Laura McLean-Ferris

Billionaires are consolidating around Cuomo because they know he will preserve the broken status quo.

New Yorkers are rallying behind our campaign because they're ready for change.

In two weeks, we will shock the political establishment and win a city we can all afford.

The Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive Politics During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?

Such important attentiveness to language in this essay, which includes both “pretty ideas” and a commitment to generous disagreement. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...

A robot designer creates her own perfect lover: “Imagine having sex with a man of your own design! A brilliant, horrible proposition, and one full of uncanny details that lead [to] a state of repulsion toward [the] human body: “their saliva mixed—his, fresh apple mint; hers, absolutely disgusting.”

Luminous

Speculations on our new AI friends: I’m in 4Columns this week reviewing ‘Luminous’ by Silvia Park, a cyberpunk-noir novel which reenvisions love and relationships in a futuristic unified Korea. 4columns.org/mclean-ferri...

Solidarity Event with Palestinian Booksellers Na'amod presents: Solidarity with Palestinian Booksellers! Join us in London on Sunday 2 March for an afternoon of readings in solidarity with the Educational Bookshop in occupied East Jerusalem. ...

If in London - a solidarity event March 2 actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

Why Israel’s Raid on a Palestinian Bookshop Matters The real threat posed by detained booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna is their willingness to engage with Jewish-Israelis amid a state narrative that presents all Palestinians as terrorists

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Nice to see that they set the dance scene in Wicked at La Caverna

A photograph of Lorraine O’Grady at age 86, wearing a leather jacket and leather pants and looking badass.

Lorraine O’Grady in the 1980s during her public performance of “Art Is…” during the African American Parade in Harlem.

Lorraine O’Grady, 1934-2024. A formidable and brilliant artist. Editing her collected essays and co-curating her first full retrospective when she was 86 yrs old was the honor of a lifetime. We’re only now starting to understand the depths of her work and genius.

We Deserve More Than Novelty from the Publishing Industry The year in books: Beyond the marketing trends, 2024 offered a refreshing reminder that the life of many texts is cyclical

The year in books: Beyond the marketing trends, 2024 offered a refreshing reminder that the life of many texts is cyclical, writes Helen Charman artreview.com/we-deserve-m...

"For Aicha seems to overlay and coexist with reality, much as online lives and identities do, but it is made with a depth of feeling that seems itself to be an animating force. What is it about Bennani and Barki’s work with their collaborators that manages this?"

Meriem Bennani, “For My Best Family” at Fondazione Prada, Milan — Mousse Magazine and Publishing I was not alone in having a surprising and immediate reaction to the first tiny episode of Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s 2 Lizards series when I saw it on

Haven't seen such a good show of this scale in a very long time !
Here's a review of Meriem Bennani, 'My Best Family' at Fondazione Prada, Milan www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/mer...

Though the occasions to do so are very rare I do enjoy writing a rave every now and again because I love to write drama

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Are any of the presentations in English?

The Lovely and Loveable World ...which quietly persists

Mary Gaitskill: when thoughts behave like "discordant bits of mental detritus borne along by boiling feelings like lawn furniture in lava" marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-lovely...

Faber signs journalist Basciano’s 'captivating' book on the history of leprosy Faber has signed journalist Oliver Basciano’s "captivating" first book, Outcast: A History of Us Through Leprosy.

Overjoyed with the opportunity to tell the 4000 year history of leprosy, and report the stories of those affected past and present. Out June 2025 with @faberbooks.bsky.social
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Why Do We Talk This Way? Technology is dramatically changing political speech, rewarding quantity and variety over the neat messages of the past.

I thought this was really interesting and at certain moments parallels some of the tensions in Dean's Harper's essay and its reception: www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’ The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’

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Have been writing about Meriem Bennani’s show at Fondazione Prada in Milan this week, and revisiting ’Two Lizards’ made with Orian Barki. Found this perfect image of summer 2020 in New York:

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