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News, Newspapers, Views

The New York Times — Thursday, October 3, 2024

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Israel Says at Least 8 Soldiers Are Killed in Clashes With Hezbollah

The cross-border fighting appeared to be the first direct ground confrontation between the two sides since Israel invaded Lebanon this week.

A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran

The main questions now are how much the conflict will escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved in the defense of Israel.

Stranded in North Carolina’s Mountains, ‘You Can’t Tell That the World’s Going On’

With no way for cars to get into Bat Cave, N.C., food and water have been dropped off by helicopters or carried over the river on foot or by a raft.

The Moment When Vance Dodged a Jan. 6 Question but Said Plenty

JD Vance sailed fairly smoothly through some 90 minutes of Tuesday’s debate with Tim Walz. Then the subject turned to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

News, Newspapers, Views

The New York Times — Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024

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Iran Launches Barrage of Ballistic Missiles at Israel in Retaliation for Assassinations

The 180 missiles fired at Israel on Tuesday evening sharply escalated the conflict between the two countries and threatened to engulf the Middle East in all-out war.

As Crisis Builds, Lebanon’s Government Is Nowhere to Be Found

Already crippled by years of economic decline, political paralysis and other crises, Lebanon has little but its own citizens’ grit to survive the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.

In Booming Asheville, Residents Rethink Their Sense of Safety

Worries of flooding had not been top of mind as the mountain-ringed city flourished in recent years as a haven for artists, chefs, brewmasters, entrepreneurs and retirees.

Pete Rose, Baseball Star Who Earned Glory and Shame, Dies at 83

One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Reviews, Stories

The New York Review Of Books – October 17, 2024

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The New York Review of Books (September 26, 2024) – The latest issue features:

‘The Death of Some Ideal’

The Irish novelist Anne Enright writes with great prowess and wit about women who make a virtue of getting on with things.

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

The Fact Man

At the heart of Daniel Defoe’s fictional world is a feeling for change, of the mutability and shiftiness of modern life and the people who thrive in it.

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe edited by Nicholas Seager and J.A. Downie

The Problems with Polls

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by G. Elliott Morris

Arts & Literature, Essays, Journalism, Magazines, Previews

Literary Preview: n+1 Magazine – Fall 2024

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@nplusonemag (August 16, 2024): The ‘Inside Job’ issue features Pope Fiction, My AI Could Paint That, Literal Death Drive, Raven Leilani on Grief Writing; Biden – A Retrospective and A Satire by Saidiya Hartman…

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Literary Preview: n+1 Magazine – Spring 2024

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@nplusonemag (April 23, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Passage’ – Fast fashion nation. Six months of genocide in Gaza. Human_Fallback_2: 2 Human 2 Fallback. Martin Amis, re-reassessed. Border stories by Nicholas Hamburger and Paul Soto.

Who Sees Gaza?

A genocide in images



OCTOBER 7 MARKED the beginning of a new economy of war imagery. At first there was a video of a bulldozer plowing through the border fence between Israel and Gaza—an astonishing image, captured in a familiar way. Then things turned horribly surreal. The events of that day were beamed to the world in real time via body-cam, dashcam, cell phone, drone. A Hamas fighter wearing a GoPro stalked the highway with his automatic rifle jutting up from the bottom of the frame, first-person-shooter style. A dashboard camera showed a car zooming forward as a bullet pierced its windshield and the car began to drift, veering left, until it crashed into the rear end of a parked Toyota; you knew exactly when the person behind the wheel could no longer drive, was probably dead. 

Arts & Literature, Essays, Journalism, Magazines, Previews

Literary Previews: n+1 Magazine – Winter 2023

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@nplusonemag Winter 2023 issue features new writing by: + Laura Preston + Victoria Lomasko + @CharoShane + Laura Kolbe + Blair McClendon (@__seab) + @nicoleklipman + Su Wu + hannah baer + @haleymlotek + Thomas Bolt + Stephen Squibb + @JudithLevine +@gabrielwinant.

Arts & Literature, Books, Literature, Music, Podcasts

Views: Influences Of Pop Music On Literature

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An important moment in the relationship between pop music and writing occurred in 2017 when the Nobel prize in literature was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. The previous year, it had gone to Bob Dylan. 

In Long Players, a collection of short pieces by poets, novelists and journalists about the albums that have most affected them, a recurrent suggestion is that you can learn more about writing from songs than you can from books, especially when you’re young. “In my view, David Bowie was a great writer”, says Deborah Levy about The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972).