Just wrapped up a week of inspiring and packed seminars, conversations, and a lecture with Douglas Mao, who was in @ox.ac.uk as Astor Visiting Lecturer. Thank you to @duncanbell.bsky.social, who has co-authored Utopias with Doug, forthcoming from OUP, and who brought even more brilliance here.

Chapeau to the soul who put the Jamaican flag to cover the profusion of St George flags in the Headington Roundabout. ❤️ 🇯🇲

Shy camera

This essay is out in the world! Huge thanks to John Alba Cutler and Marissa López (editors of Latinx Literature in Transition, v2) for giving me the chance to imagine this kinship between two greats.

Winter by the sea

One of our great new titles coming out this month is "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaina Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
https://buff.ly/4gNvyns

The great Cristina Rivera Garza will deliver the next Richard Hillary lecture at Trinity College, Oxford (Thursday, 6 Feb). Book your tickets here: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/public-event...

Crisp morning

The ginormous carousel on Broad Street. Not sure if Oxford City Council got their tape measures out when they planned this one.

A cinematic celeriac

I suddenly have a lot of company here!

Martí at Museo Finlay, Havana

Brandenburg Tor