Gaza: profilo storico di un genocidio perpetrato con il consenso dell’Occidente

di Paolo Lago Gilbert Achcar, Gaza, genocidio annunciato. La catastrofe palestinese in una prospettiva storica [...]

Carmilla on line

The King’s Speech: A Royal Masterclass in Diplomatic Evisceration

On 28 April 2026, King Charles III stood before a joint session of Congress and delivered twenty minutes of perfectly calibrated diplomatic napalm. He spoke of Magna Carta, judicial independence, NATO and the rule of law. Donald Trump stood there smiling and felt the warmth of the room. He missed everything else.

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/04/30/the-kings-speech-a-royal-masterclass-in-diplomatic-evisceration/

The Lovely War

Donald Trump threatens Iran the way he once threatened a recalcitrant steak: same wounded, flinty, infant-king fury. A working homage to Martin Amis -- on the Epstein flights, the six-billion-dollar goon squad, the taunting of a proud civilisation, and a nine-year-old girl in Minab waiting for the water that is her birthright. The infant-king has other plans.

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/04/20/the-lovely-war/

'Chilling' WW2 film is a 'brutal masterpiece' now streaming free on Channel 4

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/tv-film-news/chilling-ww2-film-brutal-masterpiece-36742199

2025 book sixty-six: Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️#fiction #bookstodon #audiobook #bookstagram #martinamis

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True enough. It eventually becomes clear that Mister Amis most ardently admired and loved Miss Austen. But perhaps he hated himself a bit for it.

And his description in those last three lines of the drooping arc of her personal hopes and life are so brutal you want to look away.

#Books #JaneAusten #MartinAmis

Jesus, Martin Amis was a brutal bastard.

"No reader can resist the brazen wishfulness of 'Pride and Prejudice,' but it is clear from internal evidence alone that Austen never fully forgave herself for it. 'Mansfield Park' was her—and our—penance. As her own prospects weakened, dreams of romance paled into the modest hope for respectability. 'Persuasion' was her poem to the second chance. And then came death."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/01/08/jane-austen-martin-amis?_sp=80fd9854-72db-4e47-8e7c-550ed97453cc.1721564968997

#Books #JaneAusten #MartinAmis

Jane Austen’s World

Martin Amis on how the English novelist Jane Austen has remained a phenomenon for more than two centuries.

The New Yorker
–O et tornes boig els deu primers minuts –es diu sovint–, o t’hi acostumes. –Es podria argumentar que qui s’hi ha acostumat s’ha tornat definitivament boig. #MartinAmis