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John Raimo
@johnraimo.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe (PhD., NYU). DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Mostly history, literature, & arts here; desperately trying not to post political content yet here we are now.
This is just too good. All of it. Even the title. (As someone who worked in publishing, I can assure you all that this was a case of the author absolutely insisting on it against the editors' judgment.) Just amazing. #JohnFetterman
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Essential reading for educators as well as historians of reading (PDF): Effective Reading Instruction in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, World Bank, and @unicef.org) documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Who doesn't adore Wikipedia? As regards powerful figures, sometimes documentation alone is wonderful. Cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Ferry
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Gottfried Benn und Nele Benn, Briefwechsel 1930–1956 (Holger Hof und Stephan Kraft, Hrsg. @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535952...
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This looks lovely: Friedrich Hölderlin and André Butzer, Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (Taschen, 2025): www.taschen.com/en/books/art...
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Vu à la librairie Tschann (pour @anthonyglinoer.bsky.social ainsi que @stuartelden.bsky.social) ....
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
En gros, Sarkozy a été condamné à vivre comme un étudiant à l'université .... www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers...
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is personal now (h/t @infinite-milos.bsky.social):
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Good look for the NYT:
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This guy (who not incidentally looks like a thumb)! Just "asking questions"! Because "Interesting Times" with the NYT imprimatur!
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
PDF - Kai Sina (@ksina.bsky.social), Der kurze Weg nach Westen: Biermanns Seitensprüng (@ideengeschichte.bsky.social, Heft XIX/4 Winter 2025; #skystorians): www.wiko-berlin.de/fileadmin/Da...
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Posters by Niklaus Stoecklin (Swiss, 1896–1982; Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Three Posters by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden (1887–1938; Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Je viens de voir ça. En ai-je besoin ? Non. Est-ce que je le lirais tout de suite (ou en entier) ? Probablement pas. Est-ce que je le veux ? Absolument. www.la-pleiade.fr/Catalogue/GA...
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
No, but careers do.
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Formidable, comment un auteur étranger peut être accueilli à bras ouverts dans une autre culture (Librairie Compagnie, Paris) :
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Paola and Rossella Colombari, Carlo Mollino: The Sensuality of Form / Carlo Mollino. Architetto designer fotografo (Rizzoli / Mondadori Electa, 2026/2025; #skystorians, #photography): www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9788891... and www.mondadorielecta.it/libri/carlo-...
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Just impossible to make this stuff up at this point; cf. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Carolyn Russo, The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight (Smithsonian Books, 2025; #Skystorians): www.smithsonianbooks.com/store/art-ar...
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It's worth reading Mary McCarthy's 1986 review of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." Not for how she misjudges its achievement but more for what McCarthy, a brilliant writer and intellectual, couldn't see—and to judge how far America has come since then. #Skystorians archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sibylle Bergemann, Das Denkmal (Kerber Verlag, 2025; DE/EN/FR, #skystorians, #photography): kerberverlag.com/de/buecher/s...
November 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A thought:

What's going to happen to all of the augmented electricity production infrastructure once the AI bubble bursts? Supply is suddenly going to far outpace demand from what I can tell, and I'm wondering what may happen apart from decreasing prices (which would be hugely welcome in any case).
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Stephen Crane, The Upturned Face (via @libraryofamerica.bsky.social; #skystorians; drawing of a dead soldier, mid-nineteenth century; black, white chalk, graphite on gray-green paper by Ange-Louis Janet Lange [1815–1872], courtesy of Cooper Hewitt): storyoftheweek.loa.org/2025/10/the-...
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Marcel Proust et Gaston Gallimard, Lettres retrouvées: 1912-1922 (édition de Pascal Fouché ; Gallimard, 2025 ; #bookhistory, #skystorians) www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/le...
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM