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Hmmmmm I decided to go *full weird* in the books newsletter this week & 2 ppl have already unsubscribed lol
1. We begin with the emergence of a terrifying & ancient entity called "The End of the World Review"......
2. & then, the list! Longer than ever! https://endoftheworld.substack.com/p/this-week-in-books-rent-is-due
1. We begin with the emergence of a terrifying & ancient entity called "The End of the World Review"......
2. & then, the list! Longer than ever! https://endoftheworld.substack.com/p/this-week-in-books-rent-is-due
1. “It Was More Than a Notion” by Aaron Robertson @augiewatts @the_point_mag
“When black Narcissus looks into the water and finds not even a distorted image of his face but nothing at all, what becomes of beauty?” https://thepointmag.com/politics/it-was-more-than-a-notion/
“When black Narcissus looks into the water and finds not even a distorted image of his face but nothing at all, what becomes of beauty?” https://thepointmag.com/politics/it-was-more-than-a-notion/
2. “Richard Wright, Masaoka Shiki, and the Haiku of Confinement” by Christopher Benfey @nybooks
“I believe his haiku were self-developed antidotes against illness...and that breaking down words into syllables matched the shortness of his breath.” https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/25/richard-wright-masaoka-shiki-and-the-haiku-of-confinement/
“I believe his haiku were self-developed antidotes against illness...and that breaking down words into syllables matched the shortness of his breath.” https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/25/richard-wright-masaoka-shiki-and-the-haiku-of-confinement/
3. “Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police” by Jennifer Wilson @JenLouiseWilson @nytimesbooks
“Violence no longer rests on the belief in its utility...but only on the fact of its having existed so long, and being organized by the ruling classes who profit by it.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/books/review/tolstoy-violence-war-and-peace-police.html
“Violence no longer rests on the belief in its utility...but only on the fact of its having existed so long, and being organized by the ruling classes who profit by it.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/books/review/tolstoy-violence-war-and-peace-police.html
4. “Abolitionist Alternatives” by Angela Davis @bookforum
“...‘punishment’ does not follow from ‘crime’ in...neat and logical sequence but rather punishment...is linked to the agendas of politicians...” https://www.bookforum.com/politics/an-excerpt-from-are-prisons-obsolete-24084
“...‘punishment’ does not follow from ‘crime’ in...neat and logical sequence but rather punishment...is linked to the agendas of politicians...” https://www.bookforum.com/politics/an-excerpt-from-are-prisons-obsolete-24084
5. “Burned in Paris” by Rafia Zakaria @rafiazakaria @thebafflermag
“The reference point of art made by people of color was essentially loot, the material from raided graves of ancestors...” https://thebaffler.com/alienated/burned-in-paris-zakaria
“The reference point of art made by people of color was essentially loot, the material from raided graves of ancestors...” https://thebaffler.com/alienated/burned-in-paris-zakaria
6. “Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Pals Off the Hook” by Jacob Silverman @SilvermanJacob @newrepublic
“...whatever kind of monster Epstein was, he wasn’t alone.” https://newrepublic.com/article/158201/letting-jeffrey-epsteins-pals-off-hook
“...whatever kind of monster Epstein was, he wasn’t alone.” https://newrepublic.com/article/158201/letting-jeffrey-epsteins-pals-off-hook
7. “Chaos, Aggregated: A Pandemic Novelist Takes to Twitter” by Madeline Conway @MadelineRConway @thedrift_mag
“…there was a lot of shouting into the void…no one was preparing the way they should have been.” https://thedriftmag.com/chaos-aggregated/
“…there was a lot of shouting into the void…no one was preparing the way they should have been.” https://thedriftmag.com/chaos-aggregated/
8. “Teaching Shakespeare Under Quarantine” by Andrea Crow @andreacrow @LAReviewofBooks
“During the last few weeks of online teaching...I have felt some of the strongest moments of solidarity with students that I have experienced as a teacher.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/teaching-shakespeare-under-quarantine/
“During the last few weeks of online teaching...I have felt some of the strongest moments of solidarity with students that I have experienced as a teacher.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/teaching-shakespeare-under-quarantine/
9. “The Government Can Afford Anything It Wants” by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein @robinsreport @newrepublic
“Bernanke once noted…when the government pays for things, it is ‘not taxpayer money. We simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account.’” https://newrepublic.com/article/158221/government-can-afford-anythi-wants
“Bernanke once noted…when the government pays for things, it is ‘not taxpayer money. We simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account.’” https://newrepublic.com/article/158221/government-can-afford-anythi-wants
10. “On the Art—and Preservation—of Lushootseed Storytelling” by Jill La Pointe @lithub
“Our ancestors… seize[d] any opportunity to share their wisdom through what Swinomish elder Susie Sampson Peter called ‘a different canoe’ (the tape recorder)...” https://lithub.com/jill-la-pointe-on-the-art-and-preservation-of-lushootseed-storytelling/
“Our ancestors… seize[d] any opportunity to share their wisdom through what Swinomish elder Susie Sampson Peter called ‘a different canoe’ (the tape recorder)...” https://lithub.com/jill-la-pointe-on-the-art-and-preservation-of-lushootseed-storytelling/
11. “Introducing Pierre Klossowski’s ‘The Suspended Vocation’” by Brian Evenson @MusicLitMag
“These are the writers who make up the secret history of literature...who always waver on the verge of invisibility...” https://www.musicandliterature.org/features/2020/6/12/introduction-to-pierre-klossowskis-the-suspended-vocation
“These are the writers who make up the secret history of literature...who always waver on the verge of invisibility...” https://www.musicandliterature.org/features/2020/6/12/introduction-to-pierre-klossowskis-the-suspended-vocation
12. “A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows” by @parul_sehgal @nytimesbooks
“In Victorian England, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith had the gall to believe herself to be an utterly fantastic creature: a person.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/books/review-true-history-first-mrs-meredith-diane-johnson.html
“In Victorian England, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith had the gall to believe herself to be an utterly fantastic creature: a person.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/books/review-true-history-first-mrs-meredith-diane-johnson.html
13. “Mrs. Meredith Finally Gets Her Due” by Vivian Gornick @lithub
“...all I knew was that the writing had cocooned me inside an atmosphere of emotional damage and existential heartbreak that felt large.” https://lithub.com/vivian-gornick-on-the-forgotten-wife-of-victorian-novelist-george-meredith/
“...all I knew was that the writing had cocooned me inside an atmosphere of emotional damage and existential heartbreak that felt large.” https://lithub.com/vivian-gornick-on-the-forgotten-wife-of-victorian-novelist-george-meredith/
14. “Interview with Saidiya Hartman” by Victoria Adukwei Bulley @victoriaadukwei @TheWhiteReview
One of the things that was…important for me to convey was the sensorium of black urban space…The intimacy & proximity & overhearing of this shared utterance https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-saidiya-hartman/
One of the things that was…important for me to convey was the sensorium of black urban space…The intimacy & proximity & overhearing of this shared utterance https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-saidiya-hartman/
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