Patrick McGuinness
@padrig.bsky.social
Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Lumpen Café Gyeongju. Not sure this is what Marx had in mind but happy to go along with the positive spin. (And the terrific food snd coffee.)
October 4, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Lumpen Café Gyeongju. Not sure this is what Marx had in mind but happy to go along with the positive spin. (And the terrific food snd coffee.)
Glad to be back in the TLS @thetls.bsky.social with a piece on Camus's notebooks this week. Reading the notebooks brought home to me just how much he still had left to write and say.
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
October 2, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Glad to be back in the TLS @thetls.bsky.social with a piece on Camus's notebooks this week. Reading the notebooks brought home to me just how much he still had left to write and say.
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
An occasional series on the travelability of iconic writers. Today it's Montaigne in Seoul. Not clear from outside or indeed inside what the great essayist had to do with this place, but if you want to attract the digressive urban customer, it works.
September 30, 2026 at 10:35 AM
An occasional series on the travelability of iconic writers. Today it's Montaigne in Seoul. Not clear from outside or indeed inside what the great essayist had to do with this place, but if you want to attract the digressive urban customer, it works.
Very sad to hear of Bonnie Greer's death. We appeared together at the Frankfurt Book fair a few years ago & spent happy hours exploring the city. I enjoyed her company and insight, her particularly memorable discussion of Hedda Gabler which she was adapting, and a visit to Goethe's house.
September 17, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Very sad to hear of Bonnie Greer's death. We appeared together at the Frankfurt Book fair a few years ago & spent happy hours exploring the city. I enjoyed her company and insight, her particularly memorable discussion of Hedda Gabler which she was adapting, and a visit to Goethe's house.
What a rancid bunch of people.
Reform UK tried to suppress coverage of its leader’s arrest on suspicion of assault and coercive control by warning news outlets they would break European privacy law by reporting it, we can reveal ✍️Martin Shipton
Reform UK tried to 'cover up' assault incident that led to its Welsh leader's resignation
Martin Shipton Reform UK tried to suppress coverage of its leader’s arrest on suspicion of assault and coercive control by warning news outlets they would break European privacy law by reporting it, w...
nation.cymru
September 16, 2026 at 8:33 AM
What a rancid bunch of people.
A strange out of body experience when instagram suggested for me a book I edited and introduced. Very Huysmansian sense at once of singularity and futility
September 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
A strange out of body experience when instagram suggested for me a book I edited and introduced. Very Huysmansian sense at once of singularity and futility
Despite the dust, the age and the abandonment, there's something enduring about these perfect shoes on their perfect wooden feet. A whole world stepping out.
September 11, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Despite the dust, the age and the abandonment, there's something enduring about these perfect shoes on their perfect wooden feet. A whole world stepping out.
Chimneyscapes of the 10th arrondissement
September 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Chimneyscapes of the 10th arrondissement
Reposted by Patrick McGuinness
it's interesting isn't it that for some in the media and government:
Holding up a sign declaring support for a group = Terrorism.
Storming a port in masks and all black clothes to try and force political change = Protest.
Holding up a sign declaring support for a group = Terrorism.
Storming a port in masks and all black clothes to try and force political change = Protest.
September 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM
it's interesting isn't it that for some in the media and government:
Holding up a sign declaring support for a group = Terrorism.
Storming a port in masks and all black clothes to try and force political change = Protest.
Holding up a sign declaring support for a group = Terrorism.
Storming a port in masks and all black clothes to try and force political change = Protest.
Reposted by Patrick McGuinness
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I must have thought, back in late June/early July, that I'd need a snack when I returned to my desk in college in September. The banana of summers past.
September 2, 2026 at 11:59 AM
I must have thought, back in late June/early July, that I'd need a snack when I returned to my desk in college in September. The banana of summers past.
Preparing a book on Rimbaud, hence Charleville. Rimbaud and Verlaine used to visit Bouillon and stay in the Hôtel des Ardennes. My great-grandmother and her mother were chambermaids there. It can't be ruled out that my g-g-gm changed their sheets.
August 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Preparing a book on Rimbaud, hence Charleville. Rimbaud and Verlaine used to visit Bouillon and stay in the Hôtel des Ardennes. My great-grandmother and her mother were chambermaids there. It can't be ruled out that my g-g-gm changed their sheets.
Raoul Vaneigem, lifelong heretic and heretophile(?), a thinker and scholar, poet of revolt & ex situationist comrade (then not) of Guy Debord. His Traité de savoir vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations was an inspiration in 68 and remains thrilling to read.
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Mort de Raoul Vaneigem, philosophe libertaire et inspirateur de Mai 68
Le penseur belge, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», in...
www.liberation.fr
July 31, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Raoul Vaneigem, lifelong heretic and heretophile(?), a thinker and scholar, poet of revolt & ex situationist comrade (then not) of Guy Debord. His Traité de savoir vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations was an inspiration in 68 and remains thrilling to read.
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Reposted by Patrick McGuinness
⚫ Le penseur belge Raoul Vaneigem, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», inspirateur de Mai 68.
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Vc3
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Vc3
July 30, 2026 at 5:19 PM
⚫ Le penseur belge Raoul Vaneigem, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», inspirateur de Mai 68.
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Vc3
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Vc3
Another satisfied tourist leaves a review. Bouillon, Rue Saint Nicolas.
July 29, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Another satisfied tourist leaves a review. Bouillon, Rue Saint Nicolas.
Every regular becomes a ghost in their local. Unless the local itself becomes the ghost. I used to come here and dislodge my grandfather Eugène from the bench by the window. And have been dislodged in my turn, and now finally. Café du Centre, Bouillon, 193?-2026.
July 26, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Every regular becomes a ghost in their local. Unless the local itself becomes the ghost. I used to come here and dislodge my grandfather Eugène from the bench by the window. And have been dislodged in my turn, and now finally. Café du Centre, Bouillon, 193?-2026.
A lot of what's wrong with the people who run universities can be summarised in the word 'hub', notably, as here, replacing the word 'library' (or llyfrgell as here).
July 22, 2026 at 1:14 PM
A lot of what's wrong with the people who run universities can be summarised in the word 'hub', notably, as here, replacing the word 'library' (or llyfrgell as here).
Robert Graves’s house in Deià, Mallorca. His desk, his Aga, his jams (by now probably explosive) and my face in his shaving mirror while he recites 'The Face in thr Mirror' in that mirror on the screen beside me.
July 13, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Robert Graves’s house in Deià, Mallorca. His desk, his Aga, his jams (by now probably explosive) and my face in his shaving mirror while he recites 'The Face in thr Mirror' in that mirror on the screen beside me.
Reposted by Patrick McGuinness
Overturn this! 😎
July 7, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Overturn this! 😎
A bit late to this. Once again, Stefan Collini's great article for @lrb.co.uk tells the truth about the REF. I'm wondering how we across subjects and universities can start to mobilise in this direction...
July 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
A bit late to this. Once again, Stefan Collini's great article for @lrb.co.uk tells the truth about the REF. I'm wondering how we across subjects and universities can start to mobilise in this direction...
Reposted by Patrick McGuinness
Do you like Hipster Marx 😎 Or are you, like Robbie Williams, loving Engels instead? 😃
July 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Do you like Hipster Marx 😎 Or are you, like Robbie Williams, loving Engels instead? 😃
Honoured and excited to be a judge, with such fantastic fellow judges. Currently making some shelf-space...
We’re delighted to reveal the judging panel for the Bukhman International Booker Prize 2027.
Katie Kitamura will act as Chair and will be joined Patrick McGuinness, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Olga Ravn and Tessa Thompson.
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Katie Kitamura will act as Chair and will be joined Patrick McGuinness, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Olga Ravn and Tessa Thompson.
Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
The Bukhman International Booker Prize 2027 | The Booker Prizes
The 2027 judging panel for the Bukhman International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, has been announced
thebookerprizes.com
July 2, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Honoured and excited to be a judge, with such fantastic fellow judges. Currently making some shelf-space...