Tag Archives: Protest

London Review Of Books – March 7, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – February 1, 2024: The latest issue features Mothers and Others – ‘The Pole’ and Other Stories by  J.M. Coetzee….

Death of the Book

By Adam Smyth

Sometimes we ignore a book’s material presence: absorbed, ‘good’ reading is often figured as a forgetting of the material conditions of book, body, room and time, even though these conditions affect how we read. With certain other books it makes no sense to separate text from object.

Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book 
by Brian Cummings.

Give your mom a gun

By Geoff Mann

There are seventy million more privately held guns in the US – around four hundred million of them – than there are people. AR-15s comprise about 5 per cent of the total, but it is currently the best-selling rifle in the country.

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson.

Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America 
by Andrew C. McKevitt.

London Review Of Books – February 8, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – February 1, 2024: The latest issue features Origins of the Gay Novel; Protest, what is it good for?; Poems of Enheduana; Caspar David Friedrich, Israel’s War and more….

A Circular Motion

By James Butler

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution 
by Vincent Bevins.

The Populist Moment: The Left after the Great Recession 
by Anton Jäger and Arthur Borriello.

Wreckage of Ellipses

By Anna Della Subin

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author 
by Sophus Helle.

World News Podcast: Covid-19 Protests In Germany & Chile, Cases Spike In India & France

DW Radio News 24/7 reports: Germans protest government Covid-19 measures in Berlin, Chilean protests, cases spike in India and France, and ‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43.