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Bookmark or Share- The social cell - Bookforum MagazineIndignadas and Indignados of the World, Unite: Eric Toussaint on the international context of global outrage (in 5 parts). What do social movements accomplish and how? Humanizing the social sciences: A review of Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger.
- Tom McCarthy reconsiders avant-garde fiction’s response to power ...McCarthy, too, is aware that an avant-garde stance is not inherently radical, and that the line between realism and antirealism isn’t always so sharp: In his omnibus London Review of Books essay on the Belgian nouveau nouveau romancier Jean-Philippe Toussaint, McCarthy says he has no choice but to conclude with the cliché that he wonders ...
- The artistic possibilities of boredom - Bookforum MagazineNovels about nothing: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s earliest books, newly reissued by Dalkey Archive, show a man devoted to the artistic possibilities of boredom and minutiae. What's the Matter with Greenwich? Why the rich voted for Obama against their own economic interest.
- The rise of Latin America - Bookforum MagazineKenan Malik on The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James. Letter from Port of Spain: Is Trinidad the next Jamaica? Placencia wants tourism, but not too much of it — can the peninsula in Belize have it both ways?
- paper trail – Bookforum MagazineThe New York Times is publishing its first e-book, executive editor Bill Keller’s Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy: Complete and Updated Coverage from The New York Times (an essay adapted from the book's introduction will be published in this Sunday's Times magazine and is already available online).
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