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Executive editor @ Liberties Journal wrote a biography of Chaim Soutine

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Poetry and Hematology: A Conversation with Martรญn Espada Michel Foucault wrote that an essential element of authoritarian racism is โ€œthe administrative prose of a State that defends itself in the name of a social heritage that has to be kept pure.โ€ If admin...

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Human Till Death: Testimony After Genocide In April 2024, a friend passed me a package. He had received it from someone who attended a debate I had with an Israeli academic in Taiwan, and that person gave him the booklet. I was living in Taiwa...

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NYFF: Festival of Darkness What a strange and uncomfortable coincidence that the New York Film Festival has programmed one of its best line-ups during one of the worst years in modern American history. Filing out of any given s...

The good people at @readliberties.bsky.social let me write up the highlights and misfires of this year's NYFF: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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What Kind Of Monster: All Fours, Alas In the summer of 2024, I left my marriage and, with it, my house, my hometown, and my job. A year later, I had a new partner, a new apartment, and a new job. A seamless transitionโ€”except for the guilt...

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street - Live in Copenhagen
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Anyway you can always be listening to this
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The Israeli government prefers a weakened Hamas in a besieged Gaza, to any alternative administration (including a neo-colonial one run by Blair).
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.

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Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry Lovers of noir are generally aware that the term was initially applied to the works of a set of US authors and filmmakers in retrospect, from afar, when the French were first granted access to films t...

Donโ€™t read this for my sakeโ€”my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. Theyโ€™ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, โ€œSewn Close to Pascalโ€™s Heart.โ€

A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
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Honored to be published alongside writers Iโ€™ve long admired.

#writing #philosophy #spirituality

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Shangri-La: October Seventh, 2023 I was in Shangri-La, in a village in the Tibetan Himalayas on October 7th, 2023. More precisely, I was in the Shangri-La tourism zone of Yunnan, a popular Chinese travel destination marketed as the โ€œt...

My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties. โ€จI wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope? โ€จ
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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The High Art of Distance - Liberties โ€œArt, of course, lives in history,โ€ said Elizabeth Hardwick. By which she meant that a novel emerges in its own time, and changes in its passage to our own. This โ€” the likeness which is also an unlike...

Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

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Chaim Soutine A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art wor...

use code SOUTINE20 at checkout :) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/celes...

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BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Other Obliteration: โ€จA Report from the West Bank - Liberties In August of last year a video was posted on X by the Israeli human rights organization Bโ€™Tselem in which four masked settlers, three of them wielding clubs, can be seen walking onto a Palestinian man...

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from @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's Master of Contradictions

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Trump's Gaza Plan, Palestinian Authority's immiseration, and Political Realism (Recorded 9/5/25) Podcast Episode ยท Not A Dialogue ยท 09/05/2025 ยท 31m

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Listen to Not A Dialogue wherever you get your podcasts

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Join Morten Hรธi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"

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Gov't says it will cut Film Academy funding after film 'depicting Israel negatively' wins Claiming That the Film 'Defames' Israeli Soldiers, Israel's Culture Minister Announced the Withdrawal of Government Funding for the Ophir Awards After the 'Embarrassing Ceremony'. The Film, The Sea, T...

Imagine viewing a childโ€™s dreams as a threat.

The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israelโ€™s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy.

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We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...

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The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...

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