Simon van Schalkwyk
the-next-corner.bsky.social
Simon van Schalkwyk
@the-next-corner.bsky.social
I'm pleased to announce that my first book, "Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War: Containment, Leakage, Anarchy" will be arriving this September via @bloomsburyacad!
August 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've really enjoyed reading the essays on "Wild Possibility" in this special issue of Comparative American Studies. Thanks Wendy McMahon and Rebecca Tillett for all your hard work on this!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Wild Possibilities’: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene: Part 1
This special issue of Comparative American Studies explores the literatures of the American hemisphere and their engagement with Anthropogenic climate change. The complex and contentious histories,...
www.tandfonline.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Some news...
January 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Sayonara, Nazi.
January 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sounds like Thomas Pynchon's Nefastis Machine.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/a630...
Scientists Built the First Engine Powered by Entanglement—Not Coal or Oil
It's as wild as it sounds.
www.popularmechanics.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:16 AM