Letting It Rip in “Like Love: Essays and Conversations”

Letting It Rip in "Like Love: Essays and Conversations"

[ad_1] Towards the end of The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson writes that she considered writing a letter to her son before he was born but decided against it because it felt too much like an act of naming, or of “irrevocable classification, interpellation.” She briefly recalls Linda Hamilton at the end of The Terminator heroically recording … Read more

Class and Conversations in “We Need To Talk” – Chicago Review of Books

Class and Conversations in “We Need To Talk” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Inequality may be as old as human society, but never has it been this extreme, quantifiable and remediable. We’ve seen everyone from the Pope to Bernie Sanders to Thomas Piketty break it down. In meme-speak, guillotine GIFs have been proliferating on Twitter since 2016. But COVID-19 has made the message irrefutable. The fallout from … Read more