It was a real pleasure to join Miranda Melcher on the New Books Network 📚 podcast to talk about my book!

I spoke not only about the big ideas of the book but also some of the stories, and even the process of writing the book itself.

Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/made-in-china

Freeman Chair Senior Associate Lucy Hornby has written in Los Angeles Review of Books on two recently released biographies of Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Hua Guofeng.
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Gustave Flaubert died #OTD in 1880.

Michel Winock's 'generous study ingeniously builds a narrative around Flaubert’s own words—from not only the novels but also voluminous correspondence and unpublished work.' The New Yorker

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Branko Milanović – Universities as factories: braveneweurope.com/branko-milanov…

Helen Vendler, who died last week, at 90, had “an almost tactile understanding of the ancient practice of creating poems as art,” Nathan Heller writes. “She could see not only what poets did but how they did it.” nyer.cm/TEg7LWv

It’s “the closest thing we'll probably ever have to an intimate autobiography of the poet,” says Maureen Corrigan on Fresh Air Fresh Air npr.org/2024/04/25/124…

Congratulations to Julian Jackson, winner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper prize for FRANCE ON TRIAL. Read more about the book here: hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Emily Dickinson was by no means an isolated, lonely, woman.

This new edition of the letters will transform how we understand the narrative of Dickinson’s casual and profound relationships and her life as a poet. Literary Hub

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This essay by Ian Ellison in Los Angeles Review of Books brilliantly pulls out the Kafka thread from my book and stitches together something new and fascinating. What a dream reader!

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Congrats on the new book Daniel Susskind - “what is economic growth for?” is indeed the central question of the AI age. Excited to dig in.

‘When you are free from everything that holds you back
you can live in the world
without the depravities that ooze out from within.’

Read an excerpt from #Therigatha : #PoemsOfTheFirstBuddhistWomen , translated from the Pali by #CharlesHallisey . Scroll.in Harvard University Press

Wonderful to see Time's Monster (in great company) on the The Standard 's list of 'Best Books about British History to Read in 2024'! Penguin Books UK Casiana Ionita standard.co.uk/shopping/esbes…

Really pleased and grateful that Barry Eichengreen wrote a capsule review of my book for Foreign Affairs

It's a great pleasure and honour to see my work and ideas out in the world! Link here: foreignaffairs.com/reviews/made-c…

The idea for Richard Slotkin’s “A Great Disorder,” he tells Kathleen Belew, crystallized after Charlottesville.

On one side of the demonstration were leftist flags, on the other, right-wing ones. Both offered visions of what the US was supposed to be. buff.ly/446JtA0

What an honour to see a full-page review of my book in this weekend's The Australian newspaper

Paul Monk writes that 'it is a beauty. It demonstrates exquisitely detailed research, originality of thought, maturity of judgement and a wide-angled vision of geopolitics.'

A big feature in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) of Eric Calderwood’s ON EARTH OR IN POEMS, which explores how the memory of al-Andalus has shaped culture and politics around the world cambridge.org/core/journals/…

That time Europe tried to bring monarchy back to Mexico. Natasha Wheatley reviews “Habsburgs on the Rio Grande” by global historian Raymond Jonas in The New York Times
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Thank you Harvard University Press and Emily Silk for joining us today at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians! #AAH2024 #ClassicsTwitter

We're at the Ancient History conference at Harvard University this weekend!

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