Just to be clear: this is Shafik’s employment history (from Wikipedia). Why she is the head of an academic institution in the first place is beyond me.
Resign.

Without protests, we would still live in a segregated country.

Without protests, women would still be second class citizens.

Without protests, the LGBTQ+ community would still be hiding their identities.

for the latest edition of Literary Review I worked on some excellent pieces – Morten Høi Jensen on Kafka
ella fox-martens 🛸 on Honor Levy (Honor Levy)
Rhodri Lewis on Shakespeare novels
Ed Cumming on Kaliane Bradley
zoe g on National Theatre's Dickens show
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Wrote about Kafka for the May issue of Literary Review - thanks Leo Robson for the opportunity!

literaryreview.co.uk/paranoid-human…

Found today (not a first edition, likely second US hardcover printing).
“Open the universe a little!”

The Kafka Industry

Back on this shit:

Happy May Day, comrades 🌺

In the bar this evening: “It’s like Lear, but with daughters.”

Perhaps we’ll get another Harper’s letter, entitled: “Yes, but just not like that…”

The song “Bye Bye Bad Man” was inspired by the événements of ‘68. The lemons on the album cover are actually a reference to the protestors using citrus-soaked rags as improvised teargas masks.
Blasting this track today & dedicating it to all the students bravely demonstrating.

Of course.

Solidarity
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ICYMI

What you hear during a performance of 4'33' is a register of the nature and condition of your environment—making the piece is at once a conceptual work, a spiritual discipline and a political act.
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'A partisan of the living, the incomprehensibility of non-existence was something he loathed...If Socrates went to his death tranquilly, Canetti went to his with a bitter fist'. Terrific essay by Jared Marcel Pollen on the life and work of Elias Canetti: newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/04/…

A thrill, by the way, to be in the same issue as Jared Marcel Pollen, whose piece on Lispecter is excellent: commonwealmagazine.org/other-side-sil…

MASS STRIKE NOW

Cohen on Canetti. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/2…