"The heart of the book is the stories, which are told with evocative first-person prose that places you on the ground with these people."
New in review, Thomas J. Millay on Heath Pearson's Life beside Bars, from @DukePress: https://t.co/1G3nPhJys4
295. Illness, Wellness, and Homelihead - Julian of Norwich and Heidegger with Hannah Lucas
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@joynessthebrave I remember reading about Paul Farmer in Mountains beyond Mountains that if he completed a task (‘Bwat’ in Haitian Creole) that wasn’t on his task list, he would write it down, put a check mark by it, sit back, smile.
"Each essay takes as its theme a specific cultural product: at least one novel, sometimes several. This is Jameson at his most grounded and interesting."
New in review, Thomas J. Millay on Fredric Jameson's Inventions of a Present, from @VersoBooks: https://t.co/vLtSikKLdf
@Agonhamza And carping on Jameson for being overly generous—as if this was just a defect of his personality. Isn’t it rather a result of Jameson’s commitment to Ernst Bloch and utopia as method? Yet Bloch is not mentioned here.
@Agonhamza Overall an okay review, but I found some parts puzzling. Was Deleuze really celebrating schizophrenia? Who are the people following Deleuze who did this? (No specifics given here.)