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‘The land is not empty, it’s busy and has a vivid history. One of Willa Cather’s theses, which can be traced all the way back to her earliest work, is: other people are here.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on the American novelist.
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‘Not only did European security agencies often provide the intelligence Mossad needed to select its targets, they also helped confirm when those targets were in a location they could be got at.’
Andrew Cockburn on Mossad’s assassination strategy and its legacy.
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‘The Doral Charter also establishes a fund for ports and infrastructure, since one ostensible aim of the military offensive against “cartels” is to recover economic ground lost to China.’
Forrest Hylton on the inaugural Shield of the Americas Summit, from the blog.
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‘The desire to turn Lebanon into another Gaza, articulated by Israeli spokesmen, is being fulfilled with attacks on journalists, the use of undercover operatives and the bombing of displaced families.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog.
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‘If Palestine is a laboratory for the new regional order, the world should be very worried.’
Amjad Iraqi on the Israeli military playbook.
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‘We find in Chekhov a fully empathetic commitment to the internal storytelling of his characters without irony. He sees the world not as a writer, but as one of his characters might.’
James Wood on our Close Readings subscrption podcast. Listen to an extract:
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I like this review by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social because it just so beautifully counters this tendency
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Only just got round to reading this. What a mensch, though. Refused all gifts and blandishments, uninterested in money, refused to take his PM's pension. Compare and contrast every politician since. Liz Truss still raking it in while trashing the UK abroad etc.
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The breeze over the parapet blew
and moved his hair under my hand,
and with his own calm touch he drew
across my throat another wound
and all my senses were subdued.
‘Dark Night’, a poem by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland.
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The inaugural Shield of the Americas Summit was held at one of Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Florida on 7 March. The...
Lots of discourse about oil basically positing it as akin to the value-form, fetishising and metaphysicalizing it and giving it a strong latourian agency, dematerializing it by materializing it and its infrastructure almost too much
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Mossad relied heavily on assorted European security agencies for intelligence on Palestinian activities. Not only did...
‘If there is any lesson from history, it is that few sexual orthodoxies endure.’
James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on gay history and its uses.
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