BASAS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2025 BASAS Book Prize. Congratulations to the shortlisted authors! View the shortlist: basas.org.uk/news-events/ba…

Hono(u)red and excited to be in London next week, and to be giving (gulp) 5 talks on Thursday. Here is one of them. Liam Delaney Adam Oliver lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/12…

Final call for our lunchtime seminar with Professor Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein will talk about handling free speech on campus. IALS Dec 5 at 12:00. Book now to reserve your place 👇 buff.ly/3ZoHMwZ

At MarxMemorialLibrary listening to Julia Cagé presenting fascinating new joint work with Thomas Piketty — warming up for our major UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies event tomorrow! 🎊

The New Yorker named The Right to Oblivion one of the best books of 2024!

📢 We're delighted to welcome Cass Sunstein tonight! The The New York Times bestselling author will discuss #FreeSpeech in universities. #LSEEvents 🎟️ For ticket-holders only. More info 👇 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/12…

In The Times and The Sunday Times, James Marriott rounded up the 8 best thought and ideas books of 2024. We're delighted to see Born to Rule by Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman on the list! thetimes.com/culture/books/…

We’re feeling festive! Our two newest Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library books are 30% off through Harvard University Press with code HOL24 through December 31. Get your copies: domedieval.org/books/the-life… domedieval.org/books/the-old-…

Our next Books of the Year picks come from David. His BotY is the new definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s letters ‘my desert island book. Maroon me now!’ Find out more about that, and the rest of David’s picks here: lrb.me/m13

🎧 Hear Sam Friedman (Sam Friedman) from LSE Sociology chart the enduring influence of private schools in the making of the British elite on The Guardian's Today in Focus podcast. theguardian.com/news/audio/202…

For more than two decades, Theresa Betancourt has studied Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers. Her new book Shadows into Light tells their stories. sciencenews.org/article/shadow…

Increïble! El meu llibre ha arribat a La Central! 📸 by Megan Saltzman

Poet, translator, and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote joins #SrinivasReddy and #SunitaPantBansal for a compelling discussion on #TenIndianClassics, an anthology that spans 2500 years of India’s literary heritage, celebrating the richness and diversity of Indian thought and

Honored and delighted that "Hurt Sentiments" has been awarded the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy book prize for 2025. Many thanks to members of the jury, to reviewers and readers. I am deeply grateful for this recognition. Congratulations to all the honorees!

New in Loeb classical library

March 1920: A Mad President Breaks the first Atlantic Alliance—A Forgotten History - geopolitique.eu/en/2025/03/02/…

'Whether what she wrote counts as poetry is still a live debate among Dickinson scholars.' Fiona Green on the poetic epistles of Emily Dickinson the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

It’s not often that biographies get their own biography — but then biographies like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce don’t come along very often. Immensely looking forward to reading this new book in May.

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