"Mir was at home in what I have described as the ‘Hindavi continuum’, the spectrum of languages that preceded the official standard modern Hindi that we know today... His poetry is vibrant with Khari Boli, Braj and Awadhi vocabulary and turns of phrase. And on the other hand, Mir

Sometimes an intense, draining day at work is washed away in a heartbeat when my eyes feast on an exceptional cover for a book I’ve been working on. This is that cover. This is that book. To Save and To Destroy by Viet Nguyen is now available for preorders. Harvard University Press.

I've always wanted to know more about Zhou Enlai... "The central theme of the book is Zhou’s relationship to Mao, under whom he served as premier for almost a quarter of a century." ... "Zhou Enlai: A Life" by Chen Jian, Harvard University Press

"Translation, to me, is a political act in addition to everything else that it can be as a literary, aesthetic or academic practice. The Mir book is my way of bearing witness to South Asia’s multilingual and cultural diversity. It embodies my rejection of the falsehood that Urdu

Thank you to Stephanie Hamilton for her letter in ⁦The Guardian⁩ recommending my #Burningthebooks (⁦John Murray Press⁩ ⁦Harvard University Press⁩) on how Libraries are a vital asset for a thriving society | Libraries theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

Congratulations to Richard Slotkin and A Great Disorder for making the National Book Awards longlist! As culture wars divide us, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink: tinyurl.com/yzv7hdbp

Signed copies of #Mapmatics in Harvard Book Store! Harvard University Press

The mincing politesse of American workplace language has turned everyone into a pious pleasure seeker. Nothing about that is pleasing.

Sunday harvest of basil, parsley, and green chillies. Send suggestions for what I should make with these.

From the late summer garden to my table. These are my genii locorum for the next few days while answering emails, editing manuscripts, seeking peer reviews, writing title information sheets, preparing for our Summer 2025 pre-sales conference, and much more. They are powerful.

What does it mean to be an other? Viet Thanh Nguyen's riveting Norton Lectures at Harvard last year are captured in To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other. The book will release on April 8th, 2025—the 100th anniversary of the Norton Lectures: tinyurl.com/yc3cvfc5

Are you heading back to school? Do you know your rights? Campus Free Speech by renowned legal scholar Cass Sunstein is an essential new pocket guide for navigating and asserting your First Amendment rights on campus. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2t4x6jnf

Metamorphosis of the basil and parsley from Sunday’s harvest into Monday’s dinner. The Greek gods couldn’t do it better.

Happy Publication Day to Dr Paula Rowińska's brilliant book Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World, which explores how math and maps have shaped not only our sense of space but our worldview! Harvard University Press

Celebrate Constitution Day with David Rabban's new book, Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right Harvard University Press. “The best book I've seen on academic freedom and its relationship to the 1st Amendment,” says Erwin Chemerinsky! hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…