James Bradley

@cityoftongues

Author of Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist and Clade. Editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean. New novel, Ghost Species, out now.

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    13 Oct 2020

    "Why do we privilege narratives of collapse over stories of endurance and adaptation?" I wrote a thing about civilisational collapse and hope in the face of catastrophe for .

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  2. 12 hours ago

    So we’re going to require other sectors of the economy to subsidise polluters to keep polluting, and to protect the profits of fossil fuel companies? Cool plan.

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    14 hours ago

    In 1836, the UK parliament appointed a select committee to look at "what measures ought to be adopted with regard to Native Inhabitants of Countries where British Settlements are made." In other words, a report on how the colonising was going./

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  4. 18 hours ago

    Very grateful to and for these two. Looking forward to both of them a lot!

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    20 hours ago

    Imagine writing such a magisterial survey that revives critical theory without once noting Horkheimer’s insistence that emancipation should challenge how the domination of nature is bound up with the domination of humans. Truly, stubbornly, Earth-blind.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    Paul McCartney Doesn’t Really Want to Stop the Show.

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    Oct 11

    The new Superman will soon begin a romantic relationship with a male friend, DC Comics announced. "The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt like a missed opportunity," said Tom Taylor, who writes the series.

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  8. 19 hours ago

    “'The Kindest' falls short in precisely the ways the saga laid out in the Times Magazine piece might lead us to expect: it makes a cartoon of the donor character, and it over-relies on identity-inflected hand-waving. Also, the prose is bad."

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  9. 19 hours ago

    "The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, an editor at Doubleday at the time."

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  10. 19 hours ago

    Fantastic news.

    Another cloudy day in Adelaide with a top of 23. There were 1466 new local cases for Victoria with sadly 8 deaths. The 5-day moving average is down to 1743, the first drop in about 7 weeks, and the Reff is down to 1.10. Definitely a hint of peak in the air.
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    Oct 11

    I recently finished 'Ghost Species' by . Would recommend highly. It's a page turner! And got me thinking about the limits of technology, how social collapse might happen, and what might come after it.

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  12. Oct 10

    Cairo Takeaway has reopened as well!

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  13. Oct 10

    I WENT TO THE SHOPS!

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    Oct 9

    's beautiful Unnatural Selection is one of the best, along with Susanne Paola Antonetta's The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being here and 's Where We Swim, memoirs I've read.

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    Oct 9

    The best new books to read in October as selected by avid readers and critics via

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    Oct 10

    Ok Twitter, many of you have now read brilliant & powerful so tomorrow night tune into Event 6.30pm. I’m the lucky one who gets to ask most of the questions. It’s free. Register now.

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  17. Oct 10

    This starts out as a pretty standard interview and then goes somewhere genuinely harrowing.

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  18. Oct 10

    “Who is defending Earth today? It’s so often just the poorest and most vulnerable people who have this incredible apparatus of state power ranged against them.” This is a bracing and fascinating interview with ⁦⁩.

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    Oct 9

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    Oct 6

    "Who needs the approval of officialdom when you can harness the power of speculation?" Patrick Allington () considers "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" alongside "Chariots of the Gods?"

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  21. Oct 8

    Great piece by in (with quotes from yours truly).

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