- 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 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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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine The narrator of Argentine novelist César Aira’s 2004 short story “The Cart,” himself a writer, describes the affinity he feels for an errant shopping trolley that can move on its own, “like a little boat full of holes in search of adventure ” “Even our respective techniques were similar,” he writes of the apparently banal vehicle with
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- 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
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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine Sticky Fictions Kerry Howley’s nuanced portraits of whistleblowers and other deep-state dissidents Tarpley Hitt paper trail Penguin Random House CEO steps down; J M Coetzee and global English fiction Karl Ove Knausgaard concludes his autofiction epic James Camp politics Bret Easton Ellis rages against the decline of American culture Andrea Long Chu
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