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Mal wieder so ein #longread, den es nur im #NewYorker gibt (€): Is Cuba Next? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/30/is-cuba-next

Is Cuba Next?

Trump’s campaign to topple foreign adversaries encounters a battered but defiant regime. Jon Lee Anderson reports from Havana on the waning Castro regime, Putin’s uncertain support for Cuba, and Marco Rubio’s efforts to remake the government.

The New Yorker

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“I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

https://forward.com/culture/books/813970/returning-a-search-for-home-across-three-centuries-nicholas-lemann-new-orleans-jewish-history/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub