#LARB Radio Hour talks with #PankajMishra about his new book, "#TheWorldAfterGaza: A History”
"[H]ow the legacy of the Holocaust has shaped the contemporary world order, including how it has shaped the government of #Israel, and the current war in #Gaza. The book grapples with how, within the relentless violence of the 20th century, #trauma can lead to #nationalism, and also how one #genocide can lead to another."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/pankaj-mishras-the-world-after-gaza-a-history/
Jess Maginity reviews Jordan S. Carroll’s “Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right.” :
"Carroll identifies the hollow core of their claims: while these radical right figures claim that science fiction allows white men to reclaim their racial identity as intrepid innovators and explorers solely responsible for shaping the future, these right-wing thinkers are in fact incapable of imagining a future meaningfully distinct from the self-aggrandizement of their present identity."
#sciencefiction #altright #farright #larb #books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/whose-future-is-it-anyway/
Thanks to @dys_morphia I'm through the looking glass, down the rat-hole of my collection of #HannahArendt articles.😉
Here's one from seven years ago(2017) that is, in my opinion, kinda mealy-mouthed re:Trump; but, addresses some of the issues brought up in The Origins of #Totalitarianism and its current relevance.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/arendt-matters-revisiting-origins-totalitarianism/
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#antifa #AntiFascism #books #PoliticalScience #LARB #Politics
Great article about the new film from #yorgoslanthimos #kindsofkindness which I watched and did not know what to make of beyond a vague feeling of unease and horror. Love the #LARB.
The Trouble with the French Republic: On Two Recent Books About French Colonization
Book review with commentary, for French who read English. And others who read English too, of course.
Some thoughts on the prevalence of trauma backstory and flashbacks in 21st century prestige TV, from Elizabeth Alsop in LARB.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-past-is-never-dead-on-tvs-backstory-problem
Prison Left Me Laughing: A Conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o By Remo Verdickt, Emiel Roothooft
"NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O is considered one of the leading writers on the African continent of the last 50 years. On December 31, 1977, he was arrested and spent a year in prison as an opponent of the Kenyatta dictatorship."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/prison-left-me-laughing-a-conversation-with-ngugi-wa-thiongo/
#NgugiWaThiongo #BlackMastodon #Writers #Literature #BlackTwitter #African #LARB #Academia #Teacher #BookInTranslation #Kenya #Book #Lit #Academicchatter
"Dinner for Six" van Lu Min (vert Nicky Harman en Helen Wang) besproken in de LA Review of Books, samen met Xiaolu Guo en Yiyun Li. Een vervuilde industriewijk is 'het decor voor tedere romance – romances tussen paartjes personages, en evengoed een passie voor het proletarische leven.'
#China #literatuur #lezen #boeken #LuMin #LARB @chineseliterature
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/eating-to-live-on-yiyun-lis-the-book-of-goose-lu-mins-dinner-for-six-and-xiaolu-guos-a-lovers-discourse/
This is a great interview from the #losangelesreviewofbooks team. Colm #Tòibín is such a fantastic and articulate person.
#LARB Radio Hour: Colm Tóibín's "A Guest at the Feast"
Episode webpage: https://sites.libsyn.com/67712/colm-tibns-a-guest-at-the-feast
"According to 'Shipwrecked', a remarkable disaster story by historian Jamin Wells,there was another driving force behind the remaking of the 19th-century littoral. Maritime disasters, a regular event on the Atlantic seaboard, 'unleashed a torrent of public and private energies that turned the coastal frontier into the modern beach,' Wells writes.
Going Coastal: On Some Recent Books About the Ecology and History of Beaches
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/going-coastal-on-some-recent-books-about-the-ecology-and-history-of-beaches via Los Angeles Review of Books #LARB
The labeled "generations" used by the #media & pop-sociology writers is questionable, to say the least:
"What Makes A Millennial?", Los Angeles Review Of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-makes-a-millennial/).
#LARB #Books #Generations #Millennials #GenZ #SocialMedia #BabyBoomers #Boomers #Sociology
A #review of the #book #ScienceUnderFire:
"Anti-Anti-Anti-Science", Los Angeles Review Of Books (https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/anti-anti-anti-science).
#Science #BookReview #AntiScience #AntiAntiAntiScience #LARB #History #Religion #Experts #Trust #Faith
"Starbucks might well take in the baristas’ nametags, nearly all of which bear, in bold, chalky, Roman capital letters, names like SALLY or RYAN or ANGIE. You’d expect that in Denver or Syracuse, but in the capital of South Korea, let alone the much smaller towns all over the country, and pinned to the chests of an all-Korean staff serving a mostly Korean clientele, the effect is surreal."
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/korea-started-using-english-names-will-stop/
