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7 must-read children’s books about inspiring Asian-Americans Apr 12, 2021: While we’ve recognized AAPI Heritage Month through children’s books in the past (be sure to check this post too), the recent increase in violent anti-Asian discrimination is leading me to choose bedtime stories that highlight the incredible accomplishments of so many AAPI people.
Reader's Digest: Life with an icon Apr 12, 2021: Prince's longtime bassist, Mark Brown, on what it was like to play, laugh and work with The Purple One. Mark Brown went from playing bass to 50 people in the local bars and clubs of Minneapolis, to being renamed “BrownMark” by Prince, and supporting The Rolling Stones on his debut.
How can U just leave me standing? ...in search of Prince Rogers Nelson. Apr 10, 2021: Podcast interview with BrownMark, author of My Life in the Purple Kingdom, with Sam Bleazard.
Kare 11: What are your kids reading? Apr 01, 2021: Gia Vang talks with Kao Kalia Yang and Billy Thao.
Nursing Clio: Trans Care Webs Apr 01, 2021: Hil Malatino’s Trans Care asks a seemingly simple question: What does care look like in trans lives?
The Guardian: 'Trans kids are not new': a historian on the long record of youth transitioning in America Apr 01, 2021: Republicans seeking to restrict children’s lives claim trans youth are a ‘new phenomenon’. Jules Gill-Peterson explains how medical archives prove them wrong
Kirkus Reviews: A powerful tale about finding purpose and strength in the face of extreme adversity. Mar 15, 2021: In the bleak Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, a brave group of young Hmong children, all cousins, rises up to help those they love.
Ms. Magazine: February Reads for the Rest of Us Feb 17, 2021: Probably unlike anything you’ve ever read, this remarkable novel is written in prose and fragments and is an alarmingly beautiful tale of decolonial resistance and the uncovering of a world of natural abundance, connection and compassion.
Bookforum: A constellation of books that teach us to reimagine the present Feb 16, 2021: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's syllabus for Bookforum. The works below can teach us how to encounter them if we pay attention. These writings refuse whiteness and colonialism by breaking open space, making room for worlds otherwise. This is world-building work, and these books’ exploratory nature makes them similar, in some sense, to speculative fiction. But these texts arise from and are rooted in the lived experiences of Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples. The worlds they envision allow us to see the present—and the past—anew, and are life-giving precisely because they refuse the efforts by white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism to undermine them. They offer a study on how to read, or how to read differently, or perhaps how to listen.
Aufhebunga Bunga podcast: The Worst Class ft. Catherine Liu Feb 16, 2021: Catherine Liu joins us to talk about the worst class in history (the PMC), and how and why they hoard all forms of secularised value. We discuss the development of the PMC as a class, figure out when it stopped being "heroic", and debate who the PMC'S leader might be. We conclude by asking whether the Left needs the PMC (or vice versa?).
"This substantial picture book narrative is graced by vivid, beautifully rendered details." Feb 15, 2021: After her family gets electricity, The Range Eternal stove is replaced by a modern stove that doesn’t require tending, but clearly something is lost, too, in story that ends with the now-adult adult narrator finding the stove of her childhood in a thrift store and bringing it home to share the vision and history found in its flames, and the warmth of its heart with her family.
Seven beings serve as Mashkawaji, a fabulous creature that is frozen in ice, in this extraordinary novel. Feb 12, 2021: How does one write a novel in static English language using material that is derived from a dynamic system of Indigenous oral storytelling and performance? Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, who is a member of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg people of southern Ontario, uses a combination of genres — poetry, literary prose and dialogue — in her most recent novel, "Noopiming."
Metropolis Q&A: Mariana Mogilevich on New York City’s Path to a More Democratic and Diverse Civic Realm Feb 10, 2021: Upon the release of her book The Invention of Public Space, the architectural historian discusses a little-known but pivotal chapter of urban history.
LSE Review of Books: "A critical contribution to debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests." Feb 09, 2021: The Death of Asylum is "a critical contribution to debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."
NYT: From Turkey to China to Norway, These Novels Take You Back in Time Feb 03, 2021: Tiina Nunnally’s new translation captures the dark imperatives of a land where clan loyalties and ancient codes of honor have become ensnarled in the struggle between rising powers: the church and the royal court.
Darts and Letters: EP9: The Founding Grift Jan 29, 2021: (@58:36) Catherine Liu is a professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine and the author of the new polemic Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. She takes PMCs for scolding the working class, and for upholding their big grift: meritocracy.
The Jacobin Show: The Professional-Managerial Class w/ Catherine Liu Jan 27, 2021: What is the professional-managerial class and how is it standing in the way of economic redistribution? Catherine Liu explains how this group of elite workers has come to serve capitalism while insisting on their own virtue.
Washington Examiner: The dictatorship of virtue Jan 21, 2021: Catherine Liu’s polemical new book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, argues that the professional-managerial class-working class alliance was doomed from the start for the simple reason that the two classes’ interests are fundamentally opposed.
Spiked: Our scolding elites Jan 21, 2021: How the professional-managerial class presents its power over the working class as moral superiority.
NYT: The Olympics Were No Fluke. American Women Are Excelling in Cross-Country Skiing. Jan 13, 2021: Jessie Diggins won the notoriously grueling Tour de Ski, after she and Rosie Brennan notched 1-2 finishes in two consecutive stages.
Escape your living room for a canoe trip with the first women to paddle from the Twin Cities to Canada's Hudson Bay. Dec 23, 2020: Midwest Living excerpt: Hudson Bay Bound.
Literary Hub: The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Dec 09, 2020: Interview with Michael Schumacher editor for The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971
WTIP North Shore Community Radio: Walking the Old Road Dec 02, 2020: Interview with Staci Lola Drouillard author of Walking the Old Road
Death Panel podcast: Decarcerating Disability Nov 26, 2020 Death Panel podcast
Publishers Weekly: Noopiming Nov 16, 2020: Review of Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publishers Weekly: "A bold, affecting portrait of an urban landscape and its network of living beings." Nov 16, 2020: Canadian writer Simpson (As We Have Always Done) draws on indigenous Abinhinaabeg beliefs to create a bold, affecting portrait of an urban landscape and its network of living beings.
The World According to Jesse Ventura: The Alchemy of Meth Nov 14, 2020: Interview with Jason Pine author of The Alchemy of Meth
WTIP North Shore Community Radio: The Soup and Bread Cookbook Nov 13, 2020: Interview with Beatrice Ojakangas author of The Soup and Bread Cookbook
Literary Hub: Olav Audunssøn Nov 12, 2020: Olav Audunssøn excerpt from Translator Tiina Nunnally
Bookapotamus: The Silver Box Nov 11, 2020: Review of The Silver Box by Margi Preus and the Enchantment Lake Series