Evening reading, Lyle Campbell's new book on The Indigenous Languages of the Americas

I've been lucky enough to get my hands on an advanced copy of Jack's book and I highly recommend it. It's a fantastic read from a true expert!

Loved this essay on Rikki Ducornet's work in The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

It’s been three years since Mamadi Doumbouya took power in #Guinea, on 5 September 2021. I have a short piece just out with a colleague in African Arguments. africanarguments.org/2024/09/guinea… A thread. 1/17

Special episode coming tomorrow: we talk to Renata Adler in person about Speedboat, Pitch Dark, and her career as a whole.

Congressman Austin Scott Led Bipartisan Visit to Niger

Игорю Стрелкову разрешили отправиться из колонии на войну — Shot storage.googleapis.com/kldscp/theins.…

We sit down with Renata Adler for a conversation about her fiction, nonfiction, and the murky area in between. unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/with-…

Self-imposed constraints are common in his writing. A master of the ephemeral who can bring unending elasticity to an instant, dissecting its anatomy to expose how mundane aspects of the everyday can turn into life-altering events. Award the Nobel Prize to Nicholson Baker.

jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/senior-analy… A huge opportunity at Crisis Group for a regionally-based researcher on #Georgia and #Armenia #Caucasus

Hungary is sending 200 troops to Chad, according to Le Monde: lemonde.fr/afrique/articl…

My latest for Foreign Policy, with Adam Sandor and Sergey, on the events leading up to #Wagner's routing in Mali's Tinzaouatene foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/10/mal…

Along with John Lechner and Sergei Eledinov, I wrote a piece on the current state of play in northern #Mali following the #Wagner Group's defeat at Tinzaouatene. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/10/mal…

"Just as the war on terror prevented France and the West from correctly ascertaining the root causes of jihadism in the Sahel, the rise of great-power competition narratives threatens to perpetuate misdiagnoses of Mali’s crises." foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/10/mal…

"In early 2021, the junta leadership began discussions with a group of Russian military advisors stationed in the country. The discussions were predicated on three factors: a long history of cooperation between Russia and Mali; the belief among Russian military advisors that the

Great John Lechner on Mali foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/10/mal…

"Russian advisors, who were well aware of the widening gap between interveners and Malians, particularly around the issue of Tuareg separatism, saw an opportunity for Russian influence and brought Wagner Group representatives into the mix. Together, the Russians pitched to

Foreign policy featured prominently in Tuesday's debate between Harris and Trump, but neither candidate gave much detail about their future plans for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. With Christina Lu foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/11/har…

Feels a bit rushed, probably best wait till a month left in office

Thirty-seven people - including three Americans, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian national - have been sentenced to death over an attempt to overthrow the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (BBC) bbc.com/news/articles/…