Boston Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In an event co-hosted with @philosopher1923, philosopher Kate Soper, author of the lead essay in our most recent issue, The Politics of Pleasure, sat down with leading socialist feminist thinker @lynne_segal to discuss the finer points of Soper's argument. https://t.co/e7PC0J8uYt

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An interview with Derecka Purnell about her new book ‘Becoming Abolitionists’ (@astrahousebooks), how we should think about the systems that produce violence, and, ultimately, the resources that will allow people to live safely: https://t.co/cAHNh3upDX

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“You can’t address freedom without discussing dispossession of land, the genocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of people of African descent.” @lewgord talks to Nathalie Etoke about her book Black Existential Freedom, just out from @RLPGBooks: https://t.co/wPYYJR8ZR7

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Join BR arts editor Adam McGee and @drovarela at @booksmithtweets next week for the launch of Varela's new novel, THE TOWN OF BABYLON (@astrahousebooks)! Free for all — just register at the link: https://bit.ly/3966aMb https://t.co/oUbiTlEQpj

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Herman Melville is best known for Moby Dick—but he devoted the second half of his life to writing poetry. What can a new Complete Poems teach us about his place in the canon of American letters? 🐳 #NationalPoetryMonth https://t.co/2JHSM3YzLT

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Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book Bad Mexicans is “a tale of heroes, antagonists, and networks of power,” as well as “a story of everyday, local acts of resistance that offer us lessons about ourselves,” writes Jonna Perrillo. https://t.co/BCuaf5rByf

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“Where is T. Thomas Fortune in the pantheon of radical Black intellectuals?” On the forgotten founder of abolition democracy, taken from Robin D. G. Kelley's foreword to the new edition of Black and White (@simonschuster): https://t.co/5Djlip9qOd

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From the film by Rebecca Hall to Brit Bennett’s 'The Vanishing Half', recent dramatizations of racial passing reveal its complexity. Individual choice aside, we must also study passing as part of a collective method to correct racial injustice:https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-burdened-virtue-of-racial-passing/

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Upset with the eroticism in his poems, reviewers for Leaves of Grass in 1855 called the work "a mass of stupid filth." Fast-forward to 2022, and Walt Whitman's queerness is celebrated — but complicated: https://t.co/01yRssC2PS

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"1969 saw the birth of two of the most important texts of Africana religious thought: John Mbiti’s African Religions and Philosophy and James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power." Cone died #OnThisDay 5 years ago: https://t.co/mOJfGVDJqr