@adamshatz.bsky.social
Outstanding piece by @melindacooper.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social on the Epstein files and the billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right who preside over an economy of masters and servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org
February 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Outstanding piece by @melindacooper.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social on the Epstein files and the billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right who preside over an economy of masters and servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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‘Beauvoir described Cold War America as a coercively cheerful country that refused to confront the reality of death, that expressed its horror of the body in advertisements for deodorant and laxatives.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
‘Beauvoir described Cold War America as a coercively cheerful country that refused to confront the reality of death, that expressed its horror of the body in advertisements for deodorant and laxatives.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Arundhati Roy, in her statement withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival after Wim Wenders’s appalling press conference, shows, again, what artistic integrity looks like. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment
Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Arundhati Roy, in her statement withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival after Wim Wenders’s appalling press conference, shows, again, what artistic integrity looks like. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Morton Feldman: ‘What the world doesn’t need is one more twenty minute contemporary piece…We need a good hour and twenty minute piece…’ Elliott Carter: ‘Who’s we?’ Buffalo, 1979, filmed by DA Pennebaker. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZzE...
Morton Feldman & Elliott Carter in Buffalo
YouTube video by Sonorgie
m.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Morton Feldman: ‘What the world doesn’t need is one more twenty minute contemporary piece…We need a good hour and twenty minute piece…’ Elliott Carter: ‘Who’s we?’ Buffalo, 1979, filmed by DA Pennebaker. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZzE...
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This essay comes at you like a torrent. America, that polluted river with its promise of fresh water www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
This essay comes at you like a torrent. America, that polluted river with its promise of fresh water www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Invoking the memory of Jewish persecution to denounce the assault on immigrants today is not an offense but a moral imperative
Peter Gordon on the meaning of ‘Never Again’ in our times
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Peter Gordon on the meaning of ‘Never Again’ in our times
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Never Again, Once Again | Peter E. Gordon
A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts
www.nybooks.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Invoking the memory of Jewish persecution to denounce the assault on immigrants today is not an offense but a moral imperative
Peter Gordon on the meaning of ‘Never Again’ in our times
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Peter Gordon on the meaning of ‘Never Again’ in our times
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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The full transcript of Adam Shatz’s LRB winter lecture is lengthy, knotty & worth every second. What America means, in theory & in practice - & specifically what it means now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The full transcript of Adam Shatz’s LRB winter lecture is lengthy, knotty & worth every second. What America means, in theory & in practice - & specifically what it means now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The Nation has published an issue online featuring articles by writers from Gaza - a timely reminder that Gaza is not at peace, that its people are still undergoing unspeakable horrors and remain at the mercy of Israel and its allies - above all the United States. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
www.thenation.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:17 AM
The Nation has published an issue online featuring articles by writers from Gaza - a timely reminder that Gaza is not at peace, that its people are still undergoing unspeakable horrors and remain at the mercy of Israel and its allies - above all the United States. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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‘Jazz embodied the promise of another country, one that was true to its professed ideals. Its very existence seemed miraculous. A vernacular music, created by the descendants of slaves, had evolved into the country’s greatest art form.’
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
‘Jazz embodied the promise of another country, one that was true to its professed ideals. Its very existence seemed miraculous. A vernacular music, created by the descendants of slaves, had evolved into the country’s greatest art form.’
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A brilliant, elegant and sprawling account of the unfolding American disaster, whose roots are deep and historic and whose impact is sadly global.
@adamshatz.bsky.social
@adamshatz.bsky.social
‘The warnings of King and Adams could hardly seem more prophetic. American democracy has been progressively hollowed out by forever wars, deindustrialisation, the tyranny of wealth and the creation of an archipelago of maximum security prisons.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM
A brilliant, elegant and sprawling account of the unfolding American disaster, whose roots are deep and historic and whose impact is sadly global.
@adamshatz.bsky.social
@adamshatz.bsky.social
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...the first federal refugee resettlement programme, established in 1794, allocated the equivalent of $440 million to assist French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution. Washington, et al. welcomed the slaveholders into a country where slavery was the very condition of the white man’s freedom.
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
...the first federal refugee resettlement programme, established in 1794, allocated the equivalent of $440 million to assist French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution. Washington, et al. welcomed the slaveholders into a country where slavery was the very condition of the white man’s freedom.
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‘Donald Trump’s presidency is many things, but it is, above all, a violent attempt to make America synonymous with his vision of a fortress state at war with immigrants, shadowy globalists, “narco-terrorists” and domestic enemies.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
‘Donald Trump’s presidency is many things, but it is, above all, a violent attempt to make America synonymous with his vision of a fortress state at war with immigrants, shadowy globalists, “narco-terrorists” and domestic enemies.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Informative episode on Iran, where @adamshatz.bsky.social speaks to Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian about the evolution of public dissent in Iran since 1979 and why the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement of 2022 opened the way to more overtly revolutionary protest.
On Politics: A New Age of Protest in Iran
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 28/01/2026 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Informative episode on Iran, where @adamshatz.bsky.social speaks to Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian about the evolution of public dissent in Iran since 1979 and why the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement of 2022 opened the way to more overtly revolutionary protest.
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‘The warnings of King and Adams could hardly seem more prophetic. American democracy has been progressively hollowed out by forever wars, deindustrialisation, the tyranny of wealth and the creation of an archipelago of maximum security prisons.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 5:10 PM
‘The warnings of King and Adams could hardly seem more prophetic. American democracy has been progressively hollowed out by forever wars, deindustrialisation, the tyranny of wealth and the creation of an archipelago of maximum security prisons.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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On the podcast, @adamshatz.bsky.social talks to Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian about the evolution of public dissent in Iran since 1979 and why the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement of 2022 opened the way to more overtly revolutionary protest.
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
On Politics: A New Age of Protest in Iran
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 28/01/2026 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:17 AM
On the podcast, @adamshatz.bsky.social talks to Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian about the evolution of public dissent in Iran since 1979 and why the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement of 2022 opened the way to more overtly revolutionary protest.
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Just published by Editions Barzakh in Algiers: "Lire, écrire et traduire #MaïssaBey". Includes contributions from Maïssa Bey's translators into Arabic, Italian, and Swedish, scholars from Algeria, France, and Mauritania, as well as authors and publishers #editionsbarzakh #Algerianliterature
January 28, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Just published by Editions Barzakh in Algiers: "Lire, écrire et traduire #MaïssaBey". Includes contributions from Maïssa Bey's translators into Arabic, Italian, and Swedish, scholars from Algeria, France, and Mauritania, as well as authors and publishers #editionsbarzakh #Algerianliterature
On this week's episode of 'On Politics' on the @lrb.co.uk podcast, I speak with the novelist Amir Ahmadi Arian and the anthropologist and filmmaker Chowra Makaremi about the protests and repression in Iran.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@chowmak.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@chowmak.bsky.social
Podcast: Chowra Makaremi, Amir Ahmadi Arian and Adam Shatz · On Politics: A New Age of Protest in Iran
www.lrb.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 6:42 PM
On this week's episode of 'On Politics' on the @lrb.co.uk podcast, I speak with the novelist Amir Ahmadi Arian and the anthropologist and filmmaker Chowra Makaremi about the protests and repression in Iran.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@chowmak.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@chowmak.bsky.social
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Issue 48.02 is now online, featuring:
@adamshatz.bsky.social on visions of America
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran
Daisy Hay on Charles Fox and Edmund Burke
Rosemary Hill on Jessica Mitford
@alexclapp.bsky.social in the Amazon
and Jonathan Rée on Alexandre Kojève.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@adamshatz.bsky.social on visions of America
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran
Daisy Hay on Charles Fox and Edmund Burke
Rosemary Hill on Jessica Mitford
@alexclapp.bsky.social in the Amazon
and Jonathan Rée on Alexandre Kojève.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Issue 48.02 is now online, featuring:
@adamshatz.bsky.social on visions of America
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran
Daisy Hay on Charles Fox and Edmund Burke
Rosemary Hill on Jessica Mitford
@alexclapp.bsky.social in the Amazon
and Jonathan Rée on Alexandre Kojève.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@adamshatz.bsky.social on visions of America
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran
Daisy Hay on Charles Fox and Edmund Burke
Rosemary Hill on Jessica Mitford
@alexclapp.bsky.social in the Amazon
and Jonathan Rée on Alexandre Kojève.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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‘How different were we? At least the people whom America had lectured hadn’t elected their dictators. “This is not who we are,” Biden reassured us. In fact, it is, and the rest of the world sees this all too clearly.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 5:55 PM
‘How different were we? At least the people whom America had lectured hadn’t elected their dictators. “This is not who we are,” Biden reassured us. In fact, it is, and the rest of the world sees this all too clearly.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘As a swaggering and unspeakably tacky casino has taken the place of a smug city on a hill, the American empire has undergone a great, even an overdue, humbling.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture ‘Another Country’, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture ‘Another Country’, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM
‘As a swaggering and unspeakably tacky casino has taken the place of a smug city on a hill, the American empire has undergone a great, even an overdue, humbling.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture ‘Another Country’, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture ‘Another Country’, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The video of my LRB lecture, ‘Another Country,’ on visions of America, has been posted on the LRB website: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z0z...
Adam Shatz: Another Country
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
m.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The video of my LRB lecture, ‘Another Country,’ on visions of America, has been posted on the LRB website: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z0z...
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Highly recommend this extraordinary essay on America under Trump by Adam Shatz, a brilliant meditation on a country he has tried to ‘love with sorrow’ even as Trump transforms it into a ‘fortress state’ at war with immigrants and domestic enemies. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Highly recommend this extraordinary essay on America under Trump by Adam Shatz, a brilliant meditation on a country he has tried to ‘love with sorrow’ even as Trump transforms it into a ‘fortress state’ at war with immigrants and domestic enemies. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The lecture that I gave on January 16 in London, the second of the LRB Winter Lectures, is now available online. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
The lecture that I gave on January 16 in London, the second of the LRB Winter Lectures, is now available online. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Lecture last night by Adam Shatz, US editor, London Review of Books: America founded on white supremacy, struggles to understand itself. Both Reps and Dems over last 3 decades have paved way for Trump. (Obama...lots of hope, very little audacity.) Lecture will soon be on YouTube. Worth watching.
January 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Lecture last night by Adam Shatz, US editor, London Review of Books: America founded on white supremacy, struggles to understand itself. Both Reps and Dems over last 3 decades have paved way for Trump. (Obama...lots of hope, very little audacity.) Lecture will soon be on YouTube. Worth watching.