#new york review books

[garadinervi]

Robert Walser, Autumn Afternoon (1914), in Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories, Translated from the German by Tom Whalen with Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner, Afterword by Tom Whalen, New York Review Books, New York, NY, 2016, pp. 25-26

#graphic design #book #robert walser #tom whalen #nicole köngeter #annette wiesner #new york review books #1910s #2010s

[theblackestofsuns]

The World Of Odysseus (1954)

M.I. Finley

New York Review Books

#The World Of Odysseus #M.I. Finley #New York Review Books #Started This Today

[emrystheedgedancer]

Brandon Sanderson has finally become so popular that it’s cool for edgelords to hate him

#the amount of people I’ve seen saying that his books are awful recently #it’s fine to not like Brandedson! #don’t get me wrong #but a good portion of the criticism I see are giving the same vibe as the people who hated Harry Potter just because it was popular #people who think they’re reviewing him for the New York Times instead of leaving an Instagram comment lol #brandon sanderson #cosmere

[vyorei]

Holocaust and antisemitism experts have penned an open letter to The New York Review of Books urging an end to the 'misuse of Holocaust memory', pointing to comments made by Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Netanyahu

"Israeli leaders and others are using the Holocaust framing to portray Israel's collective punishment of Gaza as a battle for civilization in the face of barbarism, thereby promoting racist narratives about Palestinians"

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #The New York Review of Books #Holocaust #Antisemitism #benjamin netanyahu #Joe Biden #Canada #USA #UK #Germany

[antoinemaillard]

Cover llustrations for the New york Times Book review about the Stephen King review of "All the Sinners Bleeds" by S. A Cosby. Thank you so much AD James Blue and Alvaro Dominguez

#editorial illustration #new york times #book review #stephen king #s a cosby #pencil drawing #digital color #thriller #west virginia #small town

[mariainesgul]

Spot for The New York Times magazine, Oct 22 2023

#maria ines gul #editorial #illustration #nyt #the new york times #book #review #sunday

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The Tamakis' "Roaming"

Tomorrow (September 12) at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. On September 14, I'm hosting the EFF Awards in San Francisco.

Cousins Mariko Tamaki and #JillianTamaki are a graphic storytelling powerhouse, and their latest title, Roaming (from Drawn and Quarterly) is a stunner:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/roaming/

Roaming is the story of three young Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to New York City. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven't seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani's art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication.

The three young women check into a youth hostel for a hotly anticipated long weekend, which turns into a complicated and moody marathon of debauchery, bonding, feuding, flirting, resentments and wonders.

The Tamakis' specialty is capturing the charged sexuality, subtle friendship power-moves, and intense but brittle friendship between young women. They're very good at it, which is why they won a Governor General's prize for their 2014 blockbuster This One Summer:

https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/06/review-this-one-summer/

With Roaming we get a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog.

Meanwhile, NYC looms large as it only could in a story about young Canadians in the City. It's hard to overstate the glamour with which New York looms in the imagination of (many) young Canadians. Hence the old joke: "How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: one to change the bulb and one to go to New York and make sure lightbulbs are still cool." Or: "Toronto is New York run by the Swiss; the city that never sleeps…in."

I was one of those Canadian adolescents drunk on New York, on several occasions, and even today the City can just floor me. The Tamakis nailed this, from the facial expressions to the body-language of their characters, the push-pull of wanting to go to all the tourist traps and not wanting to be the kind of rube who goes to all the tourist traps.

All my female friends have stories of growing up in intense, three-way friendships that were forever turning into two-on-one fights, with allegiances shifting from moment to moment. Roaming tells the story of one such triangle, forming and shattering and re-forming in a sorefooted, exhilarating weekend in the greatest city in the world (TM). It's a love story about friendship and the transition from adolescence to adulthood, perfectly precise in its depiction of very specific people in a very specific time and place, and yet absolutely universal in the truths it reveals.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/11/as-canadian-as/#possible-under-the-circumstances

#pluralistic #comics #graphic novels #coming of age #canada #new york city #nyc #gift guide #reviews #books #tamakis

[itsallmadonnasfault]

The Muchness Of Madonna: The New York Times Book Review, November 5, 2023

#Madonna #2023 #A Rebel Life #New York Times #book review #Blond Ambition #Gaultier #Mary Gabriel #Madonna 2023 #Queen Of Pop

[in-the-stacks]

Presenting Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones. Reviewed by Read Local for In the Stacks.

https://www.inthestacks.tv/2024/03/read-local-leslie-fcking-jones

#in the stacks #books #reading #librarian book reviews #michelle zaffino #video book reviews #guest librarian #writing #mylibrarian #librarians #african american actresses #african american women #memoir #california #new york #humor #comedians #leslie jones

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Hannah Arendt #The New York Review of Books #Arendt #violence #resistance #protest #change

[garadinervi]

An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory, by Omer Bartov, Christopher R. Browning, Jane Caplan, Debórah Dwork, Michael Rothberg, et al., «The New York Review», November 20, 2023

«Appealing to the memory of the Holocaust obscures our understanding of the antisemitism Jews face today and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel-Palestine.»

(Image: Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, August 28, 2015. Fotogoocom/Wikimedia Commons)

(Via: Laia Balcells)

#history #historiography #education #magazine #omer bartov #christopher r. browning #jane caplan #debórah dwork #michael rothberg #the new york review of books #2020s

[theblackestofsuns]

The Letters of William Gaddis (2023)

New York Review Books

#The Letters of William Gaddis #New York Review Books #Started This Today

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#return to romance: the strange love stories of ogden whitney #return to romance #the new york review of books #romance #romance comic #romance comics #poll

[philosophybits]

This is the real problem of every philosophy of history: how is it possible that in retrospect it always looks as though it couldn’t have happened otherwise?

Hannah Arendt, "Interview with Roger Errera", The New York Review of Books (26 October 1978)

#philosophy #quotes #Hannah Arendt #The New York Review of Books #history #necessity #contingency

[qeyond]

Did I ever tell y'all that when I was a teen I was trying to write a fan fic about B before he did the LABB murders and I worked so hard on it and I put so much love and heart into it and it was very over dramatic and emo because it was like also a diary. But the thing I did was I made it B writing about himself (he wrote the fanfic) and then I also titled the fan fic "Just Being B". Like why does it sound like a sitcom, on paper reads like a sitcom, but is actually a hard, emotional retell of B's harrowing past and pains and horrors and all these fucked up reasons why he wanted to do the LABB crimes?

Anyway, Beyond Birthday possessed me to write his clown ass autobiography when I was 13 and he really loved doing it.

#qeyond sucks #absolutely crying thinking about this rn #because also i wasnt even going for a theme i was just slapping shit together and hoping it #would stick and its so so funny to me #accidentally making the most B-core autobiography for B written by B. #he would put a very classy black and white photo on the back panel of the book #and actually incude an authors note. #'new york times calls it Disturbing' #'''its like hes monologuing directly to me. i felt pulled in' says ThatOneMomOf24 of Instagram''' #etc etc theres reviews on the back cover of the book instead of like a legit description #theres no description of what this book is at all anywhere you have to just trust you know what new york times #meant by that :) #Beyond Birthday #death note

[uglygirlstatus]

Omg you didnt like one last stop? Two of my friends LOVE it and i cannot be moved to read it <3 im curious why you didnt like it so i can chose to continue to not read it but with a reason

reading the line “that twink contains multitudes” in a published novel made my brain shrivel up

#but generally I just think it was boring….. prose was mediocre and characters were all so NOTHING #like everyone was a very 2D caricature and all spoke the same (also a fault of rwrb imo) #time travel stuff was poorly executed and arbitrary #mcquiston has a writing habit where they just like. list things. and it drives me nuts at times #all that said I did still cry one time during the book. whatever. #there is one really scathing goodreads review of the book regarding its misuse of New York as a setting #has spoilers but I love it. if u want it I’ll find it just msg me #ask