My review of Nicholas Mulder's Age of Confiscation is out in the October issue of Literary Review with some thoughts on very big history literaryreview.co.uk/states-on-th...
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Erik Linstrum
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Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY and RULING MINDS. 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. Working on fascism and empire. Writing in Literary Review, Jacobin, New Republic, History Today, etc.
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social@eriklinstrum.bsky.socialThank you so much. Yes, I have felt the same way for a long time. So many great Europeanist titles! (And you should!)
@eriklinstrum.bsky.socialI'm writing a not-too big book on a very big subject and thrilled to be doing it for Norton, which has published history I've read and admired for a long time
@emile-chabal.bsky.socialReposted by @eriklinstrum.bsky.socialLove this review of the book in
@jacobinmag.bsky.social by @eriklinstrum.bsky.social, which opens out onto larger questions about "demystification", Eurocentrism, and what is left of Hobsbawm in 2026. Can't wait to continue these conversations!
@litreview.bsky.socialReposted by @eriklinstrum.bsky.socialOut now! Literary Review's October 2026 issue, featuring
Nicholas Dames on the novel
@jfb1066.bsky.social on Napoleon’s marshals
John Adamson on the Glorious Revolution
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social on confiscation
@janetanderson.bsky.social on small dogs
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social(From one Connecticut native to another, as it turns out)
@eriklinstrum.bsky.socialHow wonderful! Congratulations