Introducing our CRB x Verso Books reading list, a curated selection of Verso titles handpicked by our editors and available to CRB subscribers at a special 50% discount
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for The Nation, I wrote about Emory, Cop City, and the police violence and brutality aimed at righteous protest. long story short: when you put all your resources into militarizing policing, militarized police become the answer to everything. thenation.com/article/archiv…

I fear we’re about to have a Kent State situation at Columbia

Google fired more than 50 workers for protesting its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government. It also fired a worker who told me he wasn't involved with the demonstration at all:
theverge.com/2024/4/30/2414…

Today, my essay collection, eight years in the making, MEAN BOYS: A PERSONAL HISTORY from Bloomsbury U.S. hits a bookstore near you! 🎉

I keep meaning and meaning and meaning to do this and maybe one day I’ll get around to it…But meanwhile you can read 2 poems about my intelligence and benevolence on Cleveland Review of Books today 🤲 all thanks to Zach Peckham & Alyssa Perry 🫶

'There are competing definitions of empathy out there, but the way I think of it is a subject and object that appear to be fused.' In an interview with Whitney Mallett, Geoffrey Mak talks personal essays, identification, and his book, 'Mean Boys.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-boo…

Ben Lerner, if you go on strike, I’ll take back everything I said about cis male auto-fiction.

the latest iteration of 'gaby goes to a right-wing conference' just dropped
politico.com/news/magazine/…

AI cannot hurt you

'A certain kind of glamor resides not just in possessing a void like the great emptiness—which lends the person who holds it an air of mystery—but in one’s reaching for remedies to fill that void.'

Melissa Rodman on Leslie Jamison's 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴
clereviewofbooks.com/writing/leslie…

Going to the movies…not to see Challengers

I’m so excited for you guys to see and read this 🥹

Open Call for Submissions — Voices of the Campus Protest Movement:

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my report from Columbia, where pro-Palestine students have been getting doxxed, harassed, intimidated, and even attacked for months:
theverge.com/24141073/colum…

Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.
bit.ly/3wcql7c

As NYU Journalism faculty-I'm noting that:

Here is a student journalist who appears to have been pepper sprayed by the NYPD

and is NOT being cared for or protected by:

1. The NYPD
2. NYU administrators b/c they invited NYPD
3. Campus 'safety' b/c they worked w/NYPD

they got the fashion girlies? it's literally joever wow

To be a student of philosophy at a university where the department chair is arrested for her commitment to praxis and ethics. Shame on Emory University for its cowardice. You don’t deserve these incredible professors. Noelle McAfee’s lived commitment to education is ❤️.

This is the kind of thing building an enormous militarized police training center in the Atlanta forest that nobody in the general population wants will get you
#stopcopcity