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After reading the #NYRB "Shithole Cinema" article (paywalled) a couple of months ago, I was looking forward to #RaduJude's "Kontinental '25". It is now on #BFIPlayer and doesn't disappoint. The disturbing collision between self-regard and real events, and the multiple ways to seek to use others to assuage guilt. After viewing the film, David Ehrlich 's IndieWire review added more appreciation.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/19/shithole-cinema-radu-jude-romania/https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/kontinental-25-movie-review-radu-jude-1235096944/
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Speaking of illustration, “Skin of Dreams” has the illustrations by Henri Desbarbieux, which were used when the book was serialized.
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Ah, the #NYRB, where every topic imaginable gets the same amount of intellectual hot air. 🎈 Peter Singer must be thrilled to be sandwiched between climate change and literary gifts. 📚🌍 But hey, at least there's a shop! 💸
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/circling-the-good-thomas-nagel/ #IntellectualDiscussion #PeterSinger #ClimateChange #LiteraryGifts #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the #NYRB, where every topic imaginable gets the same amount of intellectual hot air. 🎈 Peter Singer must be thrilled to be sandwiched between climate change and literary gifts. 📚🌍 But hey, at least there's a shop! 💸
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/circling-the-good-thomas-nagel/ #IntellectualDiscussion #PeterSinger #ClimateChange #LiteraryGifts #HackerNews #ngated -
📗 "Mourning a Breast" by Xi Xi, translated from Chinese into English by Jennifer Feeley
Originally published in 1992, apparently this was one of the first Chinese-language books that openly talked about breast cancer. The author discusses her diagnosis and treatment (mastectomy & radiation), but also just about everything else in her life. The information about cancer might be kind of general knowledge by now, but gives some insight on how taboo and unfamiliar it still was some 30 years ago.
This is one of those memoirs that might suit fiction readers more than people who mostly read non-fiction. The author really follows her interests and thoughts into anything. When you're in the mood, it reads like sitting on a park bench next to an interesting lady who's telling you the most fascinating life stories and you can't wait to hear more. When you're not in the mood, you feel like a cashier and this kind old lady just won't stop talking and the line of customers is getting longer and longer and longer and please, please get on with your day, ma'am!
Funnily enough Xi Xi very much knows her reader, and she doesn't mind you getting impatient or bored. Sometimes when things go on for too long, she gives you hints on where to skip to in the book to get on with her original recounting of her cancer. You go on ahead, I'm not done yet watching the grass move in the wind! She doesn't give a shit, haha.
There's an afterword by the translator that gives a little more context. I was sad to read that Xi Xi passed away in 2022 (not due to cancer) during the translation process, so she never saw this English edition completed. In the book she often talks about English-Chinese translations and comparing international translations for fun, so I assume it must've made her excited to see at least the work getting started.
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The @[email protected] have made the playoffs in 15 straight @[email protected] seasons...@[email protected] will host their 1st Conference Final. So many x-factors in this one for me while it's also one that could be a real slog to get to the final score. Orlando City didn't score a goal on their own vs RBNY this year...but Ojeda wasn't the 10 either. What gives and who has to step up? #MLS #NYRB #OrlandoCitySC #MLSCupPlayoffs
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The Hudson River Derby is about to get really intense.
Can @[email protected] finally break the @[email protected]' playoff dominance? Or will the Red Bulls continue their reign?
Buckle up, because this one will be full of 'WOW' moments. Find it on Apple TV! #NYRB #NYCFC #MLSplayoffs
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"Fundamentally, the Kamala craze reflects the elation and hope and unleashed power of a party base unexpectedly freed from its gloom and despair. The ActBlue movement is back."
Joseph O’Neill: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/08/03/kamalapalooza-harris-trump/
#believe #KamalaHarris #voteBlue #campaign #presidentialCampaign #USElections #USElections2024 #Harris2024 #HarrisForPresident #Democrats #DemocraticParty #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #ActBlue #NYRB #Biden #BidenHarris
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"Fundamentally, the Kamala craze reflects the elation and hope and unleashed power of a party base unexpectedly freed from its gloom and despair. The ActBlue movement is back."
Joseph O’Neill: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/08/03/kamalapalooza-harris-trump/
#believe #KamalaHarris #voteBlue #campaign #presidentialCampaign #USElections #USElections2024 #Harris2024 #HarrisForPresident #Democrats #DemocraticParty #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #ActBlue #NYRB #Biden #BidenHarris
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@reesecommabill @jhill @ATLeagle For real. And likewise the #NSC front office, who love anything the #NYRB FO does.
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@reesecommabill @jhill @ATLeagle For real. And likewise the #NSC front office, who love anything the #NYRB FO does.
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We're Andres Reyes (𝙁𝙊𝙐𝙍) days away from the start of the 2024 @[email protected] season #NYRB
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It’s official:
Due to MLS Preseason for today only I do not like @reesecommabill.#AllForCITY :St_Louis_City_SC: | #NYRB :NY_Red_Bulls: | #mastodonfc
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It’s official:
Due to MLS Preseason for today only I do not like @reesecommabill.#AllForCITY :St_Louis_City_SC: | #NYRB :NY_Red_Bulls: | #mastodonfc
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Former #NYRB :NY_Red_Bulls: Homegrown Jayden Reid is one of the 6 players signed by CITY2 today.
(cc: @reesecommabill)
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Selected Stories: Robert Walser. Foreword by Susan Sontag
#RobertWalser #Writers #Literature #Fiction #Academia #SusanSontag #NYRB
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Selected Stories: Robert Walser. Forward by Susan Sontag
#RobertWalser #Writers #Literature #Fiction #Academia #SusanSontag #NYRB
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I love #reading - based coincidences—as in the one encountered a couple of days ago: while catching up on #NYRB issues, Namwali Serpell's article on #writing in/as one's own or another #gender could've pulled up a chair and joined the conversation in our most recent #podcast episode!
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/11/02/such-womanly-touches-namwali-serpell/
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“The current Hollywood strikes have a precedent in Disney’s golden age, when the company was a hothouse of innovation and punishing expectation….” 📽️ 📰 #film #Movies #Cinema #EntertainmentIndustryLabor #NYRB #Strikes
Storyboards and Solidarity | E. Tammy Kim | The New York Review of Books
https://archive.ph/2023.10.03-150340/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/05/storyboards-and-solidarity-the-disney-revolt-friedman -
#LucyJakub has written a comprehensive, engrossing survey of #HayaoMiyazaki’s work, in #NYRB. It’s mostly unsparing in its criticism & admiration, and made me want to rewatch the films I have seen and watch the ones I haven’t.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/07/13/loves-work-hayao-miyazaki/
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#LucyJakub has written a comprehensive, engrossing survey of #HayaoMiyazaki’s work, in #NYRB. It’s mostly unsparing in its criticism & admiration, and made me want to rewatch the films I have seen and watch the ones I haven’t.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/07/13/loves-work-hayao-miyazaki/
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For #ReadingTheMeow2023, a review of Thomasina by Paul Gallico. I was surprised by what unfolded from this little cat story!
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The Ultimate Deal
Fintan O’TooleTrump’s hoarding of official secrets is both breathtakingly careless and utterly calculated.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/06/10/the-ultimate-deal/
New York Review of Books #NYRB #Trump #trumpindictment #maralago #MAL #treason -
The Ultimate Deal
Fintan O’TooleTrump’s hoarding of official secrets is both breathtakingly careless and utterly calculated.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/06/10/the-ultimate-deal/
New York Review of Books #NYRB #Trump #trumpindictment #maralago #MAL #treason -
"Secrets are a kind of currency. They can be hoarded, but if kept for too long they lose their value. Like all currencies, they must, sooner or later, be used in a transaction—sold to the highest bidder or bartered as a favor for which another favor will be returned. To see the full scale of Donald Trump’s betrayal of his country, it is necessary to start with this reality. .. #NYRB
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"Secrets are a kind of currency. They can be hoarded, but if kept for too long they lose their value. Like all currencies, they must, sooner or later, be used in a transaction—sold to the highest bidder or bartered as a favor for which another favor will be returned. To see the full scale of Donald Trump’s betrayal of his country, it is necessary to start with this reality. .. #NYRB
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What a crazy injury report for Toronto FC's Wednesday game against New York Red Bull!
OUT:
Michael Bradley
Alonso Coello
Matt Hedges
Sigurd Rosted
Jonathan Osorio
Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty (suspension)
Shane O'Neill
Jordan Perruzza
Victor VazquezQUESTIONABLE:
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What a crazy injury report for Toronto FC's Wednesday game against New York Red Bull!
OUT:
Michael Bradley
Alonso Coello
Matt Hedges
Sigurd Rosted
Jonathan Osorio
Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty (suspension)
Shane O'Neill
Jordan Perruzza
Victor VazquezQUESTIONABLE:
Adama Diomande
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Mark O'Connell in the 4/20 #NYRB on varieties of #antihumanism kills it. For ex., on David Benatar's assertion that life is always so bad, we'd be better off dead: "For instance: 'How often does one feel neither too hot nor too cold, but exactly right?' As of this writing, I will grudgingly concede that the room I am sitting in is a little on the chilly side, but not to the extent that I'm ready to succumb to cosmic pessimism; I can always put on a sweater." (40, 42)
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From G. S. Morson's Apr. 6 #NYRB #review of Bob Blaisdell's book on #Chekhov: asked for his bio, Chekhov responded, "In 1890 I made a trip to Sakhalin across Siberia... In 1891 I toured Europe, where I drank splendid wine and ate oysters. In 1892 I strolled with V. A. Tikhonov at [a writer's] name-day party... I have been translated into all languages with the exception of the foreign ones... I am a bachelor. I would like a pension."
N.B., I would also like a pension.
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Might just be the no-brain aftermath of finishing an exhausting project, but Andrew O'Hagan's 3/23/23 #NYRB review of a couple of #HBO histories featured an observation that made me laugh-choke on my #coffee:
"Producing genuine #stories —to say nothing of making #art —is an expensive struggle, especially when so much of the young audience, raised on #TikTok, has an unquenchable desire for free content featuring dancing #cats and videos of their schoolmates being kicked in the nuts."
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This, from Verlyn Klinkenborg, relates to tomorrow’s newsletter: “The atoms in an ancient tree and those in a human being are equally old, formed billions of years ago in the big bang and the early universe. Only the evanescent, organismic shapes those atoms take, as tree or human, can be said to differ in age.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/23/trees-in-themselves-elderflora-jared-farmer/
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#NYRB get their equalizer.
Andrés Reyes gets 🆙 to make it 1-1.
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📚 🔥 The Winter Sale is on! Choose from 101 books from across @NYRB_Imprints. Buy 2 books and save 20%; 3 and save 30%; or 4 or more and save 40%. Free US shipping when you spend $50 or more.🔥 📚 https://www.nyrb.com/collections/2023-winter-sale #nyrb #booksale #books
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If you need me I'll be reading. Please don't need me.
#Mondog #dogsofmastodon #reading #BookToot #BooksofMastodon #nyrb #book #dog #photography @bookstadon -
Are there any book editions that you love? NYRBs are a favorite of mine. Partly because of the stories, partly because they are trade-ish edition size, & third, the covers are always works of art. #BookToot #books #nyrb #christmas #bookstagram #bookstack #bookstodon #friday
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I love the cover of the new Holiday Issue of the #NYRB by Marcel Dzama, who hails from snow-clad Winnepeg, Canada. #Canada #Winter #Holiday #MarcelDzama
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I love the cover of the new Holiday Issue of the #NYRB by Marcel Dzama, who hails from snow-clad Winnepeg, Canada. #Canada #Winter #Holiday #MarcelDzama
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Biggest frustration with increasing magazine/news/blog skimming to replace Twitter’s news content is the extent to which content producers lock down text.
I just want to be able to send text of interesting articles to #pocket. That’s all. #Apple #News sometimes works but sometimes sends “Open this story in Apple News.” #NYRB app sends an iTunes link (?!). PressReader downloads full-page graphics (aargh). Etc.
How much do you want for a subscription to a full-content RSS feed, ffs??
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She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away while they went on living. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. But she must go back. She must assemble. She must find Sally and Peter. And she came in from the little room.
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A fascinating, even affectionate review of public intellectual giant Amartya Sen's early-life autobiography, Home in the World, by Fara Dabholwala in #NYRB. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/becoming-amartya-sen-home-in-the-world #AmartyaSen #HomeInTheWorld #Tagore #Shantiniketan #India #TrinityCollege