Lauren Surovi
@laurensurovi.bsky.social
asst teaching prof of Italian @Syracuse 🍊rinascimentalista / early modern theater + politics & gender, Machiavellian spectacle, Aretine scatology
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
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What was the most #bannedbook in U.S. schools in the 2024-25 school year?
Topping the list, after being banned in 23 school districts, is a 1962 novel that Time magazine named one of 100 best books of all time in 2010.
These are the 15 most-banned books in America: pen.org/banned-books...
Topping the list, after being banned in 23 school districts, is a 1962 novel that Time magazine named one of 100 best books of all time in 2010.
These are the 15 most-banned books in America: pen.org/banned-books...
Banned Books List 2025
What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.
pen.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What was the most #bannedbook in U.S. schools in the 2024-25 school year?
Topping the list, after being banned in 23 school districts, is a 1962 novel that Time magazine named one of 100 best books of all time in 2010.
These are the 15 most-banned books in America: pen.org/banned-books...
Topping the list, after being banned in 23 school districts, is a 1962 novel that Time magazine named one of 100 best books of all time in 2010.
These are the 15 most-banned books in America: pen.org/banned-books...
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"We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write."
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
September 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write."
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism” (1995)
“Freedom and liberation are an unending task.”
“Freedom and liberation are an unending task.”
Ur-Fascism | Umberto Eco
I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contra...
www.nybooks.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism” (1995)
“Freedom and liberation are an unending task.”
“Freedom and liberation are an unending task.”
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Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
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Congrats to George Saunders '88, #SyracuseU professor in @suartsciences.bsky.social, on receiving the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters!
Learn more: https://bit.ly/485Q0if
Learn more: https://bit.ly/485Q0if
September 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Congrats to George Saunders '88, #SyracuseU professor in @suartsciences.bsky.social, on receiving the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters!
Learn more: https://bit.ly/485Q0if
Learn more: https://bit.ly/485Q0if
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Jim Jarmusch's quietly humorous relationship triptych won the top prize on Saturday. The film about the relationships between siblings, and with their parents, stars Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett.
Jim Jarmusch's 'Father Mother Sister Brother' wins top prize at Venice Film Festival
Jim Jarmusch's quietly humorous relationship triptych won the top prize on Saturday. The film about the relationships between siblings, and with their parents, stars Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett.
n.pr
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Jim Jarmusch's quietly humorous relationship triptych won the top prize on Saturday. The film about the relationships between siblings, and with their parents, stars Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett.
TELL THEM NO! Click the link to contact your Congressperson and ask them to support language education in the US—
TELL THEM NO! - FY26 House Appropriations Bill Will Eliminate Language Education Programs
The House Appropriations Committee is poised to approve massive cuts to critical language education programs in its Fiscal Year 2026 Labor HHS Education spending bill. It proposes to cut $12 billion f...
www.votervoice.net
September 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
TELL THEM NO! Click the link to contact your Congressperson and ask them to support language education in the US—
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📕"expansive and groundbreaking"
In Italica Vol. 101, No. 4, @laurensurovi.bsky.social @suartsciences.bsky.social reviews "Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy" by Marco Faini. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
In Italica Vol. 101, No. 4, @laurensurovi.bsky.social @suartsciences.bsky.social reviews "Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy" by Marco Faini. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
September 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📕"expansive and groundbreaking"
In Italica Vol. 101, No. 4, @laurensurovi.bsky.social @suartsciences.bsky.social reviews "Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy" by Marco Faini. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
In Italica Vol. 101, No. 4, @laurensurovi.bsky.social @suartsciences.bsky.social reviews "Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy" by Marco Faini. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
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A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year – almost four times the government's estimate for the cost of incarceration.
Researchers say the true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize
A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year – almost four times the government's estimate for the cost of incarceration.
n.pr
June 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year – almost four times the government's estimate for the cost of incarceration.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
brilliant! I would’ve loved a pope LARP in college 🥹
@adapalmer.bsky.social
@adapalmer.bsky.social
‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
brilliant! I would’ve loved a pope LARP in college 🥹
@adapalmer.bsky.social
@adapalmer.bsky.social
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‘“Rome, Open City” was shot eighty years ago, before the war in northern Italy was even over, but it feels no less real now than it did in 1945.’
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas · Diary: Rome, Closed City
Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, released at the end of 1945. The movie begins with a version of the disclaimer...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
‘“Rome, Open City” was shot eighty years ago, before the war in northern Italy was even over, but it feels no less real now than it did in 1945.’
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas on wartime Rome: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Many of you know I've been working on the La sfera project with scores of friends for about 5 years. We were thrilled to receive support to bring it to a larger public, and crushed when we lost it when it was nearly 70% complete. We are now seeking donations to finish it
www.sferaproject.org/donate
www.sferaproject.org/donate
The La Sfera Project - Donate
On April 2, 2025, the Sfera Project PIs received notice that the federal government was terminating the $118,000 grant the Project was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in August 20...
www.sferaproject.org
April 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Many of you know I've been working on the La sfera project with scores of friends for about 5 years. We were thrilled to receive support to bring it to a larger public, and crushed when we lost it when it was nearly 70% complete. We are now seeking donations to finish it
www.sferaproject.org/donate
www.sferaproject.org/donate
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every teacher you know, have learned from, & love will lie in bed tonight & imagine how they would protect their students from a shooter. this is not the first time we’ve done this.
this shouldn’t be part of our job description. this is a nightmare.
this shouldn’t be part of our job description. this is a nightmare.
April 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
every teacher you know, have learned from, & love will lie in bed tonight & imagine how they would protect their students from a shooter. this is not the first time we’ve done this.
this shouldn’t be part of our job description. this is a nightmare.
this shouldn’t be part of our job description. this is a nightmare.
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What’s the opposite of doom scrolling?
April 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What’s the opposite of doom scrolling?
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Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent.
Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Despite Elon Musk’s Millions
Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent.
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Everyone should read this.
March 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Everyone should read this.
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The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
March 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
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A reminder that the U.S. has "always been multilingual":
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
March 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A reminder that the U.S. has "always been multilingual":
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Usa, la corsa dei repubblicani ad abbandonare l’Ucraina
https://ilmanifesto.it/usa-la-corsa-dei-repubblicani-ad-abbandonare-lucraina
https://ilmanifesto.it/usa-la-corsa-dei-repubblicani-ad-abbandonare-lucraina
March 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Usa, la corsa dei repubblicani ad abbandonare l’Ucraina
https://ilmanifesto.it/usa-la-corsa-dei-repubblicani-ad-abbandonare-lucraina
https://ilmanifesto.it/usa-la-corsa-dei-repubblicani-ad-abbandonare-lucraina
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We've updated our submission guidelines-- and deadlines:
French: January 30
Comparative Literature: March 1
Italian: March 15
Hispanic: May 1
German: September 1
See the guidelines linked below. Contact MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions @hopkinspress.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln
French: January 30
Comparative Literature: March 1
Italian: March 15
Hispanic: May 1
German: September 1
See the guidelines linked below. Contact MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions @hopkinspress.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln
MLN
www.press.jhu.edu
February 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We've updated our submission guidelines-- and deadlines:
French: January 30
Comparative Literature: March 1
Italian: March 15
Hispanic: May 1
German: September 1
See the guidelines linked below. Contact MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions @hopkinspress.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln
French: January 30
Comparative Literature: March 1
Italian: March 15
Hispanic: May 1
German: September 1
See the guidelines linked below. Contact MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions @hopkinspress.bsky.social
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln
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Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025