Jan Breslau

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I'm Going to Kill You - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English Domestic violence often goes hand in hand with psychological and emotional abuse. Filmmaker Karine Dusfour was given rare permission to film domestic violence trials in French courts and sheds light o...

www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... A pressing issue - domestic violence

Inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine the booming market a troubling new market.

A new documentary goes inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic... in the absence of meaningful gun reform.

I spoke with the filmmakers for @motherjones.com:

On the limits of what should and could be said in public regardless of the unlimited freedom of speech, based on the example of Oriana Fallaci:https://www.commentary.org/articles/christopher-caldwell/the-fallaci-affair/

Orwell's Whale and McEwan's Frogs ianmcewan.com/resources/do...

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell www.commentary.org/articles/chr...
On the lurid imagination...

The Silver Book by Olivia Laing review – a thin line of beauty The world of 1970s Italian cinema is the glossy backdrop for an elegantly wrought but shallow novel

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On The Rocky Road To Nowhere

The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.

No, HHS, menopause does not in fact cause divorce and death, but tell us more about how great you are at women's health. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and I wrote about how they somehow managed to mess up what should have been good news on HRT with weird claims. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today is the day!

Every One Still Here is now available to purchase in all good bookshops and on our website.
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An Interview with Liadan Ní Chuinn — TOLKA by Catherine Hearn

“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.”

New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Africa 6

Africa 6 https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-motherwell/africa-6-1970

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

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Talking to Ukrainians under the rain of Russian bombs Far away from the futile Trump-Putin noise (will he? won’t he? why didn't he?), Ukrainians are being targeted and killed every day. I talked to friends and acquaintances in Kherson, a frontline city.

“The Russian can see us just from the other side of the river, and a minute later they hit you - and they are specifically targeting residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals.”

read this horrific report from Kherson:

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Master of the apocalypse László Krasznahorkai is only the second Hungarian to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature. He follows Imre Kertész (1929–2016), whose best-known book outside Hungary is Fatelessness – an account b...

"The legacies of Dostoevsky, Gogol and Kafka, along with Robert Walser and Thomas Bernhard, stalk the historical and psychological territory from which Krasznahorkai has emerged with his own original, gigantic, idiosyncratic constructions. "
George Szirtes
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Wisconsin Planned Parenthood to stop abortions even though they’re legal The move is an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid "defunding" under the GOP's budget bill—potentially saving healthcare for 50,000 people.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Scoop: Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within” One new leader called herself “pro-life” and another asked about partnering with anti-abortion groups.

NEW: With the great Nina Martin, I wrote about bombshell allegations about a Planned Parenthood chapter in the South that has been taken over by new leaders with conservative connections. One new leader has even described herself as "pro-life." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What soul...

After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

No Kings NYC - March with the WGAE! Join the Writers Guild of America East and our union allies as we fight to protect free speech, workers' rights and the labor movement.

Join us in NYC (Bryant Park) TOMORROW at 10am as we stand up to the Trump administration's authoritarian threats. Join what’s set to be one of the largest protests in the country to defend the First Amendment, workers rights, public services and immigrant families.

RSVP: wgaea.st/no-kings-1018

Untitled https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/97070

"...every success is marked by the quiet ambush of failures..."

With Truce in Place, Hamas Pursues Bloody Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel.

A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory, no matter how weakened it is after two years of war with Israel.

"Spicy sex with dragons..."

And... Down with Orbán!

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.