When poetry and politics converge, Part II
Melville House Interns
Last week, we spoke of when poetry and politics converge, and now we give you a brief sampling of how the poetry blogs have been responding to the state of… Read more »
Last week, we spoke of when poetry and politics converge, and now we give you a brief sampling of how the poetry blogs have been responding to the state of… Read more »
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the Amazon reader comments” — said no political leader… Read more »
In the American Prospect, Harold Myerson considers the legacy of Alex Cockburn, who died last Friday at 71, by revisiting his peculiar reaction to the demolition of Pantheon Books in… Read more »
The People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street observe that books have played a crucial role in the OWS. As they write on their Facebook page: Books have become a key… Read more »
You might have missed this: Occupy is now video-game fodder. Software developer Treyarch has announced that the villain of its forthcoming game, Black Ops 2, is Raul Menendez, the imagined… Read more »
This week, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival honors the most creative work in the ad industry, and one of the biggest winners is a campaign to save a small… 1 / Read more »
Ah, code names! As readers of Trevor Paglen’s I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me know, there’s nothing like squirreling around in the… 1 / Read more »
No judgment here, but it’s more than a little interesting that six of the anonymous sources who spoke to John Heilemann for his New York magazine story about President Obama’s reelection… 3 / Read more »
There’s been a new development in the ongoing debates in Israel over book-pricing. As Haaretz reports, about 270 authors, including heavyweights Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman, have sent… Read more »
Just a day before his extradition case will be decided before the British Supreme Court, Julian Assange debuted a new episode of his TV show. His guests: a number of… Read more »