- Man, Myth, Legend – Bookforum Magazine
A look at artistic representations of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution through the ages – Sudhir Hazareesingh
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine Jem Calder’s Reward System is a fractionated fiction for a fragmented world: one in which the means of connection are constantly available, but connection is harder than ever, and everything is linked, but little is shared The book, Calder’s debut, consists of six “ultra-contemporary fictions” that center on two characters, Julia and Nick, old
- The Great Trap for All Americans – Bookforum Magazine
– Maya Jasanoff One hundred and fifty years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, the nation’s first black president paid tribute to “a century and a half of freedom—not simply for former slaves, but for all of us ” It sounds innocuous enough till you start listening to the very different kinds of political rhetoric around us SHARE
- Coal Mountain Elementary by Mark Nowak, with photographs by Ian Teh and . . .
To call Mark Nowak’s haunting new book a collection of poetry would be a bit of a misnomer It would also be misleading to say Nowak is its author The poems in Coal Mountain Elementary comprise three strands of found text; Nowak has selected and braided them, achieving an arresting effect This is a book that exposes the darkest reaches of the global coal industry by using the industry’s
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine Tom Waits For No Man Tom Waits once wrote a two-line poem that summed up his attitude toward life as a public figure: “I want a sink and a drain And a faucet for my fame ” This couplet might seem disingenuous for a performer whose cult-hero career has made little showing on the pop charts, yet Waits has inspired cover hits by the likes of the
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These days the island of Más Afuera—five hundred miles west of Santiago, Chile—may be known only as the place Jonathan Franzen went to spread the ashes of David Foster Wallace, as recounted in a 2011 essay in the New Yorker But in March 1800, Amasa Delano, a ship’s captain from New England, arrived there hoping to fill his holds with sealskins Sealing, like whaling, was a profitable
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Apr May 2019 CHARLOTTE SHANE: David Shields ’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power and Lili Boisvert ’s Screwed: How Women Are Set Up to Fail at Sex
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