Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

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In the essays of Jamaica Kincaid, the obsessions and fascinations of a singular writer - The Boston Globe “Putting Myself Together,“ Jamaica Kincaid’s new, career-spanning essay collection, is a kind of intellectual autobiography of a writer who emigrated to the US at just 16 and was writing for The New Y...

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Hotter summers could be making us sicker in unexpected ways

I’m alright. How’s it going?

A lock of hair, a baby rattle — and a history of slavery - The Boston Globe In her powerful, revelatory new book, Mathelinda Nabugodi performs what she calls “an act of historical recovery,” reexamining British Romanticism’s beloved literary superstars through the debris they...

@kerriarsenault.bsky.social putting it down.

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I Remember the 2002 Fourth of July Hill Country Floods. This Year, the Water Returned. These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

In the parts of the Hill Country known as “Flash Flood Alley,” a geographic area subject to rapid onset flooding, the changing climate, manifested through extreme weather paired with the distinctly harsh and rugged landscape, can lead to particularly deadly scenarios.

Angel Reese fed up with WNBA officiating: ‘I’m tired of this’ Angel Reese aired her grievances with WNBA officiating following the Chicago Sky's road loss at Minnesota on Sunday.

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Angel Reese said she was fed up with the way she and the Chicago Sky have been officiated throughout the season. “I don’t give a damn if I get fined."

Europe should reduce US and China ‘dual dependencies’, Macron warns French president also spoke of empowered ‘wider Europe’ on first day of state visit to UK European countries need to reduce their “dual dependencies” on the US and China, Emmanuel Macron has warned, as he sketched out his vision of an empowered “wider Europe” on the first day of a historic state visit. The French president addressed several hundred MPs and guests at the start of a three-day state trip – the first state visit of a European leader since Brexit. Continue reading...

Europe should reduce US and China ‘dual dependencies’, Macron warns

Trump says Putin ‘just wants to kill people’ — is their bromance over? The pair have been closer than any of their predecessors, spending hours on the phone. But the American president is losing patience

Trump says Putin ‘just wants to kill people’ — is their bromance over?

The pair have been closer than any of their predecessors, spending hours on the phone. But the American president is losing patience

Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...

‘Her death seemed to drive people back on themselves: do I matter? It is a reaction to the totality presented in the poems.’

@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...

‘Normative accounts of democracy claim that the arbitrary use of force stands in opposition to democratic rights. For Achille Mbembe, however, necropolitics isn’t democracy’s opposite but its dark underbelly.’

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Alex Abramovich | Escape Velocity ‘There are ten thousand freedoms,’ the late Joshua Clover once said, ‘but rock freedom is definitely set – in...

‘The official version has Berry laying a ‘blues’ backbeat under a country melody. In reality, the melodic elements drew on the blues; the rhythm on Western swing. It’s the exact inverse of what we’ve been told.’

Alex Abramovich on Chuck Berry’s first single: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Issue 47.12 is now online, featuring:

@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe
Daniella Shreir on Cannes
Tareq Baconi on Gaza
Blake Morrison on G.W. Pabst
and a cover by Dror Cohen.

Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

Angel Reese’s 6th straight 15-plus-rebound game can’t keep Chicago Sky from falling to 5-13 Angel Reese had 22 points and 15 rebounds in the Chicago Sky’s 81-79 loss to the Washington Mystics to extend her WNBA record to six straight games with 15-plus rebounds.

Angel Reese finished with 22 points and 15 rebounds to extend her WNBA record to six straight games with 15-plus boards.

But the Sky fell to 5-13 with an 81-79 loss to the Mystics.

American Insomnia Tossing and turning through our national sleep crisis

“I like to tell people that the night before I stopped sleeping, I slept. Not only that: I slept well.”

@jennifersenior.bsky.social became an insomniac at 29. She writes about her years-long quest for sleep—and how America is making its national sleep crisis worse.

Institutional Denial of Civil Rights Brando Simeo Starkey’s Their Accomplices Wore Robes provides a devastating critique and analysis of the Supreme Court’s role in preserving a racial caste system.

A timely interrogation of the Supreme Court and its hand in maintaining the racial caste system in the US. www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic... Institutional Denial of Civil Rights