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Books: Literary Review Of Canada – April 2023 Issue

A Series Interrupted | Literary Review of Canada

Literary Review of Canada – April 2023:

Crisis Mismanagement: Homelessness in our largest city

Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic‘ Edited by Greg Cook and Cathy Crowe

Canada’s major cities have faced the humanitarian disaster of homelessness for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a massive deficit in social programs and widespread inattention to human rights. Are municipal public services designed to essentially produce displacement? Or can we do something to end the growing problem of urban homelessness in Canada?

Left Behind – Maybe we’re just not that into them

‘From Layton to Singh: The 20-Year Conflict behind the NDP’s Deal with the Trudeau Liberals’ by Matt Fodor

“As it entered the twenty-first century, the New Democratic Party of Canada ( NDP) faced its greatest identity crisis since its founding four decades earlier,” writes Toronto-based author and political scientist Matt Fodor, in his recent book From Layton to Singh.

Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – March 20, 2023

Sergio García Sánchez's “Pulling Ahead” | The New Yorker
Art by Sergio García Sánchez, March 2023

The New Yorker – March 20, 2023 issue:

What Conversation Can Do for Us

Two figures talking through speech bubbles that weave into one another.

Our culture is dominated by efforts to score points and win arguments. But do we really talk anymore?

There was once a time when strangers talked to one another, sometimes eagerly. “In past eras, daily life made it necessary for individuals to engage with others different from themselves,” Paula Marantz Cohen explains. In those moments of unpredictability and serendipity, we confronted difference. There were no smartphones, message boards, or online factions. Maybe because life moved at a slower pace, and every interaction wasn’t so freighted with political meaning, we had the opportunity to recognize our full humanity. Nowadays, she argues, we are sectarian and “self-soothing,” having fallen out of such practice. What we need is to return to the basics: to brush up on the art of conversation.

A Coup at the WestView News

Newspapers and a highheel shoe sitting on stairs.

A succession battle involving a fight for the patronage of Sarah Jessica Parker threatens to stop the presses at a Greenwich Village newspaper.

The Little-Known World of Caterpillars

An illustrated collection of colorful caterpillars drawn in marker.

An entomologist races to find them before they disappear.

Caterpillars are to lepidoptera—butterflies and moths—what grubs are to beetles and maggots are to flies; they are larvae. Even among nature lovers, larvae tend to be unloved. For every ten butterfly fanciers, there are approximately zero caterpillar enthusiasts. The reason for this will, to most, seem obvious. The worm in the apple is usually a caterpillar.

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement-March 10, 2023

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Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (March 10, 2023) –

This week’s @TheTLS, features Michele Pridmore-Brown on parenthood; @noosarowiwa on paradise; @TobyLichtig on documentaries; Carlos Fonseca on Pilar Quintana; @wendymoore99 on surgery; new poems by Karen Solie, @RomalynAnte and Steve Ely – and more.

Preview: London Review Of Books – March 16, 2023

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London Review of Books (LRB) – March 16, 2023 issue:

Libel Tourism

Defamation isn’t the only legal threat to investigative journalism. Data protection and privacy laws are increasingly used as alternatives to a libel claim. Unlike a defamation writ, which claimants generally have only a year to file, data protection and privacy actions can be taken up to six years after publication, and there is no defence of truth.

Medieval Selfhood

Medieval Christians understood themselves to be interconnected to an extent that would surprise many people today, at least in Western cultures. Their minds and hearts were legible to other people as well as to God and the devil, and they saw themselves as vulnerable to interference from human and supernatural forces, to both good and bad ends.

Revolutionary Portraiture

The majority of women artists who exhibited at the Salon in the revolutionary period had never before shown their work in public. During the 1790s and early 1800s, several of them submitted self-portraits or portraits of other women artists, presenting, implicitly, an idea of the female painter as both a subject for portraiture and a professional in her own right.

Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – March 13, 2023

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The New Yorker – March 13, 2023 issue:

How Russian Journalists in Exile Are Covering the War in Ukraine

Ekaterina Kotrikadze, TV Rain’s news director, at the studio in Latvia.

Dozens of media outlets have fled to the capital of Latvia, only to encounter a distrustful public and a set of strictly enforced laws and regulations.

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Biomilq and the New Science of Artificial Breast Milk

A baby sucks on a bottle attached to an intricate machine of pipes and beakers that form the silhouette of a breast-feeding mother.

The biotech industry takes on infant nutrition.

Why We Never Have Enough Time

An alarm clock without a traditional clock face; instead we can see inside it to a beautiful nature scene.

In her new book, Jenny Odell argues that structural forces have commodified our moments, days, and years. Can our lost time be reclaimed?

The New York Review Of Books – March 23, 2023

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The New York Review of Books – March 23, 2023 issue:

Fascism’s Poster Girl

Mussolini's Daughter

Edda Mussolini was once considered “the most dangerous woman in Europe,” but did she have real political power?

Mussolini’s Daughter

The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

By Caroline Moorehead

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Bigger, Deeper, and More ‘Fucked Up’

When asked why HBO took such bold risks on shows that were darker, more libidinal, and more surreal than than those on other networks, a company executive replied, “Because we can.”

It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO by Felix Gillette and John Koblin

Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers by James Andrew Miller

Bloody Panico

The British Conservative Party was once one of the great popular political movements of Europe. What happened?

Tory Nation: How One Party Took Over by Samuel Earle

Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson

Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle Against Covid by Matt Hancock with Isabel Oakeshott

The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story by Sebastian Payne

Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss by Harry Cole and James Heale

The Reign: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain, Part 1: The Way It Was, 1952–79 by Matthew Engel

The Worm in the Apple: A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron by Christopher Tugendhat

Books: Literary Review Magazine – March 2023

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Literary Review – March 2023 issue:

Our Man in Ajmer

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire By Nandini Das

Slow Boat to China

Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning By Edward Weech

 It Could Do with a Lick of Paint

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man By Edward Geoffrey Stanley (Edited by Angus Hawkins)

Reviews: Times Literary Supplement-March 3, 2023

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Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (March 3, 2023) – Peter Frankopan likes to take the long view. In The Silk Roads (2015) Oxford University’s professor of global history argued that the Persian Empire and its trade routes were central to the rise of western civilization, not, as traditionally thought, Rome, Greece and Egypt. In The Earth Transformed Frankopan’s timeline is considerably longer: he looks at climate change since the formation of the Earth 4.5 billion years ago.

The cold eyes of heaven

Assaad Bouab and Janet McTeer in Phaedra

Euripidean revenge tragedies that continue to trouble us

When the North Sea came ashore

Canvey Island, February 21, 1953

A revelatory account of the North Sea flood of 1953

Culture & Politics: The Drift – February 28, 2023

The Drift Magazine – February 28, 2023 Issue – We called it heterosexual oppression. Like replacing a piece of your skull with a smartwatch.

Electric Bodies | Medical Technology Takes Over

Through a growing focus on healthcare monitoring in recent years, Apple has positioned its wearables as essential accessories for the technophile and the casual hypochondriac alike. 

Like so many other predictions of collapse, exaggerated.  Methylphenidate  for Miriam. Two executives showed up for a meeting dressed as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. A source of revolutionary Marxist critiques, an outright conservative, a peddler of flimsy conspiracy theories. Some days I am so filled with myself I can see nothing. I am not going to apologize for the empire, for our history. Bravissima! Stealth, he kept no socials. She had martini-glass tits. In this city every boy is an isotope. Enter among the truly civilized peoples. Cruising for difference. The body of a bear, the nose of an elephant, the paws of a tiger, the tail of an ox, and needle-like hairs. Wainscoting for an all-knowing liberalism. How can a narrow regional tabloid claim itself The World? The surrealist didn’t prescribe life-sized butter ears. Spend how you want the sixtyish years you have left of your life

Words Exchanged | Italophone Somalia, Then and Now

“Italian language teaching is back in Somalia!” the Italian embassy in Somalia tweeted in late September 2021, announcing a new program at the Somali National University that would reintroduce the language of the country’s former colonizer.

Reviews: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 24, 2023

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Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (February 24, 2023) features Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the US and the First World War; @SarahJLonsdale on Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby; @nicolaupsonbook on Josephine Tey; @MirandaFrance1 on the Condor trials; @cesca_peacock on Poets in Vogue – and more.