Ever wonder why there are a half dozen Israeli communities located so close to Gaza? My latest ✌️ palestine.beehiiv.com/p/the-origins-…

So they’re offering boat tours in Israel off the coast of Gaza to watch it get bombed and to see the place where they plan to build new settlements?

"Do you want a beeper?" US State Department Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt cracks repugnant joke making light of the Israeli terror attack which killed children and left thousands maimed in Lebanon, including nurses Lipstadt, a Biden admin official, was

Older readers of The Observer will obviously prefer the work of Richard Osman and Ian McEwan

Isabella Hammad: “Obviously, there’s a genocide right now: that’s why I’ve been moved to write [nonfiction], just as a person and a human in the world who has felt that need.” theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…

so little happened for so long youtube.com/watch?v=3T-Qx0…

Cannes, south of France, this morning, home of the iconic film festival. Ive run out of words to adequately express how badly the media continues to fail us

the silence of Stephen King and Margaret Atwood

People talk about Kim Stanley Robinson as a prophet of climate politics, but he's also a prophet of violence. Nearly all his recent novels grapple with a future full of anonymous, automated, untraceable political violence. A dystopia that Israel and the US are accelerating.

Ted Lewis, 'Plender' (Pan Books, 1973) "Brian Plender. A man who has made a career in corruption... And Plender bears a long-standing grudge against Peter Knoll, a photographer with very bizarre sexual tendencies..." "Excitements galore" - EVENING STANDARD

"something as light and throwaway as a detective novel may reveal patterns that underlie the workings of our society, and of history itself"

“This book is a tour de force of British Sausage making... It is ideal for beginners but it also assumes that readers will want to progress and so the necessary equipment and materials are explained" (Hachette, 2015)

Difficult not to agree with Hanan Ashrawi. It's not just the ignorance, it's flaunting it the way he does.

"imagine trying to describe silence with words"

Sally Rooney will always have my heart for her unequivocal support for Palestine. As we are learning in real time, it takes a lot to be a decent person in the west right now. Here she is at Southbank Centre tonight, before beginning her reading.

Salman Rushdie exposes his narrow colonialist intellect theguardian.com/books/article/…

"Who is your favorite hero of fiction?" "Axel Heyst in Joseph Conrad’s 'Victory' " themarginalian.org/2014/10/02/joa…

The fact that genocide is understood to be an exclusively emotional term with no rational basis for definition reveals both a poor understanding of the history of that term and of the relation between emotions and politics.

“In China now, as in the US then, science fiction’s Golden Age reflects a nation embracing its newfound superpower status.” Sasha Karsavina reviews Han Song’s "Hospital" and "Exorcism" and Mingwei Song’s "Fear of Seeing." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-da…

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