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Sally StrangePublic Books has a wonderful newsletter. This edition is all about the 220th anniversary of Haiti's independence and Haiti's influence on world politics since then: https://www.publicbooks.org/?utm_source=PUBLIC BOOKS Newsletter&utm_campaign=9e68afec90-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d048c39403-9e68afec90-181069426&mc_cid=9e68afec90&mc_eid=f8928db7e7
Miriam RaschLiterary criticism in times of war #ernaux #publicbooks https://www.publicbooks.org/filling-in-time-reading-vasily-grossman-while-waiting-for-s/?mc_cid=e3f7a3a288&mc_eid=1fdd9d1b5b
Cory Doctorow*Left Behind* gets a fascinating review by #RubyRayDaily in *#PublicBooks*, where it is contrasted with *Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s* by @pastpunditry:
https://www.publicbooks.org/what-the-1990s-did-to-america/
Both books grapple with how the end of the #ColdWar and the #Reagan era transformed both US parties. In Hemmer's telling, Reagan wasn't the "dawn of the free-market conservative," but rather, the "late summer" of that brand of conservativism.
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Jaipreet Virdi"In narratives that weave together archive and experience, design and use, medicine and bodies, she brings to the fore the ways in which our language to describe abled-ness is inextricably connected with both the design and implementation of technologies aimed at providing cures, as well as our personal and social presumptions of its success or failure."
#New #Interview on #PublicBooks !
https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-jaipreet-virdi-on-disability-history-deaf-futures
