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In a moment when censorship is spreading rapidly, and school libraries remain dramatically under-resourced, this bill sends a clear message

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“I had to go through a time of isolation in order to come to terms with who and what I was.” —James Baldwin

James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78

“After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So—Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.”

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“I want to produce my best thought, my best feeling, my best technique.” —Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson, The Art of Fiction No. 239

“I know that black life, like all life, outstrips our perceptions, that so much of black life still remains—to invoke Ellison here—invisible, unseen.”

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John Leguizamo, the only memorable acting from the film. The rest is noise…

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‘My eyes stayed dry, even for Argos the dog – whose adorableness as a puppy is predictably amped up to suit our animal-loving times. If only the human characters had been treated with such serious attention.’ Emily Wilson reviews Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In an interview from October 2024, Yashaddai Owens discusses his film “Jimmy” (2024), an impressionistic, intimate portrait of James Baldwin in Paris, with Elissa Suh. Distributed by Strand Releasing, “Jimmy” will open at @ifccenter.bsky.social today. bit.ly/4wwNZFt

BOMB Magazine | Yashaddai Owens by Elissa Suh

A debut feature film paints an impressionistic, intimate portrait of James Baldwin.

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The inaugural issue of Hyphen journal published this month. The biannual journal publishes work translated from Indian languages into English, and was founded by Vivek Shanbhag and Deepa Ganesh, who featured in Granta 173: India. the-hyphen.in

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Read the finest contemporary writing from across India's many languages, all in one place.

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John Leiguzamo ❤️ Best Supporting Actor. The rest…too long to nothingness.

❤️❤️Aramide and Jason

“At 7 AM on a Saturday, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.” New: Morley Musick participates in a fake plane crash. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Disaster Rehearsal | Morley Musick

At 7 AM on a Saturday in September 2025, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.

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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Blitz Bazawule's extraordinary Afrofuturist fable THE BURIAL OF KOJO (2018) in our BlackStar Film Festival Presents collection! A profusion of dazzling, magical-realist images grace the visually & emotionally stunning debut feature from musician turned filmmaker

“There was something deeply uncomfortable about thinking back on those films now, cultural products of apartheid-era South Africa that peddled undeniably racist myths about indigenous Africans. It felt a little awkward, even in our little group…”

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Carey Baraka confronts his own enjoyment of this shamelessly racist film franchise of the 1980s and 90s and tracks down its survivors in Namibia today. One of them asks: “Now that you are writing this, what will happen next?”: www.equator.org/articles/the...

“Defects of style betray defects of content. There are always defects. Everybody has things they can say well and things they can’t say. And that, of course, has to do as much with society as with a writer’s individual life choices.” —Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson, The Art of Criticism No. 5

“Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.”

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This summer be sure to read HEIRLOOM by Catherine-Esther Cowie, a finalist for the 2026 #FirecrackerAward in Poetry! #SummerReading @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017479...

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"Alito’s peculiar combination of triumph and rage is a fascinating psychological phenomenon, well worth exploring. But this book won’t help with that." Andrew Koppelman on "Alito": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/alito-conservative-justice-reshaped-supreme-court-mollie-hemingway/

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Mollie Hemingway offers up an uncritical biography of Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s most conservative jurist.

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After nearly two years, Janet Gray realized her online romance with a handsome doctor was a scam. In “Inside the Scam,” we and @apnews.com allow you to follow scams as they unfold. https://to.pbs.org/4wY0hXb

Madeline Hollander is participating in “Limitless Time: The Watermill Center Summer Festival” at the Watermill Center on July 25, with a performative engagement with Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach.” Read her interview with Karla Kelsey.

BOMB Magazine | Madeline Hollander by Karla Kelsey

A performative engagement with Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach .

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It’s finally here — the fourth season of the acclaimed podcast “Marlon and Jake Read Dead People” from Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James and executive editor Jake Morrissey. 💀📚 New episodes every Tuesday, wherever you listen to podcasts. Let’s talk dead. 💀 🔗 sites.prh.com/marlon-and-j...

Excerpted from Claire Vaye Watkins’s novel “Yellow Pine” ( @riverheadbooks.bsky.social, 2026), “Instructions” is available to read in our Summer 2026 issue. In this excerpt, Rose, a mysterious homesteader, offers Miles unusual directions on locating her.

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A woman in Tecopa Hot Springs, California, prepares her house sitter to care for more than just houseplants, in this excerpt from Claire Vaye Watkins's…

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“I’ve never had that feeling of block, maybe because I spend so much time dreaming things up before I sit down to write. Only when the characters are refined enough in my mind can I put them into words.” —Marie NDiaye

Marie NDiaye, The Art of Fiction No. 268

“Reading beautiful books can’t be traumatizing. Seeing awful things can be⁠—but reading? I don’t believe in that at all.”

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“We’re all together inside a system that scripts and constructs not just behavior but imagination.” —Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine, The Art of Poetry No. 102

“I think of America as my audience, and inside that space are white people as well as people of color.”

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Don't miss our night of readings with PRS. Join us on July 26 in the PRS Library and celebrate the hidden gems and oddities that make L.A. endlessly fascinating. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/take-fountain-a-night-of-non-fiction-readings-presented-by-larb-tickets-1991876043867

“Ordinary Iraqis,” writes Nabil Salih, “spent the past three months in a no-man’s-land between two wars, and the Western press seemed alarmed more by the fate of Iraq’s oil than by that of its people.”

Baghdad: The Illusion of Peace | Nabil Salih

Close to midnight on Tuesday, April 7, a loud explosion rattled my family’s house in a suburb of Baghdad. A column of white smoke shadowed the alleys

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"I learn that I am but a grain of sand in the magnitude of the Universe, not of much significance at all… Only a fool would not seek to know that of which he was a part of... to know jazz is to know myself thus I study and create. Spirit sound…" Happy Birthday Knoel Scott born July 18, 1956

“While reading, I sometimes stumble upon a passage so evocative it spills over the edge of my intellect, and the surplus is transformed into a bodily sensation that compels me to slam the book shut, stand up, walk around.” — Nuar Alsadir, Animal Joy @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social #booksky

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Twenty Minutes of Silence | Fitzcarraldo Editions

In a family home in the north of France, a crime has been committed. But a crime of what order? Who exactly is the victim and who, if anyone, is the criminal? In Twenty Minutes of Silence, Hélène Bess...

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In her latest novel, THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT, Chloe Aridjis takes us between Mexico and London via dream-like conversations and magic lantern shows. Ardijis was in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, editor of Frieze magazine. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Willem Dafoe stars as the longtime manager of an iconic Vienna hotel fighting to save it from demolition in this Venice Film Festival selection. Gastón Solnicki's THE SOUFFLEUR is now streaming on @kinofilmcollection.

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“I’m gonna stay out here on the margin, and let the center look for me.” —Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134

On female friendships: “Hating, fighting one another, and joining men in their condemnation of ourselves [is] a typical example of what dominated people do.”

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“I wasn’t, and am not, primarily concerned with injustice, but with art.” —Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison, The Art of Fiction No. 8

“The American novel is … a conquest of the frontier; as it describes our experience, it creates it.”

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