Roundup
Lassoing Up Tuesday
James Yeh interviews Diane Williams at The Faster Times.
At The Rumpus, Elissa Bassist wonders, have I earned these cliches?
In a belated look at the NYTBR, the great Harold Bloom reviews a book about the history of anti-Semitism in English literature, Adam Kirsch looks at two books about Heidegger, and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein writes a satire on Theory, in the style of Borges.
io9 rounds up 35 titles for “The Essential Posthuman Science Fiction Reading List.”
The Nation has a new website! Learn about what’s different here, and about their decision to open source here. Kudos and congrats, guys!
Speaking of new websites, n+1 has one, too. The present feature is new fiction by Dy Tran “about” donuts.
A new issue of the Home Video Review of Books!
And last but absolutely not least, the new issue of Propeller features an interview with Kevin Sampsell, one with yours truly, a review of the latest Nicholson Baker, and a whole bunch of other treats besides. Check it out.
Tags: Elissa Bassist, James Yeh, n+1, Propeller, the posthuman
“Of the nearly 200 recognized nation-states in the world today, something like at least half are more reprehensible than even the worst aspects of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians.”
What does this even mean? Harold Bloom is indeed a great critic when he is being a critic. But most of time, in aesthetics as much as politics, he’s a commentator which is to say invent straw enemies to criticise, and in really pernicious ways.
The Goldstein piece was fantastic, though.
Sam Lipsyte’s “The Ask” is invoked in
the front-page-below-the-fold article “Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis”
in Sunday’s NYT Week in Review section.
[…] this a PS to this morning’s roundup: Emily Gould’s And the Heart Says Whatever, written by Eryn Loeb for The Rumpus. […]
“Of the nearly 200 recognized nation-states in the world today, something like at least half are more reprehensible than even the worst aspects of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians.”
What does this even mean? Harold Bloom is indeed a great critic when he is being a critic. But most of time, in aesthetics as much as politics, he’s a commentator which is to say invent straw enemies to criticise, and in really pernicious ways.
The Goldstein piece was fantastic, though.
Sam Lipsyte’s “The Ask” is invoked in
the front-page-below-the-fold article “Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis”
in Sunday’s NYT Week in Review section.