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New at PB, @borywrites.bsky.social reviews “American Fiction,” the Academy Award–nominated film version of Percival Everett’s “Erasure,” by former journalist Cord Jefferson.
He reflects on the film’s “satire with heart.” www.publicbooks.org/satires-troj...
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New at PB, Janet Vertesi interrogates how the systems that bring us our “information” can’t measure or optimize what is actually true—and how “Artificial Intelligence” has made the problem worse. www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclop...
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“Especially if you're in the Latinx diaspora and you're used to living with a bunch of generations under the same house, there are gonna be many things that are left unsaid, and a lot of lying that's gonna happen.”
New at PB: www.publicbooks.org/melissa-loza...
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Meena Venkataramanan reviews two new books on US colonialism in the Pacific Islands.
They show how the US authorized distinct forms of colonial control based on how settler colonizers racialized Indigenous communities as proximal to whiteness. | New at PB: www.publicbooks.org/the-pacific-...
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Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, "Phantoms of Patriarchy: On Ditlevsen & Bachmann” (@publicbooks.bsky.social; #bookhistory, 🗃️ #skystorians): www.publicbooks.org/phantoms-of-...
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Reality, as seen by Godzilla by Joseph Weiss
Featuring Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life by @sshaviro.bsky.social l 🐊💚
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Since WVU made the announcement that hundreds of faculty and staff would be subject to a reduction in force and dozens of core educational programs would close, WVU workers have lived in a state of anxiety.
Rose Casey reflects on crisis, new at PB: www.publicbooks.org/in-defense-o...
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In the latest Public Thinker, Katherine Hobbs reflects on the Glendale Historical Society’s efforts to save the “Doctors House,” a place, she writes, “where tiny slices of California’s past are allowed to sit next to one another.” www.publicbooks.org/pieces-of-th...
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A 1523 pamphlet depicted a grotesque fusion of donkey, woman, devil, & bird. It was meant to spread a Protestant critique of the Pope. But many thought the image was real.
Stefan Andriopoulos considers what this history tells us about “fake news” today: www.publicbooks.org/the-multipli...
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New at PB, @keishablain.bsky.social interviews Amrita Myers about her new book “The Vice President’s Black Wife,” which details the amazing life of Julia Ann Chinn, the formerly enslaved wife of 9th vice president of the United States Richard Mentor Johnson.
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brilliant interview @publicbooks.bsky.social between Gabe Rosenberg and Bathsheba Demuth on the "brutal heteronormativity" of our food systems
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During the pandemic, mutual aid and collective care networks arose to meet care needs where governments and philanthropic efforts failed.
But what makes something mutual aid or collective care and not capitalist charity? www.publicbooks.org/the-revoluti...
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In their ability to disorient and perplex, “undergrounds” in the 19th century unleashed buried social and political possibilities, especially for 19th-century Black authors who made use of undergrounds to “imagine Black life within unfreedom.”
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“Celine uses feminism to justify her narcissism. She is a female chauvinist, which we don’t see all that often in literature.”
New at PB, Catherine Newman in conversation with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright about her new book “Alice Sadie Celine”: www.publicbooks.org/their-lives-...
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In the 1970s, some feminists purchased land and created havens away from patriarchy. One such collective living project, HOWL, continues today.
Annabel Barry, Caroline Godard, Anna Park, & Jadie Stillwell revisit HOWL’s writerly origins: www.publicbooks.org/womens-land-...
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“This conference is not good for my digestive system.”
Read the latest “Shoptalk,” curated by Mary Zaborskis: www.publicbooks.org/shoptalk-ove...
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann
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Dig this conversation between Alison Gopnik and Ted Chiang, at @publicbooks.bsky.social: www.publicbooks.org/developing-a...
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“In the delta, the economic elite had weaponized the technologies of postwar agricultural mechanization, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides to dismantle the growing economic and political strength of Black labor.“
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In 1964, Black radical autoworker James Boggs observed that an encroaching crisis of automation “exclude[d] more and more people from playing any productive role in society.”
His writings were prescient, Jason Ludwig argues in a new piece at PB: www.publicbooks.org/politics-not...
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New at PB, we share Elizabeth Ferry's conversation with John Plotz about his book on Ursula K. Le Guin’s politically evolving “Earthsea” series and his opportunity to speak with Le Guin in 2015, when she was in a “ruminative state of mind.” www.publicbooks.org/john-plotz-o...
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How do you make a person?
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and Ted Chiang consider how child-rearing and care work can yield insights into Artificial Intelligence. www.publicbooks.org/developing-a...
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Surfing is not all fun in the sun.
It also, John Marlovits argues, offers a highly militarized way of consuming the beach: the epitome of imperial consumption practices. www.publicbooks.org/surfing-or-h...
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Fascinating essay from Carl Gelderloos in @publicbooks.bsky.social on why we might want to rediscover Helmuth Plessner, and how laughing and crying can open up huge generative thoughts. www.publicbooks.org/humans-are-n...
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Think about the last time you laughed or cried.
Can you divorce the idea from its effects on your body? What actually are laughing and crying?
Carl Gelderloos reviews Helmuth Plessner’s “Laughing and Crying": www.publicbooks.org/humans-are-n...
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Kang Hwagil’s “Another Person” reveals how crucial literature is in the #MeToo era, Kaelie Giffel writes, specifically for building publics against the reality of what violence does to our capacity for love, solidarity, and healing. www.publicbooks.org/a-metoo-nove...
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Nancy Cooper Frank
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thoughtful essay on this lovely film and how it plays with rom-com expectations
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In her review of Jordan Magnuson's “Game Poems,” Maria Dikcis explores video games that push back against the norms of mainstream video games by seamlessly blending the playable and the literary.
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Excellent essay on Jacobs-Jenkins plays as answers to Why Theatre? Why Now?
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In its fiftieth anniversary, a 1973 novel written by a French anti-immigration activist that helped rebrand fascism as “sensible” for moderates continues to influence and inspire right-wing leaders today.
New at PB, from Alex Bronzini-Vender: www.publicbooks.org/making-fasci...
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New at PB, Sohini Chatterjee interviews Eric Stanley about their new book, “Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable” which explores how anti-trans/queer violence constitutes modernity’s foundations. www.publicbooks.org/living-in-an...
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Celine Song’s "Past Lives" challenges the typical message of primal connection offered by most romance films, instead suggesting that they can never be separated from the material conditions of our existence.
Read Beenash Jafri’s review, new at PB: www.publicbooks.org/our-matrix-o...
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We are in a golden age of Korean revenge TV dramas, @ritaraley.bsky.social & Eunjin Choi argue.
For those wishing to dip their toe into the genre, they showcase seven K-dramas you can stream now: www.publicbooks.org/payback-kore...
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Amanda Watson
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I still save ticket stubs and programs for the rare occasions when the scrapbooking impulse overtakes me. Not that I expect my amateurish opera scrapbooks to wind up in an archive, but the urge to preserve is there.
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"You should read BIG FICTION. It’s the best treatment of why fiction is the way it is that I’ve ever read. And the stories too!" Clayton Childress on Dan Sinykin's (@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social) new book from their conversation published in @publicbooks.bsky.social. bit.ly/3SzojX0
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"The book is a paradigm for how theory gets written now: in merged voices, as if courting disorientation ..." -- Nick Dames (@njdames.bsky.social) recommends TONE, by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno in @publicbooks.bsky.social bit.ly/3SC8v5L
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In our latest Public Picks, our editors share the books of 2023 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us: www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
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New at PB: Clayton Childress interviews Public Books’s Culture Industries Section Editor Dan Sinykin on his new book “Big Fiction,” an examination of how changes in the publishing industry powerfully shape which books end up in readers’ hands. www.publicbooks.org/life-inside-...
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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a trend toward digital ticketing, where theaters deliver tickets via email or QR code.
Bailey Sincox considers the implications of this digital turn, and its threat to preserving the historical record of performance. www.publicbooks.org/tickets-are-...
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New at PB: Abby Schroering reviews “The Skin of Our Teeth” and “The Comeuppance,” two recent post-pandemic New York productions from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
“The unique liveness of the theatre,” Schroering argues, “is tied up in a unique deathness.”
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In our final installment of our series on Haitian independence, N. Frédéric Pierre contends that general Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s 1804 proclamation referenced a “cosmic universe” that resonated with Haitians born with African epistemologies. www.publicbooks.org/haitis-bluep...
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Few know the history of Black African journalist and thinker Félix Darfour, who was executed by the Haitian state in 1822.
Délide Joseph contends that his death has much to tell us about the troubled characteristics of the Haitian state at that time. www.publicbooks.org/enemy-of-the...
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Beyond official proclamations and flags, Laurent Dubois writes, lies a largely unrecognized foundation for Haiti’s nationhood and sovereignty: one developed through resistance to enslavement and rooted in rural communities of post-independence Haiti. www.publicbooks.org/counter-plan...
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In our next installment on 220 years of Haitian independence, Lewis Ampidu Clorméus details the relentless attacks on Haitian freedom in the years after Haitians liberated themselves from the French and founded the first Black nation in the Americas. www.publicbooks.org/haiti-what-s...
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For Black abolitionists fighting for freedom in the United States, Haiti’s destruction of French colonialism, establishment of an independent nation, and eradication of slavery made it a powerful symbol of global Black freedom, Leslie M. Alexander writes. www.publicbooks.org/the-us-has-n...
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Haiti's seizing of independence and abolishing of slavery, making it the FIRST DEMOCRACY in North America was denied WHILE it was happening and immediately after. Trouillot says it was "unthinkable". They couldn't process it, making it that much easier for *some* to forget (like France ).
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Haiti ended slavery and the white world has held that against them ever since
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Even after Haitians gained independence, they faced constant threats from French colonizers seeking to violently reinstate their rule. This is why, @juliagaffield.bsky.social argues, they insisted on self-rule and total territorial sovereignty, and nothing less. www.publicbooks.org/we-have-dare...
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Day 1 of a new series over at Public Books commemorating the 220th anniversary of Haitian independence!
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220 years ago this month, Haiti became the first nation to permanently abolish slavery. Yet Haiti’s legacy as a leader in abolition is often overlooked.
Marlene L. Daut reflects on this erasure & introduces our latest series: Haitian sovereignty: www.publicbooks.org/how-haiti-de...
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