Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Fall 2021

Anders, Jaroslaw,Ala, Mamtimin

ISBN 10: 1735718742 / ISBN 13: 9781735718743

Editore: Liberties Journal, 2021

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Riassunto:

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”

“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is”

“Libertiesis THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.”

Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time.

Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today’s culture and politics.

This issue of Liberties includes: 

• New work from Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa
• Drawings by Leonard Cohen published for the first time
• Mamtimin Ala’s essay on China’s genocide of the Uyghurs
• Jaroslaw Anders’ analysis of the crisis in Belarus
• Cass R. Sunstein on liberalism inebriated
• Richard Thompson Ford on what slavery does and does not explain
• Sean Wilentz on the historical strategy of the Republican Party
• Benjamin Moser writes about translation as a form of tourism in literary life
• Jonathan Zimmerman on the scandal of college teaching
• Mark Lilla on cults of innocence and their victims
• Helen Vendler on Adrienne Rich; Holly Brewer on race and enlightenment
• David Thomson asks, What shall we watch now?
• Celeste Marcus (managing editor) on the legend of Alice Neel
• Leon Wieseltier (editor) on Zionism’s beautiful stubbornness of survival
• And new poetry from Ange Mlinko and Shaul Tchernikhovsky, translated by Robert Alter

Informazioni sull'autore: <div class=""><div class=""><span class="">Leon Wieseltier is the editor of&#160;<i>Liberties</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of&#160;<i>Liberties</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Mamtimin Ala was born in East Turkistan in 1971. He is the author of&#160;<i>Worse than Death: Reflections on the Uyghur Genocide</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Richard Thompson Ford teaches law at Stanford University and is the author of&#160;<i>The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Relations Worse</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. This essay was translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Jaroslaw Anders is the author most recently of&#160;<i>Between Fire and Sleep: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry and Prose</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author of&#160;<i>The Rise of Democracy:&#160;Jefferson to Lincoln&#160;</i>and&#160;<i>No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation&#8217;s Founding</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Ange Mlinko teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her new collection of poems,&#160;<i>Venice</i>, will appear next year.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Benjamin Moser is a writer and translator living in Amsterdam. His most recent book is&#160;<i>Sontag: Her Life and Work</i>.&#160;</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Jonathan Zimmerman is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book&#160;<i>Free Speech: And Why You Should Give&#160;a Damn&#160;</i>was published this year.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Leonard Cohen the poet and songwriter died in 2016.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class="">Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and the author most recently of&#160;<i>Liars: Falsehoods and Free&#160;Speech in the Age of Deception</i>.&#160;</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class="">Mark Lilla is Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of&#160;<i>The Stillborn God&#160;</i>and&#160;<i>The Once and Future Liberal</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University and the author of many books on poetry.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Holly Brewer teaches history at the University of Maryland and is the author of&#160;<i>By Birth or Consent: Children, Law and the Anglo-American Revolution&#160;in Authority</i>.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Shaul Tchernikhovsky was a renowned Hebrew poet and translator. He died in Jerusalem in 1943. Robert Alter is professor of Hebrew and&#160;Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkley.&#160;</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div class=""><span class="">David Thomson is the author of many books on film, most recently&#160;<i>A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors</i>.<br class=""></span></div></div><br>

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Titolo: Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: ...
Casa editrice: Liberties Journal
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: paperback
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