It’s an event: Randall Mann’s work is now gathered in Deal: New and Selected, a volume of poems as rich as they are chiseled. Mann is a love poet, or at least a poet of lust—though maybe that’s a description of all poets—but Mann is also a writer whose passion is almost always shot through with an overt and bittersweet cynicism. A singer of shining knives. Praise and complaint go together, after all—epideixis is sometimes called praise-and-blame rhetoric—and the visceral, cutting quality of Mann’s poems goes hand in hand not only with his love for terse, rhyme-taut lines but also with what we might call his subject: “action: / transaction.” His first book was called Complaint in the Garden and his third, Straight Razor. On the other hand, the lover-as-poet is visible in the book some may know him best for, his second collection, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, or a more recent gathering, such as 2021’s A Better Life, whose cover is a ravishing matrix of thumbnails, glam shots of naked men’s faces in various expressions of come-hither.
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Discover the untold truth behind US military presence in Somalia, its impact on the region, and the strategic interests at play in Mnar Adley and Alan Macleod's eye-opening interview with journalist Ann Garrison.
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a South Asian American in today’s political climate? Are you looking for a cultural experience that goes beyond following Padma Lakshmi on Instagram and watching Hasan Minhaj’s latest special? This AAPI Heritage Month, “South Asian Americana: The Immersive VR Experience” is coming to a museum near you. Brought to you by the team behind “Immersive Van Gogh,” this virtual reality exhibit gives visitors a chance to experience everyday racism from the perspective of South Asian Americans.
Agonized at the Academy Awards
You’re being recognized as the first South Asian woman to win Best Actress at the Academy Awards for your performance in Brown Girl, White Man. But as the white male presenter finishes reading your first name, you can tell you’re about to be upstaged by a colonizer’s take on your family name. You watch as he contorts his mouth to emit an ethnic-sounding syllable, takes a pause, then bulldozes through another creative choice. It occurs to you that, just like your character, you are simply a brown girl defined by your relationship to a white man.
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“Perception management” came to prominence during the Reagan administration, which used the term to describe its propaganda efforts.
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1½ cups frozen chopped spinach (10-ounce package), thawed2 medium tomatoes½ teaspoon salt1 cup water½ cup clam juice1 tablespoon parsley1 tablespoon wine vinegar1 pound shelled, deveined shrimp Cook spinach according to package directions; drain. Cut a then slice off the top of tomatoes. Gently remove pulp; reserve. Sprinkle cavities with salt. Mix tomato pulp with spinach. […]
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Investigative journalist James Bamford explains why Ukraine and Poland should be the top suspects in the Nord Stream blasts.
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Javad Marandi, a major Conservative Party benefactor, is named as a 'person of importance' in a money laundering court case, sparking fresh questions over party donations, Josiah Mortimer reports
Markets in which only a few sellers or suppliers dominate are oligopolies. What happens to prices depends on whether the companies are cooperating or competing.
Britain remains one of only four countries in Europe where smacking children is legal — as long as it meets an ambiguous definition of “reasonable punishment.” Despite this, British movements against corporal punishment have flexed impressive muscle in recent decades: they have seen it off in the courts (1948), in the navy (1957), in prisons (1967), […]
Witches of Lychford: Night of the Gnomes! So, I’ve decided to begin a serial on Substack. And it’s going to be a sequel to my bestselling Lychford series of rural fantasy novellas! (Though it’ll be absolutely fine for those who haven’t read the books too, because we’ll re-introduce the whole concept. Though you will be spoiled for […]
Using entirely bogus pretexts, the police are deploying oppressive new laws to shut down peaceful protest. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th May 2023 The more unequal a society becomes, the more oppressive its laws must be. This, I think, explains new acts that would not be out of place in a police […]
The axioms now in use have been derived from a meagre and narrow experience and from a few particulars of most common occurrence… Nor should it count for much that … he often cites experiments. For he had come to his decision beforehand, without taking proper account of experience in setting up his decisions and […]
A Florida professor breaks the record for time living underwater.
Biden will NOT negotiate on the debt ceiling. Well,
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. So when ‘modern’ mainstream economists use their models — standardly assuming rational expectations, Walrasian market clearing, unique equilibria, time invariance, linear separability and homogeneity of both inputs/outputs and technology, infinitely lived intertemporally optimizing representative agents with homothetic and identical preferences, etc. — and standardly ignoring complexity, diversity, uncertainty, coordination problems, non-market clearing prices, real […]
Today (May 17, 2023), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Wage Price Index, Australia – for the March-quarter 2023, which shows that the aggregate wage index rose by 0.8 per cent over the quarter (steady) and 3.7 per cent over the 12 months. The media are touting how strong the wages growth…
Here’s a short thread from Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post spelling it out in a nutshell: What’s in this supposedly commonsense bill McCarthy is demanding in exchange for not destroying the global economy? Here’s my handy guide, for those interested in the substance of the legislation and not just political gamesmanship. 1. Unspecified across-the-board cuts to nondefense discretionary spending, down by one-third on average in 2024, after inflation. The cuts would then expand to roughly 59%, on average, by 2033 Does this mean WIC? Border security? Pells? FBI? No one knows https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/25/mccarthy-national-debt-limit-budget/ 2. Defund the tax police – make it harder for IRS to collect taxes legally owed by wealthy/corporate tax cheats, and set back the agency’s other IT upgrades. (Would also increase deficits) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/20/gop-defund-irs-debt-limit/ 3. Medicaid work requirements – which sound nice, but are a solution in search of a problem.
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