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The renowned poet, civil rights activist, and longtime Virginia Tech professor of English Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of eighty-one. Giovanni came up during the Black Arts Movement, self-publishing her debut collection of poems, Black Feeling, Black Talk in 1968 with the help of friends. She went on to publish more than twenty-five […] 
In the Irish Times, Sally Rooney writes about the climate crisis: “We know what’s already happening around us. And we know what’s coming next. When are we going to have the courage to stop it?” Citing Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Rooney discusses how capitalist impunity poses an existential threat. “Multinational corporations […] 
Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, about six astronauts on the International Space Station, is the winner of this year’s Booker Prize. At the Columbia Journalism Review, Joel Simon argues that journalists covering Trump’s second term may benefit from taking an approach akin to that of a foreign correspondent. Simon talked with Suzy Hansen, whose book Notes […] 
At Dissent, Gabriel Winant offers post-election analysis, outlining how Democratic leadership has “comprehensively failed to set the terms of ideological debate in any respect. Their defensiveness and hypocrisy served only to give encouragement to Trump while demobilizing their own voters, whom they will no doubt now blame—as though millions of disaggregated, disorganized individuals can constitute […] 
The Fall 2024 issue of Bookforum is out now! In this edition: A. S. Hamrah on Agnès Varda’s stunning and nonlinear career, Brandon Taylor on the novels of Sally Rooney, Justin Taylor on getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives, Charlotte Shane and Jamie Hood in conversation, Christian Lorentzen on Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, […] 
The poet and translator Anne Carson will receive the Paris Review’s 2025 Hadada Award, which recognizes “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Reviewing Carson’s latest book, Wrong Norma, in the Winter 2024 issue of Bookforum, Jennifer Krasinski observed: “It is a fitting irony that […] 
At The New Inquiry, read the Palestinian Youth Movement’s statement marking one year since October 7: “It will take decades to understand the scale of the violence Palestinians have endured this year. The grief across the Arab world is unfathomable. Our children are not numbers. They are among the two million forgotten by a world […] 
The fall issue of the Paris Review is out now, with prose by Josephine Baker and Morgan Thomas, poetry by Hannah Arendt and Sara Gilmore, interviews with Rosemarie Waldrop and Javier Cercas, and more. Online at n+1, read A. S. Hamrah on a sampling of this summer’s movies. On Osgood Perkins’s Longlegs: “Ordinary things like […] 
In The Guardian, Moira Donegan covers last night’s presidential debate: “Trump failed to convincingly land attacks on Harris, and instead he spent much of the night arguing on the turf that his opponent chose for him. There was no bait she offered him that he didn’t take.” Tonight at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, Charlotte […] 
For The Nation, Benjamin Kunkel considers Daniel Susskind’s Growth: A History and a Reckoning and Kohei Saito’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, and cites a recent Nature article stating that due to the effects of climate change, “the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of […]