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.@NCaplanBricker reviews Sheila Heti's Pure Colour, which remakes vehicles of cultural continuity into pearls of wisdom for the end of the world: https://t.co/5HBNZfRq8E

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Deborah Lipstadt's appointment to US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism has been celebrated as a major win against anti-Jewish hatred. But critics say that her analysis leaves her ill-equipped to address its threat. @maricohen95 reports: https://t.co/QRhQgaJunx

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"As a work of political theory, The Right to Be Lazy is incoherent and slapdash. But it earns its place in the anti-work canon as a piece of literature." From the Rest issue, @CharlieTyson1 reviews a new edition of socialist Paul Lafargue's 1883 polemic: https://t.co/vDTTopEeFn

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And contributing editor @shaabiranks examines the tension between productivist and conservationist approaches to the climate crisis in Matthew T. Huber’s Climate Change as Class War and Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass’s Half-Earth Socialism.

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17. In reviews, contributing writer @helenbetya responds to Rest Is Resistance, a new manifesto by the Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey, asking, “What kind of resistance is rest?” Photo by @capturedbytabia. https://t.co/XPC0E3QyDo

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Also in 2019, we published "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018," a poem by Daniel Borzutzky, who grew up attending Tree of Life. https://t.co/OXKwrjJCTk

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"What kinds of tactics are defensible in fighting climate change?" @BigMeanInternet speaks with Daniel Goldhaber on turning Andreas Malm’s eco-terrorist manifesto How to Blow Up a Pipeline into a heist movie https://t.co/WjZygzIDo4

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A revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s last play, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window," captures its author’s wry rejection of political nihilism, @SolomonAlisa writes. https://t.co/6YHneij4NO

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An adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing emphasizes the "meticulous surveillance" involved in the work of racial passing, Adrienne Brown writes in a review of Rebecca Hall's new film. https://t.co/5lpVvhHaDj

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We were saddened to learn of the death of feminist writer and organizer Meredith Tax. This summer, she spoke with @avi_steinberg about her reissued classic The Rising of the Women and the long, entangled histories of women’s movements and labor struggles. https://t.co/aIwSaxyJ92