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Heading Down the Same Bob Dylan Road: Although How Many Roads isn’t an essential Bob Dylan biography, not all books have to be necessary to be effective and rewarding.

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October 8, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Looking Class: Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?

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October 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Super fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @leafyhistory.bsky.social about @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing #Britain 's Lost Species #skystorians #folklore #NaturalHistory
October 4, 2026 at 8:31 AM
What a Difference a Voice Makes: Andy Burnham and Paul Cartledge's Pericles

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October 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Pongs of praise: the history and importance of smell for our antisceptic age

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October 3, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Book Review: The Contradictory Voice of W.H. Auden

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October 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Listen now: What do astronauts eat? How do they get exercise? What are space toilets like? All this and more are answered in the new book by Inquiry’s guest tonight, Peter Bond!

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October 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
John Minford’s China Bookshelf: The veteran literary translator tells us how his collection began, why his library is called “Three Dog Hall,” and how New Zealand pine is the best shelving material.

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October 2, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Peter Bond - Out of This World: Life as an Astronaut ...with TRE's Giles Brown

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October 1, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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The @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2027 catalogue: superb bios of Pushkin, Gogol, William Morris and Rabelais, a wonderful study of Samuel Palmer, David Batchelor's Chromocopia: The Colours of Colour, Geraldine Johnson's Sculpted By Light and much more. reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Listen now: Thomas More's Utopia

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October 1, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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All are welcome at this talk in Oxford, 14 October. A belated book launch too, so drinks and nibbles generously supported by June and Simon Li. www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/events/ming-... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
September 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Medieval mental health: Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music

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September 30, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Booker Prize Longlist Reads (Switzy, The End of Everything) & Shortlist Predictions

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September 30, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Today Roman Hautala joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social to discuss his new book Masters of the Earth: A History of the Golden Horde, 1219-1502, new from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social! Come check it out!

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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I’m Dr. Roman Hautala, author of Masters of the Earth: A History of the Golden Horde, 1219–1502 (Reaktion Books, 2026). AMA!
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September 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM
(Still) A man for all seasons: Martin Hall relishes a new intellectual history of Sir Thomas More that cuts through the myth and returns to primary sources

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September 29, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Listen now: Paul Cartledge, author of Pericles, talks with Aspects of History podcast

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September 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Poetry reviews: Colin Bramwell | Edwin Morgan | Kristján Norge | John Burnside
The work of these four poets demands stillness and reflection, writes Stuart Kelly

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September 28, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Listen now: Late Night on the Astral Plane podcast interviews John Kachuba about shapeshifters (episode 32).

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September 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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It is World Maritime Day, so here's a timely reminder of The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

'Bell ... brings exemplary scholarship as well as storytelling flair to the lightless depths of the “supernatural and monstrous Atlantic”.
September 24, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

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September 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Paul Cartledge applies the Page 99 Test to his book, Pericles

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September 19, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Paul Cartledge's favorite books on ancient Athens in the time of Pericles

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September 18, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Listen now: History of Literature podcast interviews Mark Csikszentmihalyi about Confucius

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September 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
'Refreshingly brisk in its content and structure, How Many Roads is as accessible as it is informative.'

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September 17, 2026 at 2:45 PM