Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’Um, made poetry out of a representation of Asian American life that skewers the exoticizing currents in American culture while, at the same time, ironizing and breathing life into the twisting singularities of dialect like few other living poets. “Translating,” in this sense, is what Hong’s work has always made its central labor, but not without a recognition that for a voice deemed “other,” that labor is just as likely to feel bitter, coerced, an act of precarious Scheherazade-like survivalism. Dance Dance Revolution, published in 2007 and chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women’s Prize, realizes Hong’s breathtaking powers on an ambitious scale: it proposes a “Desert” in which exiles, some of whom are survivors of the Kwangju massacre, a violence carried out by the murderous authorities of a US-backed Korean government in 1980—“comparable to Tiananmen Square, brutally repressed with the support of the US,” writes Rich in the citation.
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Unwilling to govern “Kevin McCarthy just found out in the hardest way possible that Nancy Pelosi only made it look easy,” Charlotte Clymer posted at Bluesky. “Backwards, and in high heels,” replied Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel). If House Republicans ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday was too abstruse a sign that they cannot govern like adults, bowtied Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, now speaker pro tempore, made sure cameras picked it up as he recessed the House until Tuesday. The gavel didn’t do anything. Jeez. pic.twitter.com/I0TWxHK3Qf — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 3, 2023 The Republican House caucus is at war with itself. Eight Republicans led by Matt Gaetz of Florida voted to oust McCarthy on Wednesday. All eight are “traitors,” former Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News. “All eight of them should in fact be primaried.” Ninety-six percent of Republicans voted to keep McCarthy, he insisted. McCarthy, “who practiced a management style of doing and saying pretty much whatever it would take to get through the day,” did not make it through yesterday.
The two former chancellors reveal how 'the grown-ups in the room' collude in their outlook
Once the richest city in the UK thanks to its booming garment industry, many of Leicester’s factories now lay empty. Following the departure of big fashion brands in recent years, garment workers have been laid off or had their hours cut by up to 70 percent, and are left facing hunger and homelessness. Against a […]
Up at The New Yorker this morning, I’ve got a double review of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s new book, Tyranny of the Minority, and Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath’s The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, which came out last year. My essay addresses the Constitution and the rise of the right, and asks whether any part of the Constitution might help us counter the right. I come out, surprisingly, thinking that, maybe, yes, it might. That’s what I learned from Fishkin and Forbath’s “wonderfully counterintuitive” book, as I say. The other surprise, for me, is the shift in Levitsky and Ziblatt’s position. Five years ago, you may recall, they were the leading scholarly voices arguing against the norm erosion of Donald Trump […]
Katz’s Deli has been serving New Yorkers our delicious food for over a hundred years. As the general manager for the last twenty of those years, I’ve seen my fair share of odd customers. And it goes without saying that we welcome people of every race, creed, and sexual orientation to come sit and dine with us at any time.
Even so, we still have to put our foot down every now and then when a customer gets a little too out of hand. So listen, lady, no matter how good the food is, you cannot have an orgasm in this restaurant.
Katz’s is a New York institution. It might even be the most famous deli on Earth. People come from every corner of the globe to try our pastrami, corned beef, and brisket sandwiches. The line often wraps around the building and down Houston Street. So, yeah, we’re pretty confident our sandwiches are good.
But our sandwiches can’t be that good, okay? At least not good enough to have a full-on orgasm. Or was it a fake orgasm? It had to be real, right?
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As Foreign Secretary, Truss warned that the Government risked failing in its duty of care for the group which included at least 20 children
The former Ohio state senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate said she was inspired by the nearly two-yearlong Alabama coal miners strike.
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Hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello chat about the HBO documentary series Telemarketers and other media-related topics.
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Control over Nagorno-Karabakh sits at the center of a shifting geopolitical landscape and an emerging Cold War 2.0.
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Private health insurers are systematically taking advantage of Medicare while denying care to seniors, a new report shows.
The Federal Reserve is making real-time payments available to banks and credit unions of any size with FedNow, a new instant payments service.
Julia Giese, Michael McLeay, David Aikman and Sujit Kapadia Central banks have been using a range of monetary policy and macroprudential tools to maintain monetary and financial stability. But when should monetary versus macroprudential tools be used and how should they be combined? Our recent paper develops a macroeconomic model to answer these questions. We … Continue reading Unifying monetary and macroprudential policy
Rishi Sunak's reckless attempts to mimic the political tactics of the radical Republican right led to some ugly scenes at his party's conference in Manchester, reports Adam Bienkov
It’s Wednesday and I have a few observations on a few things today. I have written before about how the rising interest rates in many nations, far from being deflationary, have demonstrably increased inflationary pressures. The two pathways that this impact occurs are: one, the boost to wealth among creditors coupled with significant proportions of…
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the story of what it has taken away. It markets the “traditional” and “unchanging” and, in doing so, changes it. As the old joke […]
How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th September 2023 In 2010, when a high-speed rail line from London to the north – HS2 – was proposed by the outgoing Labour government, I wrote an article arguing that […]
Two months before the layoffs, EMILY’s List announced a 2024 plan to spend tens of millions of dollars to back Harris, a Butler ally.
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Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo star in the new Apple TV+ crime drama Criminal Record from writer Paul Rutman, premiering in January 2024.