Wonderful! Tomorrow (10/23) Margo Natalie Crawford will deliver the 2025 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture at the Beinecke Library at Yale. Co-sponsored by the Department of Black Studies. events.yale.edu/event/2025-j...
2025 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture by Margo Crawford
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October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Wonderful! Tomorrow (10/23) Margo Natalie Crawford will deliver the 2025 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture at the Beinecke Library at Yale. Co-sponsored by the Department of Black Studies. events.yale.edu/event/2025-j...
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My fourth-year seminar, Minor Morrison, will host @kinohi.bsky.social this Monday for his lecture:
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
October 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My fourth-year seminar, Minor Morrison, will host @kinohi.bsky.social this Monday for his lecture:
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
What Comes Before the Haunting?: Toni Morrison’s Late Style in A Mercy.
Check the Qualtrics link👇🏾 to register. (And apologies for the late arrival of this announcement due to the holiday.)
Trent Walker (Michigan) delivers a wonderful talk on Cambodian Buddhist manuscripts inscribed on dried palm leaves. Part of the symposium celebrating the special collections exhibition FORMS AND FUNCTIONS: THE SPLENDORS OF GLOBAL BOOK MAKING.
October 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Trent Walker (Michigan) delivers a wonderful talk on Cambodian Buddhist manuscripts inscribed on dried palm leaves. Part of the symposium celebrating the special collections exhibition FORMS AND FUNCTIONS: THE SPLENDORS OF GLOBAL BOOK MAKING.
Really interesting inaugural workshop of a Princeton-Humboldt initiative exploring “socionarratology.” Juliana Spahr’s keynote address, which addressed the foundation and government underwriting of radical poetry in the 1960s, was characteristically provocative. socionarratology.german.princeton.edu
October 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Really interesting inaugural workshop of a Princeton-Humboldt initiative exploring “socionarratology.” Juliana Spahr’s keynote address, which addressed the foundation and government underwriting of radical poetry in the 1960s, was characteristically provocative. socionarratology.german.princeton.edu
Call for proposals: “Bibliographical Mysteries” at the Annual Meeting of the @bibsocamer.bsky.social, January 23, 2026. Panels, workshops, and creative and experimental formats are welcome. Come share your favorite stories about going down bookish rabbit holes 👉 bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26
October 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Call for proposals: “Bibliographical Mysteries” at the Annual Meeting of the @bibsocamer.bsky.social, January 23, 2026. Panels, workshops, and creative and experimental formats are welcome. Come share your favorite stories about going down bookish rabbit holes 👉 bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26
Glad to have seen Alexander Horwath’s film essay HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT (2024) @lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social. Horwath makes a compelling argument that Fonda’s career and the kinds of roles he played constitute a shadow history of the United States www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/henry...
Henry Fonda for President | Lightbox
The story of Henry Fonda, both on screen and off, is the story of the United States. It’s a story of democratic yearnings and violent shortcomings...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Glad to have seen Alexander Horwath’s film essay HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT (2024) @lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social. Horwath makes a compelling argument that Fonda’s career and the kinds of roles he played constitute a shadow history of the United States www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/henry...
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📢We are now accepting applications for the position of Executive Director of the Bibliographical Society of America.
View the full job posting📝, including application instructions, at the link below. Please share with your networks!
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View the full job posting📝, including application instructions, at the link below. Please share with your networks!
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September 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
📢We are now accepting applications for the position of Executive Director of the Bibliographical Society of America.
View the full job posting📝, including application instructions, at the link below. Please share with your networks!
🔗https://bibsocamer.org/news/job-posting-bsa-executive-director
View the full job posting📝, including application instructions, at the link below. Please share with your networks!
🔗https://bibsocamer.org/news/job-posting-bsa-executive-director
It’s lunchtime. This will make you hungry, and nostalgic — a perfect combination. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
Hong Kong’s Dim Sum Cart ‘Aunties’ Make Their Final Rounds
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September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s lunchtime. This will make you hungry, and nostalgic — a perfect combination. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
Not a fan of “pillowy” egg sandwiches, but I would go to 7-Eleven every week for a bento lunch break. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?
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September 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Not a fan of “pillowy” egg sandwiches, but I would go to 7-Eleven every week for a bento lunch break. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
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DEADLINE EXTENDED! The 2026 New Scholars application will remain open for submissions through Friday 12 September! Please share with your bookish networks.
BSA membership is not required for New Scholars Program applicants. Link in bio to learn more.
🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-new-scholars
BSA membership is not required for New Scholars Program applicants. Link in bio to learn more.
🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-new-scholars
September 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
DEADLINE EXTENDED! The 2026 New Scholars application will remain open for submissions through Friday 12 September! Please share with your bookish networks.
BSA membership is not required for New Scholars Program applicants. Link in bio to learn more.
🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-new-scholars
BSA membership is not required for New Scholars Program applicants. Link in bio to learn more.
🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-new-scholars
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Join Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, Jo-Ann Morgan, and me 5:30 on 10/2 for our conversation "Black Arts, Black Spaces, and Black Performance." This is the second event in0 the Schomburg Center's 13th season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies.
www.blackfreedomstudies.org/events/fall-...
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Black Arts, Black Spaces, and Black Performance
In this virtual event on the spatiality of Black arts and performance, Julius B. Fleming Jr. will share his work on performance and the Civil Rights Movement. Jo-Ann Morgan will discuss the relationsh...
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September 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Join Julius Fleming, La Donna Forsgren, Jo-Ann Morgan, and me 5:30 on 10/2 for our conversation "Black Arts, Black Spaces, and Black Performance." This is the second event in0 the Schomburg Center's 13th season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies.
www.blackfreedomstudies.org/events/fall-...
www.blackfreedomstudies.org/events/fall-...
As if you needed another reminder to spend some time browsing the shelves at your local charity shop, Salvation Army, or Goodwill. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/w...
A Rare Copy of ‘The Hobbit’ Is Found on an Unassuming Shelf
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August 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As if you needed another reminder to spend some time browsing the shelves at your local charity shop, Salvation Army, or Goodwill. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/w...
A terrific database for scholars and teachers of premodern critical race studies. Pedagogy videos, original essays, reading lists: a teaching-oriented, public-facing resource about why an education in the premodern humanities matters to engaging our contemporary world www.throughlines.org
Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A terrific database for scholars and teachers of premodern critical race studies. Pedagogy videos, original essays, reading lists: a teaching-oriented, public-facing resource about why an education in the premodern humanities matters to engaging our contemporary world www.throughlines.org
Comments are pretty brutal about the state of book design these days. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...
The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere
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July 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Comments are pretty brutal about the state of book design these days. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...
Congratulations to the winner of this year’s SHARP Book History Prize, Martin Paul Eve, for THESES ON THE METAPHORS OF DIGITAL-TEXTUAL HISTORY @stanfordpress.bsky.social #SHARP2025
July 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Congratulations to the winner of this year’s SHARP Book History Prize, Martin Paul Eve, for THESES ON THE METAPHORS OF DIGITAL-TEXTUAL HISTORY @stanfordpress.bsky.social #SHARP2025
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Leaders wanted!
Serving on the Council is an excellent way to build professional relationships and engage in our constantly growing community.
Nominate yourself or others by 15 August 2025 by contacting the Nominating Committee at nominations@bibsocamer.org.
#Leadership #Service #Bibliography
Serving on the Council is an excellent way to build professional relationships and engage in our constantly growing community.
Nominate yourself or others by 15 August 2025 by contacting the Nominating Committee at nominations@bibsocamer.org.
#Leadership #Service #Bibliography
July 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Leaders wanted!
Serving on the Council is an excellent way to build professional relationships and engage in our constantly growing community.
Nominate yourself or others by 15 August 2025 by contacting the Nominating Committee at nominations@bibsocamer.org.
#Leadership #Service #Bibliography
Serving on the Council is an excellent way to build professional relationships and engage in our constantly growing community.
Nominate yourself or others by 15 August 2025 by contacting the Nominating Committee at nominations@bibsocamer.org.
#Leadership #Service #Bibliography
Chris Rock’s “He speaks so well” bit from BRING THE PAIN (1996) is the only response one can have to the insult of complimenting President Joseph Boakai of Liberia for his command of English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mc7...
He Speaks So Well!
YouTube video by Aaron Bell
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July 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Chris Rock’s “He speaks so well” bit from BRING THE PAIN (1996) is the only response one can have to the insult of complimenting President Joseph Boakai of Liberia for his command of English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mc7...
A reminder of why marginalia, gift inscriptions, and little personalizations are important to the lives of books. A man in England bought several used children’s books only to discover that three had belonged to his wife (when she was a child) 50 years earlier. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
He Searched for His Past in Children’s Books. He Found His Wife’s.
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June 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A reminder of why marginalia, gift inscriptions, and little personalizations are important to the lives of books. A man in England bought several used children’s books only to discover that three had belonged to his wife (when she was a child) 50 years earlier. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
In TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES: 1991-2024 Bill Moyers didn’t report on so much as listened to the struggles of ordinary Americans trying to make ends meet over a 30-year period. Moyers did more to ground discussion of class in this country than nearly any other public figure. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Two American Families | FRONTLINE
Watch FRONTLINE's documentary filmed over 34 years, which tells the story of two families struggling to survive in a changing U.S. economy.
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June 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES: 1991-2024 Bill Moyers didn’t report on so much as listened to the struggles of ordinary Americans trying to make ends meet over a 30-year period. Moyers did more to ground discussion of class in this country than nearly any other public figure. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...