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Executive editor @ Liberties Journal wrote a biography of Chaim Soutine

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Jun 2

I wrote about the American Jew's unique responsibility to oppose Israeli illiberalism
Feels particularly relevant today - liberalism is the only system that Jews could trust to keep us safe. It is cratering from both ends and we are assisting in its demise.
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway you can always be listening to this
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street - Live in Copenhagen

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t read this for my sake—my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. They’ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry

Lovers of noir are generally aware that the term was initially applied to the works of a set of US authors and filmmakers in retrospect, from afar, when the French were first granted access to films t...

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 11d

Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.”

A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...

Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.

#writing #philosophy #spirituality

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Judith Hertog @jbher.bsky.social · 11d

My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties.  I wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope?  
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Shangri-La: October Seventh, 2023

I was in Shangri-La, in a village in the Tibetan Himalayas on October 7th, 2023. More precisely, I was in the Shangri-La tourism zone of Yunnan, a popular Chinese travel destination marketed as the “t...

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 11d

Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

The High Art of Distance - Liberties

“Art, of course, lives in history,” said Elizabeth Hardwick. By which she meant that a novel emerges in its own time, and changes in its passage to our own. This — the likeness which is also an unlike...

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 18d

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18d

Yas!! 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼🤩❤️
Go preorder your copy!

CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 18d

BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 18d

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 18d

use code SOUTINE20 at checkout :) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/celes...

Chaim Soutine

A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art wor...

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 18d

BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 20d

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · Sep 17

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The Other Obliteration:  A Report from the West Bank - Liberties

In August of last year a video was posted on X by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem in which four masked settlers, three of them wielding clubs, can be seen walking onto a Palestinian man...

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 20d

from @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's Master of Contradictions

CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 19

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Trump's Gaza Plan, Palestinian Authority's immiseration, and Political Realism (Recorded 9/5/25)

Podcast Episode · Not A Dialogue · 09/05/2025 · 31m

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 19

Listen to Not A Dialogue wherever you get your podcasts

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readliberties.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social · Sep 17

Join Morten Høi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Sep 17

Imagine viewing a child’s dreams as a threat.

The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israel’s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...