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    13. sep.

    "He worried that the literary and philosophical canon he cherished was a residue of dominion. So he turned...to the creation of something new, a literature of apocalypse that would analyze power and outlast it." — A great, expansive essay on Borowski

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    “I have talked to many veterans of protest camps […] All speak about them as the most beautiful events of their lives, though those movements were bludgeoned into silence.” on Occupy in NYRB

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    A wonderful, powerful, essential book. My review of "Pastoral Song" by James Rebanks Where Sheep May Safely Graze via

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    "I feel that Arbus was looking for somebody’s skin that she could wear. She stripped the people she photographed. She considered people freaks, which I’ve never done. Her work is not coming from the same empathy." - Nan Goldin

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    Angre
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    Evergreen via

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    My piece in the new NYBooks on some terrific books on West Africa. "Enemies of Progress" via

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    Foxes, a poem by Karen Solie

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    Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. I wrote something for The New York Review of Books

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    Angre
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    New York After Cuomo: He was a master centrist and brilliant consolidator of his own power. Who will control the state now that he’s gone?

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    Angre
  10. 15. sep.

    Two new books on the history of feminism emphasize global grassroots efforts and the influence of American women labor leaders on international agreements.

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    15. sep.

    Tadeusz Borowski is perhaps our most important chronicler of Auschwitz. I am proud to have written a foreword to Madeline Levine’s superb translation of his stories. No one can read them and be unchanged.

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    Angre
  12. 15. sep.

    Tyler Stovall demonstrates the potent and noxious ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept, writes David A. Bell

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  13. 14. sep.

    The classicist Milman Parry’s quest for the sources of Homeric epic led him in the 1930s to the Yugoslavian bards who sang in coffeehouses and bars much as he imagined Homer did.

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    Angre
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    13. sep.

    Terrific essay by in on "The Lie of Nation Building" in Afghanistan and how it says more about our flawed democracy and government than theirs.

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  15. 14. sep.

    Even tech optimists admit that human capacities are limited in comparison with the digital edifice we have built, with potentially grave implications for our health. Gavin Francis on three new books about what phones are doing to our brains and our lives

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    13. sep.

    Uncommon to see such deep, thoughtful appreciation for a translator, and the late Frederika Randall is such a worthy one. Thanks to for this review in of her final two translations, including BUG by Giacomo Sartori.

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    Angre
  17. 13. sep.

    Fintan O’Toole: The US, which has never managed to consistently apply human rights and the rule of law to its own citizens, could not do so for Afghans either.

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  18. 13. sep.

    “A typical writer seeks the exceptional in a concentration camp: the decent, the heroic, the patriotic, the revolutionary,” Timothy Snyder writes. “Borowski is more demanding… What is universal, he wants us to understand, is our capacity for degradation.”

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  19. 13. sep.

    “I think activism has kept me sober. In the recovery movement, they say you have to have some so-called higher power in your life. My higher power is my politics.” Nan Goldin talks to Claudia Dreifus about art, direct action, and justice for opioid victims

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    13. sep.

    "Escape Plan #1" by Michael Richards, an artist who died on Sept 11, 2001, in his studio. Edwidge Danticat has a great piece on his art.

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    Angre

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