Nicholson Baker

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Exposing a global economy of genocide | Francesca Albanese | The Big Picture

"--today we see that there are many western states and also some Arab states who are actively sustaining what Israel is doing. If Palestine was a crime scene today, it would show the fingerprints of all of us." Middle East Eye on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXIT...

Pencil drawing of Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, speaking into a microphone in a YouTube interview

Francesca Albanese, pencil drawing: "Many Israelis I've engaged with keep on asking why--why there are no sanctions. Because of political alliances--but also because I do think many people have not understood how deeply entrenched we all are with Israeli crimes. And not only Israeli crimes-

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

“Israeli soldiers serving in Gaza told Haaretz that commanders have ordered troops to shoot at unarmed crowds near humanitarian aid distribution sites to drive them away or disperse them, even when it was clear they posed no threat.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"and they make us sound as if we know what we’re doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we’re all just struggling in the dark, really."

"Nicholson Baker Navigates the Buffet," by Jared Levy, September 16, 2013.

Nicholson Baker Navigates the Buffet - Interview Magazine Blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction is familiar territory for Nicholson Baker.

I talked to Jared Levy for Interview Magazine in 2013: "There’s something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don’t want to think of myself as a guy who’s written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations--" www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/nich...

Harvard Bookstore Union scores contract, new poetry from Askold Melnyczuk, a new indie in Maine New England Literary News

"Askold Melnyczuk tongues the tooth of that which can’t be said" ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/harvard-bo...

Thanks for reading - whatever it was!

drawing of antiwar activist Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin, antiwar activist, voice of reason, co-founder of Code Pink. #portraitart #art

Medea Benjamin: "This is not about nuclear weapons. It’s about regime change. U.S. efforts to overthrow governments—from Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya—have brought nothing but devastation. Regime change fantasies ignore the sovereignty of nations and substitute military might for political solutions. Iran is a complex, populous country with a proud history of resisting foreign domination. Trying to overthrow its government would almost certainly plunge the region into deeper turmoil, with massive civilian suffering and global consequences."

Medea Benjamin on Substack medeabenjamin.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

What charming drawings, bringing Redditors to life. And if this catches your attention, please read one of Mr. Baker’s books. He’s an absolutely brilliant writer.

Gosh thank you very much mercurywoodrose! Lucky to have you as a reader!

"--to flatten, uproot, kill, starve, seize control and even establish Jewish settlements there. And thus, long before March 18, the entire Gaza Strip – cities and towns, residential neighborhoods, refugee camps, tilled fields, orchards – had become a wasteland over which death hovered constantly."

'Netanyahu isn't Israel,' claim Israeli intellectuals. They're lying to themselves | Opinion ***

"This war had goals other than military victory," writes Israeli scholar Ilana Hammerman in Haaretz. "Increasingly, it was waged in the spirit of the calls from senior politicians, ministers and Knesset members, as well as generals, to destroy Gaza – www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025... (paywall)

"Live. Laugh. Lock Him Up!!" East Haddam, Connecticut, #NoKings yesterday

pencil drawing of a braided woman with her hand draped across her face

Drawing of a woman on Reddit. #redditgetsdrawn #portraitart #art

Thank you for reading The F! Collier was just a name that sounded right. I haven’t seen the movie or read the book but I will. Best regards Nick B

A close up of Jupiter and its swirling storms and atmosphere in many colors - white, blue, orange, brown.

the details and beauty of jupiter ☁️

man in a knit hat, ballpoint pen

#redditgetsdrawn #art

Keiran Brennan Hinton, Office (oil on linen) (2022)

happy couple on Reddit.
#redditgetsdrawn #art

woman with cat on #redditgetsdrawn.
#art

From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL that the United States bombed Laos with the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. That adds up to 270 million... Explore this post and more from the todayilearned community

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Laos: destroying explosives, creating jobs | The HALO Trust The HALO Trust’s work in Laos involves clearing unexploded ordnance, helping communities return to their homes, and enabling safer farming. Learn more.

“From 1964-1973, more than two million tons of ordnance were dropped on Laos. The intensity and scale of this bombing was equal to one planeload of bombs every eight minutes,  24 hours a day, for nine years.” www.halotrust.org/where-we-wor...

Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died

#gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

US Has Delivered 90,000 Tons of Weapons to Israel in Nearly 600 Days - News From Antiwar.com The US has delivered 90,000 tons of bombs, guns, and other military equipment to Israel since October 7, 2023, to support the genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to numbers...

“The US has delivered 90,000 tons of bombs, guns, and other military equipment to Israel since October 7, 2023, to support the genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to numbers from the Israeli Defense Ministry.” news.antiwar.com/2025/05/27/u...

Honored to have a place on your shelf—thank you, Christian!

A big thank you to you and Katherine Denison!

Thank you Ted—I’m really glad the book caught you!

“Seek Peace and Pursue It”:  A Pacifist’s Reflections on the Attack in Israel and the War in Gaza by Larry Rosenwald

www.thehav.org/blog/seek-pe...