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Shange’s Toussaint was a call to challenge stereotypical representations of Blackness, expressed in the “monolithic idea that everybody is the same ” He was also a prompt to reject intellectual conformism and take charge of one’s destiny, not “sit around waiting for the powers that be”—whether they were white or Black
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine “The Raincoats were a group of women who were, in part, just learning to play their instruments, but their debut album also coincides with the start of a whole artistic sensibility, one of fearless and knowing amateurism,” Pitchfork contributing editor Jenn Pelly writes in her recent book about the origins of the Raincoats, part of Bloomsbury’s
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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
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine A cranky ostrich in a rumpled suit, Kurt Vonnegut might seem an odd fit for the staid Library of America (His advice to young writers? “Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak ”) But Vonnegut, like his hero Mark Twain, has always been something of a paradox—a beloved grouch, a man who has a bad thing to say about almost
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine Jim Sterba’s Nature Wars argues persuasively that humans are losing some kind of property rights struggle with creatures of the wild He cites an extensive history of resolute and sometimes blatantly hostile real-estate invasion by beavers, Canada geese, wild turkeys, and white-tailed deer, all of which were once assumed to be picturesque and even
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine It seems foolish, if not downright irresponsible to feel good about the future in 2010 The disasters of the last decade piled up fast, and apocalyptic fear is now a standard ingredient in the morning commute But what should one prepare for first? September 11-style attacks, oil spills, climate change, the death of languages, the last days of the
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine Syllabi November 12, 2015 Looking through the notebook of an artist or writer is a revelatory experience: To enter their laboratory, where they are free of the weight of expectation, is to witness the unpredictable process in which ideas, materials, forms are first conceived and tested, discarded or developed Notebooks are mysteriously alive—thought
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