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Our Spring / Summer 2025 catalogue is now available! Check out what we've got coming up for the beginning of next year now. 📖 loom.ly/efQtxxs

Have always loved JD’s Wolf Eyes/Manowar anecdote. So much so, it went into Electric Wizards. 🧙‍♂️⚡️ Here is is again. 🐺 👀 @reaktionbooks theguardian.com/music/2026/feb…

'Vorticism was so aspirational and so intense that at times it got lost in its own intentions… but for its machine age embrace of abstraction, nothing could surpass it.' 📌 artlyst.com/product/our-ga… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/our-littl…

Book Reviews: Sacred Wine, Stikky Wine, Kinda Like Wine 📌 wineeconomist.com/2025/12/16/sac… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/kanpai

Union with Christ, Medieval Horses, and Japanese Rain Words 📌 firstthings.com/union-with-chr… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-medie…

Book Notes: on Winter Light by Douglas J. Penick & Winter Dreams by Barbara H. Rosenwein 📌 ronslate.com/book-notes-on-… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/winter-dr…

“A king’s role is to be good and be maligned.” 📌 newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/marcus-au…

My #WeekendRead: @Creighton professor emeritus William O. Stephens’ new book on the life, times, thought, and legacy of Roman Emperor & aspiring Stoic Marcus Aurelius. So far, an interesting study of the challenges of reconciling the competing demands of statecraft & philosophy.

Books of the Year 2025 📌 engelsbergideas.com/reviews/books-… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/alexander…

Gift Books: Architecture A tribute to the genius of a Renaissance mind, a positively fishy story of coastal design and more well-built selections. 📌 wsj.com/arts-culture/b… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/brunelles…

'This is a book for the curious, one whose authors seem more than happy for you to set it down and supplement with a bit of impromptu research' 📌 hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-sound…

Excited to share the cover image of my new book, co-authored with Amy Palmer. Out in April with @reaktionbooks. On with the indexing now!!! #Histchild #foodhistory

Culinary Gifts That Won’t Fill Your Cabinets 📌 thirdcoastreview.com/food/2025/12/1… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/dinner-in…

After a Rocky Year, Newsrooms Push Deeper Into AI 📌 thewrap.com/media-platform… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/you-want-…

To travel both and be one traveller … Muriel Spark and Katherine Mansfield Give Life Lessons on Poetry in Prose 📌 pnreview.co.uk/archive/to-tra… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/katherine…

In Berlin I became a sober Sunday morning clubber. In time I figured out why 📌 irishtimes.com/life-style/peo… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/berghain-…

Tofu vs tempeh: which will win battle of the soy blocks? 📌 buff.ly/hcEIDrQ 📚 buff.ly/LEronkV

Our critic’s pick: “Scipio Africanus: The First Imperator,” by Dexter Hoyos (Reaktion Books). @reaktionbooks @UChicagoPress #2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

I am giving away a signed copy of my book, Off The Ground: Paul McCartney In The 1990s. On Bluesky, though. Not here. Visit me there for details: bsky.app/profile/spinal… #PaulMcCartney #OffTheGround #Beatles #Beatlesbooks #90s #ReaktionBooks #Macca @reaktionbooks

The best non-fiction to read this year: From memoirs by politicians to biographies of poets, this will be a year in which life-writing abounds 📌 newstatesman.com/culture/cultur… 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/enver-hox…

If you've ever heard someone claim that assisted dying is 'playing God', this clip (from LBC Radio) shows why they really do not understand how faith works. They can still be against assisted dying, but should not do so in God's name anymore.