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Alex Clapp’s forthcoming book on the political economy of the global garbage trade, Waste Wars, is phenomenal. Forthcoming February 25.
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Come out Friday, 8/23 to help us celebrate Issue 12!
Readings by: @Tiddlebits, @mayadamayadamay, Emma Lloyd, Julieta Vittore, and @nsglastonbury for @kiracecilia_
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One of the best pieces of criticism I've read this year, particularly for its subtheme of marketing-driven moralizing discourse on the 'low-effort' end of the litgame spectrum. thedriftmag.com/time-and-tim…
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What motivates the seemingly endless quest to translate Proust? @Tiddlebits on C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Lydia Davis, Benjamin Moser, and “the state of translation.”
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“Taken as a whole, it may be that Louis’s oeuvre offers the narrative not so much of his life but of his ongoing efforts at understanding it.”
Read @Tiddlebits on @edouard_louis’s brutal self-creation: bit.ly/3RJZ0yw
For @bookforum, I wrote about interpretation, not writing what you want to write, and Édouard Louis's latest, which I love bookforum.com/print/2903/a-f…
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Happy pub day to Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras, translated from French by Simon Leser.
Based on the true story of a young man named Fernand Iveton and set during the Algerian War, it won the Prix Goncourt for First Novel.
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Simon Leser (@Tiddlebits) has translated into English Joseph Andras' Goncourt-winning novel De nos frères blessés (2016) about the life of Fernand Iveton, the only pied noir executed for fighting in the FLN. Out with @VersoBooks this week: versobooks.com/books/3806-to…
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Very exciting to find this spirited review of my book today from Pankaj Mishra, in @newyorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
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1. Some notes on influences on this essay, which has been in the works for several months. I profited from the work of @adam_tooze on the Eurocrisis and @zeithistoriker on neoliberalism, to which I try to add a political-historical angle. bit.ly/2L8yhxP
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Congratulations to Hope Campbell Gustafson, Bruna Dantas Lobato (@bdantaslobato), Stephen Epstein, Misha Hoekstra (@mishap13), Lucas Klein, Simon Leser (@Tiddlebits), Emma Lloyd, Ottilie Mulzet (@caringerel), Catherine Nelson, Julia Powers, and Lara Vergnaud (@laravergnaud)!
Oh, it's nothing... just a bit sad @GWCUAW voted to endorse a deal negotiated behind their backs and clearly designed to disempower them, that's all
"... contrary to Columbia's efforts to divide GWC, this experience has demonstrated the strength of our unit and our determination to achieve a just contract that improves the working conditions for all graduate workers."
Read more here: columbiagradunion.org/2018/1…
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Beyond the connotations of the word, it's simply and obviously not true that America is more factional today than ever. There are two increasingly all-encompassing monocultures that bind people who wouldn't have considered themselves cultural kin 50 years ago. xitter.gq/BigMeanInternet/status…
I continue to be shocked at the way so many pundits feel comfortable using the word "tribal" psmag.com/education/why-davi…
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History is a cycle in Turkey. When I was her age I interviewed the tortured kids and now it is my dear @CagilKasapoglu ‘s turn. With each new generation we keep hoping this pattern will be broken. Listen to these young people, maybe this time they will put an end to this cycle. xitter.gq/cagilkasapoglu/status/…
High school students protesting the govt's education system in Istanbul are beaten by police detained then released. They are defiant and defend their right to be on the streets "This all means that they are afraid of us the youth" they told to @bbcturkce
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Reading Bill Clinton’s novel. Literally a page after a tense confrontation about a terrorist plot, the fictional president Will Winsom thinks this to himself.
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Virginia Woolf wanted to "challenge preconceptions of image, to make other ways of seeing possible, and to break down simplistic divides" Ali Smith's v personal response to the @Tate_StIves/@PallantGallery/@FitzMuseum_UK exhibition inspired by Woolf - in today's @NewStatesman
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Not going to engage with The Last Jedi twitter again today. I will say though that I remain totally baffled as to how this isn't the critical consensus on that film. washingtonpost.com/news/act-…
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I learned so much from the late Bernard Lewis. All my research into Western culture is based on his work.
"So when you gaze at planet earth from outer space? / Does it wipe that stupid look off of your face?"
So happy he's back (and great review @jazz_monroe) pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…