May we present: Issue Three! In its pages: medieval wind power, Forensic Architecture, Climate commentary as tragedy & farce, Ukrainian jokes, romance in Kuala Lumpur, words and worlds found in translation. Discover the issue here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue-3

🚨 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY🚨 "Creative Placemaking, Black Restorative Ecologies, Black Creative Futures" Georgetown University w/ the fabulous Amani Morrison. May 7 deadline, please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/124279

FBI released part of its file on NBA great Bill Russell today (some of this had been previously reported and released). A short thread on that's in there vault.fbi.gov/william-russel…

From now on I will only accept introductions in the voice of Sean Connery.

Wondering what to read this summer? Check out our summer reading collection, and get 30% off these books and all HUP print titles before 24th July by using code SUM23 at checkout on our website: hup.harvard.edu/results-list.p…

This week on The Last Archive, a quick tour through mid-century phone anxieties & spiritualities. Calling in: Brian Hochman on wiretapping history; Hannah Zeavin on suicide hotlines; & Will Vaus on the family history bringing it all together... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Pushkin Industries 🎙️

Aaaaaaand here we go again. Every. Single. September.

Announcing the Sawyer Seminar @georgetown on “Creative Placemaking, Black Restorative Ecologies, and Black Spatial Futures!" Follow us and check out blackrestorativeecologies.org to learn more. #restorativelyblack #blackecologies #blackfutures #mellonfoundation #dc #blackstudies

Some news: the indefatigable Matthew Guariglia and I are working on a new edition of the Church Committee Report for modern readers, with an afterword by Beverly Gage. Coming your way in October 2025!

Happy to announce that Brian Hochman and I will be working w/ W. W. Norton & Company to put out a 50th anniversary single-volume edition of the Church Committee's Report on government surveillance, assassinations, and sabotage in the 20th century. This has long been a dream project of mine.

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Psyched to announce that THE LISTENERS was awarded the Surveillance Studies Network 2023 Book Prize. Thank you Surveillance Studies Surveillance & Society and Harvard University Press! amazon.com/Listeners-Hist…

Congratulations to Prof. Brian Hochman, whose book THE LISTENERS: A HISTORY OF WIRETAPPING IN THE UNITED STATES was awarded the Surveillance Studies Network's 2023 Book Prize.

The Surveillance Studies Network is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Book Award: "The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States," by Brian Hochman. #surveillance. tinyurl.com/4hw9frvf

So grateful to my incredibly insightful colleagues. This forum is the single best introduction to the last ten years of my work. Thank you Brian Hochman, Suzanne Piotrowski, Krista Ferrante, Heidi Kitrosser, John Krige, and Aviel Roshwald.

🚨 JOB 🚨 Assistant Prof. of Black Indigenous Studies GU Black Studies American Studies at Georgetown. 10/4 application deadline.