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"One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice." —Ursula K. Le Guin.
Thank you for sharing your imagination with us.
"When both were participating in an anti-apartheid poetry reading in 1986, June Jordan approached Adrienne Rich and said, 'I completely and absolutely detest your views on Israel and I love you.'"
@m_myglory
examines a Black feminist falling-out.
“One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
"One is left feeling compassion for a generation that feels doomed, that is waking up to its identity only to have it recede before their very eyes at the moment of their awakening."
@grossloh
on "Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink" by Jeff Wasserstrom:
“At its core, ‘Hades’ is a story about the particular cruelties only those closest to you can inflict.” Vivian Lam explores how
@SupergiantGames
’s “Hades” turns Greek myth into a subversive allegory of resistance.
"Whether or not an explicit agreement existed between the Russians and Trump himself, we can broadly call Trump’s public response to Russia’s election interventions collusive.”
@SethAbramson
discusses his book “Proof of Collusion” with Andy Fitch:
"If men gave birth, the question of whether or not to have children would have been the central question of philosophy from the beginning of time." Sheila Heti in conversation:
Prior to his kidnapping by Israeli forces, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha shared a poem with us in which he wrote, “If you live in Gaza, / you die several times.” Relieved for his release yesterday morning, we share the poem, “Gaza Notebook (2021-2023).”
"'Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity' is proof that the future of Classics is already here. It’s simply waiting for everyone else to catch up."
@senscommunrare
reviews Sarah Derbew.
Biden got the most votes in US history; he’s the only Democrat in our lifetimes to get above 50%, except for Obama. John Nichols argues that we had a "close" election only because of the Electoral College.
@NicholsUprising
on
@thenation
podcast
In a very Kirsten Dunst/Jesse Plemons Oscar nominee couple moment, previous LA RB EIC Boris Dralyuk and his wife/esteemed author and translator Jennifer Croft are both 2022 finalists for the
@bookcritics
Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Congratulations, Boris and Jenny!
"Seidel has effectively exposed and unreservedly debunked the myth that America was founded as a Christian (or later Judeo-Christian) nation." Stephen Rohde on "The Founding Myth" (
@SterlingBooks
):
“One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin:
“We need to think through this post-truth culture I describe as making decisions based less on fact, data, and evidence, and more on emotion, preference, feeling, grievance, tribe.” General Michael Hayden in conversation:
In 2020, The NY Times called her “the most successful independent journalist in America, more or less by accident”– author
@HC_Richardson
on writing "Democracy Awakening" – on
@thenation
podcast w/
@JonWiener1
@VikingBooks
Four Palestinian poets write in a time of catastrophe.
@mapofmyself
,
@LKTuffaha
, Jessica Abughattas, and
@DeemaShehabi
share poems in conversation with the work of people across Palestine and the diaspora.
“Genocide enabled the complete fulfillment of the policy of ethnic domination through expropriation.”
@ArisJanigian
speaks with Ümit Kurt about his book “The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province.”
"'Shortest Way Home' is more than just a stump speech with a dust jacket. It’s a vivid and surprisingly lyrical portrait of a city and a man in transition." Harrison Hill on Pete Buttigieg's new memoir:
(MUELLER REPORT LIVE THREAD) This thread chronicles—in real time—the release of the Mueller Report, with news and analysis from a
@Newsweek
columnist and
@NYTimes
bestselling author (Proof of Collusion). Please retweet this thread widely for those you think might benefit from it.
"It would go to authors and journalists and newsrooms and people, writing stories to capture what happened during the pandemic, from all walks of life in America."
@DonFranzan
speaks with
@RepTedLieu
about the 21st Century Federal Writers' Project Act.
"You could read Ono’s career as a long thesis on exposure and concealment. Now you see her, now you don’t; now she’s silent, now she’s screaming.”
@austinwriting
revisits Yoko Ono's poetry.
“One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
"From the day India became independent from British rule, August 1947, there has not been a single day when the Indian Army has not been deployed within its own borders against quote unquote its own people." Arundhati Roy:
"Given the longevity and recent expansion of the hallyu — signified by the crossover success of pop band BTS and Bong’s 2019 Best Picture Oscar for 'Parasite' — it’s surprising how little attention manhwa still receives, especially in print." DW McKinney:
"And if the fantasy of 'High Fantasy' is always that absolute rulers might rule well and kindly and with good intentions for their people, then Game of Thrones has abruptly woken up and remembered what a queen is."
@zunguzungu
on
#GameofThrones
:
“Yes. For those of us whose histories have been written over by strangers, we have to learn again.”
@AdhiamboKE
and
@bhakti_shringa
talk the history and writing of East Africa.
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We're thrilled to announce Samuel Rutter as our new International Literature editor. Previously the deputy editor of Astra Magazine, his work can be found in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Dirt, and other publications. Welcome,
@Samuel_Rutter
!
Perhaps the most audacious argument in David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" is that modern corporations are not just similar to feudalism — they are basically the same thing.
"For more than a century, Clark Ashton Smith has been unfairly disregarded as a poet, a short story writer, a painter, and even a sculptor." Scott Bradfield writes:
"People in the dominant group can rest in their mediocrity. That’s the privilege of privilege: being mediocre without being deported."
@viet_t_nguyen
in conversation with
@christibuckley
:
"Instead of explorers and imperial mandarins, Stern invites us to see empire as the product of investors, entrepreneurs, scamsters, hucksters, and an army of lawyers and publicists."
@DinyarPatel
reviews Philip J. Stern’s “Empire, Incorporated."
"The more important point here is that believing techie parents have secret insider knowledge about the harmful effects of children’s technology usage reinforces the dangerous myth that techies are always the smartest people in the room."
@morgangames
:
"Wizards and Hasbro may own the official lore, but actual plays and other creators have proved they have tales worth telling – both in terms of the stories of their tables, and the narratives of their own making,"
@friede
writes.
“'What is hidden from view,' he asks, 'or rather, what provisions have we made to shelter our minds from that which is too terrifying to confront?'” Jarrod Shanahan reviews Travis Linneman’s "The Horror of Police."
The
#1
movie in the world right now is "Barbie" – over $1 billion in ticket sales – and it's probably the most explicitly feminist movie ever made –
@KathaPollitt
– our most explicitly feminist writer – comments on
@thenation
podcast w/
@JonWiener1
"After Black Panther, Miles Morales, the new in-continuity Afro-Latinx Spider-Man, is the most impactful Black superhero on both page and screen this decade." Vincent Haddad writes:
“Starvation in Gaza is part of a longer process of dispossession, displacement, and feeding that promoted a false vision of allegedly 'humanitarian'—and internationally justified—occupation.”
“Though I was really shy, I found myself far more able to speak up when I was in the booth, talking on air.” Polygon’s
@LegsFrank
talks to
@PodcastReview_
We’re very pleased to announce Medaya Ocher as our next Editor-in-Chief!
No stranger to LARB, Medaya served as our Managing Editor and Senior Editor from 2014–2021, and is a current host of the LARB Radio Hour. We’re thrilled to welcome Medaya back to direct LARB’s vision.
spring has sprung. the LARB Quarterly No. 33 is finally here, featuring essays by
@anthonyocampo
and
@emrata
, silhouettes of those Californian literary It Girls Joan and Eve, and much more, all inspecting that one elusive question — what is L.A.?
Unlike countless articles and books delicately attempting to make sense of the Arab Spring, "Revolution for Dummies" stays true to its title. Orly Minazad writes:
"'The Bright Ages' has good news for us. The world can be beautiful without centralized and brutal imperial power. We just ignore that history for our own reasons."
@GoingMedieval
reviews Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry's new book on the Middle Ages.