Huw Nesbitt
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Huw Nesbitt
@huwnesbitt.bsky.social
· Feb 28
For the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
An *armada* of groove. A vast fleet of armed ships, and what they’re armed with is groove.
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
An *armada* of groove. A vast fleet of armed ships, and what they’re armed with is groove.
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Lászlóóóóóóóóóóóóóó!
October 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Lászlóóóóóóóóóóóóóó!
The big question nobody is answering yet is: Is John Tottenham Spurs or Arsenal??
September 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The big question nobody is answering yet is: Is John Tottenham Spurs or Arsenal??
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L’intervista: “Nonno Camilleri ormai cieco mi ha dettato l’ultimo libro. Recitava, era teatro”
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/02/news/andrea_camilleri_intervista_nipote_arianna_mortelliti-424821039/?rss
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/02/news/andrea_camilleri_intervista_nipote_arianna_mortelliti-424821039/?rss
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
L’intervista: “Nonno Camilleri ormai cieco mi ha dettato l’ultimo libro. Recitava, era teatro”
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/02/news/andrea_camilleri_intervista_nipote_arianna_mortelliti-424821039/?rss
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/02/news/andrea_camilleri_intervista_nipote_arianna_mortelliti-424821039/?rss
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Last of the Famous Blogosphere Playboys
June 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Last of the Famous Blogosphere Playboys
Scam emails warning of scam emails—that's the kind of meta-ruse I can get behind
May 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Scam emails warning of scam emails—that's the kind of meta-ruse I can get behind
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
My first book is out on 27 May with @mitpress.bsky.social. It offers a media history of the power to intercept communications in Britain from the foundation of the Post Office to the (near) present, and the changing relationship between law, sovereignty, and media.
April 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
My first book is out on 27 May with @mitpress.bsky.social. It offers a media history of the power to intercept communications in Britain from the foundation of the Post Office to the (near) present, and the changing relationship between law, sovereignty, and media.
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
The Birthday Boys
April 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Birthday Boys
Why must they grow the basil used in tinned tomatoes in rubbish tips, plague sites and nuclear dumps?
March 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Why must they grow the basil used in tinned tomatoes in rubbish tips, plague sites and nuclear dumps?
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
Here's someting from me that has been a long time in the offing.... A long read on the pernicious effects of social mobility blackspots
Thank you to @theleaduk.bsky.social for granting me the space to tell this complex story
national.thelead.uk/p/i-left-and...
Thank you to @theleaduk.bsky.social for granting me the space to tell this complex story
national.thelead.uk/p/i-left-and...
"I left and never went back": The rural towns that offer no way up
Many people living outside of cities feel left behind as the lack of opportunities widens the gap between town and country life.
national.thelead.uk
March 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Here's someting from me that has been a long time in the offing.... A long read on the pernicious effects of social mobility blackspots
Thank you to @theleaduk.bsky.social for granting me the space to tell this complex story
national.thelead.uk/p/i-left-and...
Thank you to @theleaduk.bsky.social for granting me the space to tell this complex story
national.thelead.uk/p/i-left-and...
Still not convinced by Silent Catastrophes's plodding tone, but @briangdillon.bsky.social makes a good point here that I hadn't considered. "[T]his book is full of strange and tender moments when Sebald’s feeling for his subject".
Before he was a novelist Sebald was a straight scholar. What insight into his enigmatic literary oeuvre can we ascertain from these newly published essays? artreview.com/silent-catas...
‘Silent Catastrophes’ by W.G. Sebald, Reviewed
Before he was a novelist Sebald was a straight scholar. What insight into his enigmatic literary oeuvre can we ascertain from these newly published essays?
artreview.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Still not convinced by Silent Catastrophes's plodding tone, but @briangdillon.bsky.social makes a good point here that I hadn't considered. "[T]his book is full of strange and tender moments when Sebald’s feeling for his subject".
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
Here's a small, 15-year-old scoop: I found a 2010 guide on how to beat the far right written by Morgan McSweeney. Since he's now Keir Starmer's chief of staff, I used it to assess what Labour is doing to beat the far right in 2025.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk
Daniel Trilling · Short Cuts: Labour’s Immigration Policy
www.lrb.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Here's a small, 15-year-old scoop: I found a 2010 guide on how to beat the far right written by Morgan McSweeney. Since he's now Keir Starmer's chief of staff, I used it to assess what Labour is doing to beat the far right in 2025.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk
Reposted by Huw Nesbitt
Watching Severance back to back with BBC's The Apprentice as a form of embodied critique
March 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Watching Severance back to back with BBC's The Apprentice as a form of embodied critique
For the first time in my life… a coldsore cream actually worked…
March 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
For the first time in my life… a coldsore cream actually worked…
RIP to a real one
Får höra att Peter Cornell har gått bort. En viktig konstvetare som kunde konsten att skriva om konsten.
Porträtt målat av Ulla Wiggen, 1972.
Porträtt målat av Ulla Wiggen, 1972.
March 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
RIP to a real one
Gary Indiana on bumping into Janis Joplin during the Sixties
March 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Gary Indiana on bumping into Janis Joplin during the Sixties
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For the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
February 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
For the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
For the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
February 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
For the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...