On the late night shift at the The University of Chicago encampment, on behalf of fjpuchicago

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Tonight 192books, I'm interviewing my extraordinary friend, Eliot Weinberger, on The Life of Tu Fu. 192books.com/3974-2/

This is a beautiful work, a transposition across time.

'In the abandoned villages, the new ghosts are in torment and the old ghosts weep for them.'

Ratik Asokan on the photographs of Josef Koudelka go.nybooks.com/3Tzesjg

STOP THE PRESSES | FREE PALESTINE

This morning, as autonomous actionists blockaded The New York Times’ distribution center and occupied its lobby, we launched our systemic critique of the so-called paper of record, built on months of intensive research: newyorkwarcrimes.com

While the The New York Times was having trouble with its morning deliveries, newsboys (of all genders) were distributing copies of the New York (War) Crimes, an alternative broadsheet by and for the movement. What the Times won’t print—the truths of Palestine—you’ll find here.

‼️NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS ‼️

Protesters blockaded the The New York Times printing plant today, disrupting the distribution of the physical paper. “We are trying to change the order of the day,” a protester told @HellgateNY. hellgatenyc.com/pro-palestine-…

'In communities that traditionally recognized no rulers or government...we still find complex concepts of celestial hierarchies, metahuman authorities, and bureaucracies of deities and spirits' thenation.com/article/cultur…

“There is,” Sahlins wrote, “a Zen road to affluence, departing from premises somewhat different from our own: that human material wants are finite and few.” The Nation thenation.com/article/cultur…

Tomorrow, March 9, Kaveh Akbar and Anahid Nersessian in conversation about Kaveh’s debut novel: Martyr! Generously hosted by Triple Canopy 264 Canal Street @ 6 pm xxxxx a teaser in Bidoun: bidoun.org/articles/kaveh…

“The New Science of the Enchanted Universe is riveting, and this is in part because Sahlins writes with an incantatory, late-style openness to the existence of metapersons.” Read Anna Della Subin’s review of the late Marshall Sahlin’s book in The Nation hubs.ly/Q02nLnTC0

Where do ideas of other worlds and otherwordly entities come from when they reflect no living conditions on the ground?
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What if we saw the ghosts, gods, and spirits that haunt our worlds as worthy of a science of their own? Anna Della Subin in a wonderful piece for Books and the Arts on Marshall Sahlins and his enchanted worlds thenation.com/article/cultur…

Watch Pankaj Mishra's talk in full on YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=_w3Pe0…

“Call me Ishmael.”

‘A mythic cluster such as that around Mary Magdalene is a living organism, but it obeys a form of narrative pareidolia, seeing connections between elements and discerning a pattern – often a plot – that isn’t there.’

Marina Warner on Mary Magdalene:

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

‘She wrote poems which attempted to accomplish in verse what her father was doing with axes and spears.’

@AnnaDella Subin disusses Sumerian priestess (and the world’s first known author) Enheduana, on the LRB podcast. Listen ad-free on our website:

lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…