New England Review of Books publishes & promotes literary commentary, news, and new writing. An amplification platform. Edited @zakbos, published @penandanvil.
Recently, one of our marketers discovered that Amazon does not allow "queer theory" to be included as a keyword in enhanced product descriptions (the fancy graphics you sometimes see at the bottom of a book page on Amazon).
🧵 The situation in Brooklyn is not so different. For a full year, we've been bargaining for a contract that delivers decent wages and work conditions for workers at this leading independent publisher. Here's an update…
For @NYTmag, I spent a year reporting this article about the problematic history of diversity in book publishing and the ways it has affected editors, authors and what you see (or don’t see) in bookstores https://t.co/8vgWhwquYm
#TheVisitors in the paper!
"@JezewskaJ's novel inspects the ways in which reality can be affected by abstractions: the stock exchange, energy reserve or the dark web. But C, the protagonist, is more concerned about the hallucinatory gnome in her flat."
https://t.co/UGBScV6cys
"Once you conclude that your house of faith is built on sand, you might as well demolish it and start digging in order to find bedrock so you can build anew."—Prof Alec Ryrie, on the history of athiesm. https://t.co/vIeGtIDKNf
'The recent discovery that I had appropriated passages from Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War (2017) in my novel The Dogs without realising I had done so...'
EXCUSE ME, WHAT
https://t.co/ujdsyNyqg5
"How fragile and arbitrary so many of our connections and connotations are..."—my review of Commuters by Toby Christian & Aftermath by @PretiTaneja for @TheLondonMag
https://t.co/hhOkFDic5R
“The function of good art – and by extension criticism practiced as an art – is to render its audience unfit to serve as an extraction site for the cultural killing machine.”
Incredible article. Immediately buying this book.
"Nearly all higher education leaders have accepted the duty to repress the contradiction between neoliberal economics and racial justice." "Broke" exposes the UC system as a textbook example of structural racism, @cnewf writes. https://t.co/LqtIImEgmP
Today on SOLRAD, Angela M. Sánchez has a wide-ranging essay featuring the past, present, and future of Mesoamerican stories and representation in comics and other media.
@_AngelaMSanchez
https://t.co/5dZ20uMjet
My piece on Irish women writers and 'likeability' is in today's @dubreviewbooks - it is a case study of recent examples of coded misogyny in literary criticism targeting Sally Rooney, Anne Enright, Edna O'Brien & Anna Burns. Read it here: https://t.co/Q6Fx5XaFwQ
Well, it's official, I start as the Book Review Editor for @LAReview in February! Send me your book reviews and interviews: Indie, emerging, poets, hybrid, and everything in between, please and thank you.
⭐️ THE WORLD AS WE KNEW IT: Dispatches from a Changing Climate, edited by @ingredient_x and @tajjaisen, receives a starred review from @PublishersWkly! ⭐️
This anthology of essays is "a moving mix of resolve and sorrow."
https://t.co/GDtQYgUe5g
“Wolf Point,” the second Cayne adventure, charts a tale of corruption and double-dealing that will ring depressingly familiar to anyone who follows Chicago politics.
#NewcityLit#Newcity https://t.co/H7J9mKYN2u