Brian K Goodman

The Antipolitical Imagination: The Story of a Dissident Idea between Budapest and New York

How did writers and artists working under authoritarianism respond to a widespread sense of political failure in the decades after 1968? Join us for a lecture by Brian K. Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social on "the antipolitical imagination".
⏰4 March 2026, 12:30 pm
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Mark your calendars: on May 12, @quinnslobodian.com and I go deep on yuppies at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social

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What Happens When Your Books (Don’t) Get Banned? When a friend wrote to me some months ago that he’d heard a book of mine had been banned, I felt a surge of excitement. I’m not proud of this. The banning of a book is hardly a badge of literary me…

Excerpt from Banning Books in America: Not a How-To (pub date today!) by @lydiamillet.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/what-happens...

Our little book on a big issue is out, with thought-provoking essays from @annieabrams.bsky.social, @lydiamillet.bsky.social, @briankgoodman.bsky.social, @electrostani.bsky.social, @jeremycyoung.bsky.social, @edrabinski.bsky.social, and more who are not on here--hoping people find it useful

looks great!

Czech beer and Hungarian literature

boldog születésnapot nekem!

I can’t help myself!

(Also, not quite what I argue, but I’m sure the reviewer couldn’t help themselves either.)

It’s true, I can’t help myself.

send!

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New Collection Confronts the Rise of Book Bans in the U.S. Alumnus Samuel Cohen gathers leading voices in “Banning Books in America,” a new collection of essays.

“Rubber bullets and book bans are weapons deployed against all of us.” Alumnus @samcohen.bsky.social confronts the censorship surge in “Banning Books in America: Not a How-To,” which includes a syllabus from his university course on banned books

The Antipolitical Imagination: The Story of a Dissident Idea between Budapest and New York

Next month, I'm giving a lecture on "The Antipolitical Imagination" at the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (@iasceu.bsky.social). If you're in Budapest, join us!

events.ceu.edu/2026-03-04/a...

(w/ Lukács plinth in the entryway!)

first day in my dream archive @archivum.org

Végre itt az ideje az írásnak.

The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State

Campaigns to disrupt progressive social movements. Government agencies violating the constitution. Unaccountable actions in Latin America.

The Church Committee warned us fifty years ago. Our publication day is today.

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Eine Rezension!

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Flyer for Banning Books in America, with discount and book event

Discount! Book event! Not clips of the president yelling at us!

"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."

Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026 As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

What a time to decide to learn less about the world.

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BANNING BOOKS IN AMERICA | Kirkus Reviews Confronting a “dangerous moment.”

Kirkus Reviews reviews, quirkily www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Andrew O’Hagan · Issues for His Prose Style: Hemingway The cult of specificity in Hemingway is a drug you take in a cheap arcade: lights flash on the old machines and a piano...

Also, “the cult of specificity is a drug you take in a cheap arcade” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Also, I just discovered this thoughtful review from Peter Bugge in the flagship Czech-language journal ČESKÁ LITERATURA 😅

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The Nonconformists — Harvard University Press How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent.“In some indescribable way, we are each ...

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Give the gift of Czech & American literary dissent this holiday season. There's sex, sausage, smuggled poetry! And that's just the Ginsberg chapter...

(Use code HOL25 on the @harvardpress.bsky.social site for a steep discount.)

We move to Budapest in exactly one month... 😬

Totally!

I kind of love the ‘69 translation. Also, Michelle Woods is great on this stuff.

The Nonconformists — Harvard University Press How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent.“In some indescribable way, we are each ...

I write a lot about what Balint calls the "curatorial Roth and his public literary citizenship" in my book:

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

‘Philip Roth’ Review: The Masks of a Writer Roth’s fiction drew heavily on his own life and literary reputation in ways that blurred imagination and reality.

Balint on Zipperstein's new bio of Roth: "Roth curated Penguin’s 'Writers From the Other Europe,' smuggling masters from behind the Iron Curtain into American sight: Tadeusz Borowski, Danilo Kiš, Milan Kundera and, crucially, Bruno Schulz."

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...