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"We feel—through our laughter—the pain of living in a culture that only acknowledges the mistreatment of women if it’s so egregious that it’s practically caricature."
Hannah Tennant-Moore explores Jesse James Rose’s debut memoir: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ha-ha-sob-sob/
Hannah Tennant-Moore explores Jesse James Rose’s debut memoir: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ha-ha-sob-sob/
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"We feel—through our laughter—the pain of living in a culture that only acknowledges the mistreatment of women if it’s so egregious that it’s practically caricature."
Hannah Tennant-Moore explores Jesse James Rose’s debut memoir: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ha-ha-sob-sob/
Hannah Tennant-Moore explores Jesse James Rose’s debut memoir: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ha-ha-sob-sob/
“How do we keep African literature in conversation all year, both within and beyond the continent? and How do we pursue access, inclusion, and representation across the full range of African stories and readerships?”
Literary artists Mark Modimola, Lisa Maria Burgess, and Deena Mohamed celebrate African visual storytelling.
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#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling
Every year, Catalyst Press celebrates African and African diasporic literature with #ReadingAfrica Week. This year, with the theme of Open Horizons, the conversation stretches across social media a…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“How do we keep African literature in conversation all year, both within and beyond the continent? and How do we pursue access, inclusion, and representation across the full range of African stories and readerships?”
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Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
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These make good weekday reads, too!
Weekend Reads from FQ!
Showgirl - Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson
Interview with Errol Morris by Matthew Sorrento
Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael and Steven Spielberg
Plus: unlocked archives - Kael's greatest hits from FQ
online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/1
Showgirl - Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson
Interview with Errol Morris by Matthew Sorrento
Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael and Steven Spielberg
Plus: unlocked archives - Kael's greatest hits from FQ
online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/1
Volume 79 Issue 1 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
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October 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
These make good weekday reads, too!
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HBD Pedro Almodóvar!!!
MCCT5: 5)Room Next Door 4)Parallel Mothers 3)Pain & Glory 2)Volver 1)All About my Mother
More:
@filmquarterly.bsky.social: filmquarterly.org/2023/12/12/a...
@pkeough1.bsky.social: artsfuse.org/309069/book-...
@tyburr.bsky.social: www.tyburrswatchlist.com/the-whole-al...
MCCT5: 5)Room Next Door 4)Parallel Mothers 3)Pain & Glory 2)Volver 1)All About my Mother
More:
@filmquarterly.bsky.social: filmquarterly.org/2023/12/12/a...
@pkeough1.bsky.social: artsfuse.org/309069/book-...
@tyburr.bsky.social: www.tyburrswatchlist.com/the-whole-al...
The Whole Almodóvar
All 23 of the Spanish director's feature films are newly available on demand. I rate every last one of them and tell you where to find them.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
HBD Pedro Almodóvar!!!
MCCT5: 5)Room Next Door 4)Parallel Mothers 3)Pain & Glory 2)Volver 1)All About my Mother
More:
@filmquarterly.bsky.social: filmquarterly.org/2023/12/12/a...
@pkeough1.bsky.social: artsfuse.org/309069/book-...
@tyburr.bsky.social: www.tyburrswatchlist.com/the-whole-al...
MCCT5: 5)Room Next Door 4)Parallel Mothers 3)Pain & Glory 2)Volver 1)All About my Mother
More:
@filmquarterly.bsky.social: filmquarterly.org/2023/12/12/a...
@pkeough1.bsky.social: artsfuse.org/309069/book-...
@tyburr.bsky.social: www.tyburrswatchlist.com/the-whole-al...
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For our year-end issue cover, FQ has No Other Choice! Inside - Film of the Year: Sinners; Series of the Year: Andor; Interview: Janus Metz on Andor; The Big Lift at 75; Dossier: Franchise Everything!; Reports: Cannes, Bologna; Editor's Notebook: Horror and Humor. Unlocked articles coming soon!!
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
For our year-end issue cover, FQ has No Other Choice! Inside - Film of the Year: Sinners; Series of the Year: Andor; Interview: Janus Metz on Andor; The Big Lift at 75; Dossier: Franchise Everything!; Reports: Cannes, Bologna; Editor's Notebook: Horror and Humor. Unlocked articles coming soon!!
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Aaron Boehmer on finding books and more in community libraries in times like these: "These local libraries gesture toward a different kind of recordkeeping that is grounded in community stewardship rather than state authority."
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Aaron Boehmer on finding books and more in community libraries in times like these: "These local libraries gesture toward a different kind of recordkeeping that is grounded in community stewardship rather than state authority."
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
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#FridayReads is that still a thing, if not, it should be
September 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#FridayReads is that still a thing, if not, it should be
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Lou Stoppard and Lauren Elkin discussing Simone de Beauvoir and in particular two new reissues of her work: AMERICA DAY BY DAY, her account of a US road trip in 1947, and THE IMAGE OF HER, her 1966 novel newly translated by Lauren
July 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Lou Stoppard and Lauren Elkin discussing Simone de Beauvoir and in particular two new reissues of her work: AMERICA DAY BY DAY, her account of a US road trip in 1947, and THE IMAGE OF HER, her 1966 novel newly translated by Lauren
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simone de beauvoir, america day by day (quoted in joanna pocock’s greyhound)
September 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
simone de beauvoir, america day by day (quoted in joanna pocock’s greyhound)
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“I think you can say that all the isms of the various forms of racism—anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, and so on—stem from a resentment on account of an envy, the envy that comes from not having belief in as strong a form.” —Fredric Jameson
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December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“I think you can say that all the isms of the various forms of racism—anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, and so on—stem from a resentment on account of an envy, the envy that comes from not having belief in as strong a form.” —Fredric Jameson
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'A novel which is rich in character, smart and pacy. Yemi Dipeolu brings a brilliant new voice to the thriller genre.'
@lvmatthews.bsky.social on Kiss Marry Kill, out now in ebook and in paperback from 23 April 🔥
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@lvmatthews.bsky.social on Kiss Marry Kill, out now in ebook and in paperback from 23 April 🔥
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December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
'A novel which is rich in character, smart and pacy. Yemi Dipeolu brings a brilliant new voice to the thriller genre.'
@lvmatthews.bsky.social on Kiss Marry Kill, out now in ebook and in paperback from 23 April 🔥
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@lvmatthews.bsky.social on Kiss Marry Kill, out now in ebook and in paperback from 23 April 🔥
linktr.ee/kissmarrykil...
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"Reading these works feels like standing inside a crucible, experiencing the fastest speed at which A can become B." Jeffrey Wasserstrom in conversation with Xue Yiwei and Nan Z. Da about Shakespeare’s legacy in China. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/king-lear-goes-to-china/
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Reading these works feels like standing inside a crucible, experiencing the fastest speed at which A can become B." Jeffrey Wasserstrom in conversation with Xue Yiwei and Nan Z. Da about Shakespeare’s legacy in China. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/king-lear-goes-to-china/
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“It was clear to African populations that self-reliance was the only way to survive predatory imperial states.” How indigenous West African communities fought the European slave trade.
How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade
Compelling evidence of massive African resistance to Atlantic slavery can be found from the very onset of the European colonial arrival on the con-tinent. When the Portuguese gained control of the …
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December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“It was clear to African populations that self-reliance was the only way to survive predatory imperial states.” How indigenous West African communities fought the European slave trade.
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"Preservation can, when led by artists and community members, become as much an act of imagination as one of maintenance."
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"Preservation can, when led by artists and community members, become as much an act of imagination as one of maintenance."
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
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"I have been haunted by 'King Lear' for more than half a century. But for the first three decades, it was not the play itself." Jeff Wasserstrom speaks with Xue Yiwei and Nan Z. Da about Shakespeare’s legacy in China: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/king-lear-goes-to-china/
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"I have been haunted by 'King Lear' for more than half a century. But for the first three decades, it was not the play itself." Jeff Wasserstrom speaks with Xue Yiwei and Nan Z. Da about Shakespeare’s legacy in China: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/king-lear-goes-to-china/
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Now playing on the Criterion Channel 😍
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Now playing on the Criterion Channel 😍
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Today, on the BBC's World Service, Vibeke Venema interviews Annie Ernaux: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Outlook, Annie Ernaux: ‘My mum burned my teenage diaries’
The shopkeeper’s daughter who won the Nobel for her fearless, taboo-breaking writing
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December 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Today, on the BBC's World Service, Vibeke Venema interviews Annie Ernaux: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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Are you The Archivist, The Detective, The Ghost-Hunter, The Librarian, The Poet or The Traveller?
Find out at the Faber Members Christmas Market on Tuesday 9 December. We'll have something special for you to discover.
faber.co.uk/journal/faber-members-christmas-market/
Find out at the Faber Members Christmas Market on Tuesday 9 December. We'll have something special for you to discover.
faber.co.uk/journal/faber-members-christmas-market/
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Are you The Archivist, The Detective, The Ghost-Hunter, The Librarian, The Poet or The Traveller?
Find out at the Faber Members Christmas Market on Tuesday 9 December. We'll have something special for you to discover.
faber.co.uk/journal/faber-members-christmas-market/
Find out at the Faber Members Christmas Market on Tuesday 9 December. We'll have something special for you to discover.
faber.co.uk/journal/faber-members-christmas-market/
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“In the end, ‘My Son, the Priest’ is less a memoir of conversion than one of mutual acceptance: between mother and son, doubt and faith, ambivalence and devotion.”
Karen Park reviews Kristin Grady Gilger’s book about her son’s choice: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ambivalence-and-devotion/
Karen Park reviews Kristin Grady Gilger’s book about her son’s choice: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ambivalence-and-devotion/
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“In the end, ‘My Son, the Priest’ is less a memoir of conversion than one of mutual acceptance: between mother and son, doubt and faith, ambivalence and devotion.”
Karen Park reviews Kristin Grady Gilger’s book about her son’s choice: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ambivalence-and-devotion/
Karen Park reviews Kristin Grady Gilger’s book about her son’s choice: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ambivalence-and-devotion/
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For @nplusonemag.com I wrote about the abandoned city of Varosha and the dream — long dormant, now stirring once again — of a reunified Cyprus
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December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
For @nplusonemag.com I wrote about the abandoned city of Varosha and the dream — long dormant, now stirring once again — of a reunified Cyprus
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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From the moment she became the first deaf actress to win an Oscar, Marlee Matlin worked to change that. Shoshannah Stern’s documentary explores the life and career of the trailblazing actress and activist. Learn more and stream it on Kino Film Collection:
‘Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore’ Is a Celebration of Deaf Achievement
Shoshannah Stern’s ‘Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore’ tells the life story of Marlee Matlin, who became the first deaf actor to win an Oscar when she won Best Actress for her role in ‘Children of a…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
From the moment she became the first deaf actress to win an Oscar, Marlee Matlin worked to change that. Shoshannah Stern’s documentary explores the life and career of the trailblazing actress and activist. Learn more and stream it on Kino Film Collection: