"Watching the workers explore the mystery beneath a grille brought to my mind the iconic painting on the first-edition dust jacket of King’s 1986 novel IT. What was down there?" —Andy Hageman for Los Angeles Review of books

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/stephen-king-dark-half-revisited-archives-richard-bachman/

#StephenKing #LARB #Writing

#LARB Radio Hour welcomes #JuliaLoktev to talk about her new #documentary #MyUndesirableFriends

'Filmed in 2021, just before #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, the five-hour epic follows independent journalists at #TVRain as they navigate escalating government repression and the “foreign agent” laws designed to silence dissent.'

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/julia-loktev-my-undesirable-friends/
#media #RussianMedia #censorship #stateRepression #pressFreedom #cinema #film #cinéastes

#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show

"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.

"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"

#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/the-shit-show/

#tech #technology #techFutures @bookstodon

#LARB Radio Hour talks with #PankajMishra about his new book, "#TheWorldAfterGaza: A History”

"[H]ow the legacy of the Holocaust has shaped the contemporary world order, including how it has shaped the government of #Israel, and the current war in #Gaza. The book grapples with how, within the relentless violence of the 20th century, #trauma can lead to #nationalism, and also how one #genocide can lead to another."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/pankaj-mishras-the-world-after-gaza-a-history/

#Palestine #books @bookstodon @israel @palestine

Jess Maginity reviews Jordan S. Carroll’s “Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right.” :

"Carroll identifies the hollow core of their claims: while these radical right figures claim that science fiction allows white men to reclaim their racial identity as intrepid innovators and explorers solely responsible for shaping the future, these right-wing thinkers are in fact incapable of imagining a future meaningfully distinct from the self-aggrandizement of their present identity."

#sciencefiction #altright #farright #larb #books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/whose-future-is-it-anyway/

Thanks to @dys_morphia I'm through the looking glass, down the rat-hole of my collection of #HannahArendt articles.😉

Here's one from seven years ago(2017) that is, in my opinion, kinda mealy-mouthed re:Trump; but, addresses some of the issues brought up in The Origins of #Totalitarianism and its current relevance.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/arendt-matters-revisiting-origins-totalitarianism/

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#antifa #AntiFascism #books #PoliticalScience #LARB #Politics

Great article about the new film from #yorgoslanthimos #kindsofkindness which I watched and did not know what to make of beyond a vague feeling of unease and horror. Love the #LARB.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-freak-flag-flown-at-half-mast-on-yorgos-lanthimoss-kinds-of-kindness

The Trouble with the French Republic: On Two Recent Books About French Colonization

Book review with commentary, for French who read English. And others who read English too, of course.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-trouble-with-the-french-republic-on-two-recent-books-about-french-colonization/

#France #colonialism #empire #books #larb

Some thoughts on the prevalence of trauma backstory and flashbacks in 21st century prestige TV, from Elizabeth Alsop in LARB.

#Television #TV #LARB

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-past-is-never-dead-on-tvs-backstory-problem