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The cynicism, cruelty and lies that now define Israel are infectious. The US is certainly infected by them.
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Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...
Roadrunning: Joshua Clover in Conversation with Alex Abramovich
November 10, 2021 – Emails about rock ’n’ roll freedom, American capitalism, and automobiles.
www.theparisreview.org
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Peter Dutton made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
Honest Peter Dutton Ad
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Ryan Ruby’s latest?
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They have more power in the end

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Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say

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The view from our Berlin apt just now.
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Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories: two novels (this ed 1945). This is one of the few volumes I long lusted for before I acquired it. It is such a handsome thing. Then I came across it quite by chance in Balfour Books, one of Toronto’s best used bookstores, while attending a conference there.
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The sooner Musk gets his ass to Mars the better.
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I believe the world’s moral compass will one day be restored.

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Didier Eribon, Retour a Reims (1980). A famous (Bourdieuean) reflection on/theorization of the author’s life (a provincial queer working class lad’s rise up the academic ladder into the petit bourgeoisie) as triggered by a trip back to his home town upon his dad’s death. Interesting, very French.
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Not sure how anti-authoritarian Ukraine is in the end. It is still very corrupt, billions are being siphoned off by war profiteers who will likely become the next generation of the oligarchs who originally put Zelensky into power.
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The Ukraine situation doesnt in fact divide into a good guys v bad guys scenario and we should resist slipping back into cold war melodrama thinking.
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The last dated Gertrud Kauders drawing we have. So cool!
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C.P. Snow, Death under Sail (1932). Nice cover, lousy book. What a creep was C.P. Snow!
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Italo Calvino, Our Ancestors. I have vivid memories of reading this book, astonished, on the London Northern Line in the days I worked in advertising in Hyde Park and lived on Parliament Hill. “Baron in the Trees” in particular really got to me, and it remains an ur-text.
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Ladies… this advice, written on marriage in a pamphlet by a suffragette in
1918 is still relevant today 🤣
It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales.
Advice on Marriage. TO YOUNG LADIES. 1. Do not marry at all. 2. But if you must, avoid the Beauty Men, Flirts, and the Bounders, Tailor's Dummies, and the Football Enthusiasts. 3. Look for a Strong, Tame Man, a Fire-lighter, Coal-getter, Window Cleaner, and Yard Swiller. 4. Don't except too much, most men are lazy, selfish, thoughtless, lying, drunken, clumsy, heavy-footed, rough, unmanly brutes, and need taming. 5. All Bachelors are, and many are worse still. 6. If you want him to be happy, Feed the Brute. 7. The same remark applies to Dogs. 8. You will be wiser not to chance it isn't worth the risk
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My Secret Life (1966). The famous (or just once famous?) Victorian male hetero porn book which the late great Steven Marcus edited and brought back into circulation, upon which I think it became something of a bestseller. One of the more, how to put it?, perverse pathways into 19thc England.
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A Gertrud Kauders work on paper
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So this is what it is like

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BCharles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944) I’ve vague memories of reading this bestseller in my adolescence and think I saw the movie too. If my memory is sound, the dustjacket here isn’t very appropriate. But pb publishers of the period weren’t concerned with the fit between the jacket and the work
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Launch event for From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey TONIGHT (6:30) at @strandbookstore

Tom Fitzharris, the recipient of these letters, will be speaking with Robert Greskovic, a noted dance critic and longtime friend of Gorey's.

www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
Gorey's envelopes event
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Politics is a mugs game. But we are all mugs.
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Kirsty Bell, The Undercurrents. I enjoyed this as most people interested in Berlin will. An American art-historian’s divorce lands her with a largish building beside the Landwehr canal and she becomes obsessed by its past. Fascinating.
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Forceful detailed essay on Germany’s profoundly disturbing failure to acknowledge what is going on in Israel
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Can we please just put Bob Dylan out of our lives? How hard would that be? He deserves a rest.
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Mary McCarthy, The Group Everyone read this when I was young. Before feminism, before the pill, before the ‘career woman’, it’s about a bunch of Vasser girls out of college. It’s more about class thansex and gender, even if its historical role was to intensify women’s awareness of how gender works.

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Trump wants to buy Greenland, he wants Canada to become another US state, he wants Gaza to turn into a real estate opportunity for developers like him. But he knows very well all this is bullshit, none of it is going to happen. His reasons for saying such things are political.
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Wow.
RTL+'s 4-er true crime tv series, based on Die Zest's podcast, is hands on some of the best tv I've watched, ever.

not sure how to see this outside of the Republic, but if you can, do it.

abolition, structural racism, reparations, civil cruelty

must see.
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