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Public Books and the Sydney Review of Books have partnered to exchange a series of articles with international concerns. Today’s article, “Filling in Time Reading Vasily Grossman While Waiting for S,” by Maria Tumarkin, was originally published by the SRB on April 28, 2023. What a time to be reading about Annie Ernaux’s self-obliterating affair with S from the Soviet embassy in Paris, not that...
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Is it ever possible to reconcile clashing visions of national memory?
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A work of absurdist art that entertains, but also carries a surprisingly grown-up message about taking responsibility for the state of our politics.
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“Whitehead’s satire takes aim … at a capitalist system that senses the profits to be made from proclaiming that systemic racism is a thing of the past.”
The post B-Sides: Colson Whitehead’s “Apex Hides the Hurt” appeared first on Public Books.
If George Eliot was interested in religious coexistence, she was also interested in unbelief.
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Rushdie’s fifteenth novel casts doubt on the very production of historical knowledge.
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Faculty and students can—and must—govern their own institutions, so that universities maintain their vital power.
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Does the author-read audiobook offer a perfect confluence between person, authorial persona, voice, and aesthetic form?
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In 1910, the new mayor didn’t promise speed, but pledged “to do all our limited means permit to make Milwaukee a better place for every citizen.”
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Games like Wordle and CALL OF DUTY equally stem from capital's attempt to conquer leisure time. Is there a better way to play?
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Greek mythology has long been a by-word for elitism. Is it really a good idea to use its images for contemporary gender justice?
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Mr. President shows widespread corruption around a fictional Guatemalan dictator. This did not please the country’s real dictators.
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Armageddon Time is undercut by the very forces it hopes to expose: white complicity, forged through the exploitation of Black life.
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Writing Latinos is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad.
The post Natalia Molina on “A Place at the Nayarit” appeared first on Public Books.
Individual protests, like those in Hong Kong, may be defeated. But the global protest movement is only beginning.
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The museum has made its splash, but if it wants to be more than a work of starchitecture, it requires deeper collections and bolder curatorial vision.
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The best poets tend to trouble conventions, including those they find necessary.
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“Throughout Franzen’s life in public, he has figured himself as embattled, enemy-beset.”
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Is there a writing life than can safely dispense with categories like identity and commitment, which count so much in how we live now?
The post Tender Gossip: Darryl Pinckney’s “Come Back in September” appeared first on Public Books.
Mexico once cultivated a “special relationship” with death. But cultural globalization and rising violence is weakening that bond.
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