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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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readliberties.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social · 4d

Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry
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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · 19d

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 20d

Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption: Brideshead Revisited #literature

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Evelyn Waugh's Decadent Redemption

Brideshead Revisited is one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. It is beloved, but it also provokes antipathy — as it always has. When Evelyn Waugh wrote the novel in 1945 many of hi...

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 12d

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The Last Reader: A Fantasia for Cynthia Ozick

1 The Last Reader in the Whole World All things come to an end. The history of reading begins in the shadows: clay tablets in Mesopotamia; finger-marks on cave walls. How this history ends is more obs...

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 10d

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

#writing #philosophy #spirituality

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Judith Hertog @jbher.bsky.social · 10d

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?  
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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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Michael Opielka @michaelopielka.bsky.social · 10d

Brief Encounters by Michael Walzer libertiesjournal.com/articles/bri...

Brief Encounters - Liberties

I have not lived among famous people. My comrades were lovely men and women rarely celebrated or even mentioned in the mass or mainstream media. But I did meet briefly with people like those described...

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 5d

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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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 10d

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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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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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · Sep 12

If only someone had made a great film about the innate bottomless nihilism of online life, where the ravenous search for depraved stimulation hollows you out, and erases everything human in you...if only... libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

The Empire of Ugliness

1 Few works of art have captured the cesspool that is our social media public square as forcefully as this year’s “Red Rooms,” by Quebecois filmmaker Pascal Plante. The movie introduces us to Kelly-A...

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

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Talking Liberties No. 3, West Bank Terrorism and the Logistics of obliteration · Zoom · Luma

Celeste Marcus and Morten Høi Jensen will discuss Celeste's essay from the summer issue of Liberties, The Other Obliteration:  A Report from the West Bank. For…

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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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readliberties.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social · Sep 7

We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · Sep 3

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The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine

The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · Sep 3

'The people of Gaza have never been in greater need of international intervention. They need help— not only from Israel, from Hamas too. Recognizing a Palestinian State is not a reward for violence; it is the conclusion of a sincere dedication to statecraft.'

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The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine

The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · Sep 4

“One of the things that distinguishes totalitarianism from other kinds of state tyranny is the way in which it invades every nook and cranny of human existence…[it] makes apolitical life impossible, thereby rendering impossible any apolitical treatment of art.”
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Unsentimental Education: Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance

There’s a quote I’m fond of, falsely attributed to Lenin, that “ethics are the aesthetics of the future.” It was in fact coined by Gorky, and as with so many misattributed phrases, it is also misquote...

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 5

From Ihab Hassan's recent essay for @readliberties.bsky.social

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 3

"It is possible for bleeding worlds to be buried and forgotten. It is possible for hope and political prudence to fuse and forge a future worth living for, a future of hope, a future where children expect the sun to rise and set without the sounds of sirens or the sight of bludgeoned corpses."

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CelesteMarcus @celestemarcus.bsky.social · Sep 3

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The End of Terror And The Establishment of Palestine

The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politi...

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thought this piece on the aesthetics of our current era of fascist propaganda, and how it differs meaningfully from Abu Ghraib, was good

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Theater of Cruelty

I visited Manhattan during Labor Day Weekend, 2001, and then returned that November to find the area barricaded by plywood walls, and the walls fliered with the pictures of missing people. Two years ...

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interesting look at the meaning of authenticity in Sinners and A Complete Unknown that calls out something important that tripped me up about the ending of the former: when Stack declares the acoustic blues "real," he, not the film, is the one missing the point

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The immortal Stack sounds like Pete Seeger the representative of authentic folk music when he visits Sammy in Chicago on October 16, 1992. “I don’t like that electric shit as much as the real,” he says, after telling Preacher Boy that he and Mary have collected all the bluesman’s records. Stack doesn’t know what the movie has made clear to the audience, that the blues is the connective tissue of a folk tradition that spans oceans and races as well as centuries: “I miss the real,” he says. Then he turns his vampire eyes on Sammy and asks, “Still got the real in you?” The next thing we see is a National Steel guitar nestled in its case. It can’t be the one Sammy used to split Remmick’s skull, but it looks old enough to be Charlie Patton’s, and it sounds just like it did on the road to Clarksdale, when Preacher Boy thought he was finally free of his father’s faith, auditioning for Stack in the passenger seat of that fancy red Model A, singing the blues.

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · Aug 24

Jared Marcel Pollen (not on here, I don't think) also recently wrote an excellent piece on Weiss for @readliberties.bsky.social

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Unsentimental Education: Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance

There’s a quote I’m fond of, falsely attributed to Lenin, that “ethics are the aesthetics of the future.” It was in fact coined by Gorky, and as with so many misattributed phrases, it is also misquote...

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