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@namwalien

"I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." | "Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading." -Toni Morrison

I don't do work via Twitter DM Katılım Ağustos 2014
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𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ
in 1912, a russian animator used real dead insects as live puppets in a stop-motion film. it’s a story about a married beetle who cheats on his wife with a dragonfly, only to discover his wife also cheating on him with another beetle. it’s still funny over 100 years later
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Tom Perkins@PomTerkins·
Judges are largely finding that criticism of Israel/Zionism is 1st amendment protected speech, not antisemitic. Ditto for slogans like “From the river to the sea” Major blows to pro-Israel lawfare operation theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
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Linda Mamoun@mamoun_linda·
This is the first NYT headline acknowledging Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians — something human rights groups have documented for decades.
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Namwali@namwalien·
I'm not shocked; in THE OLD DRIFT, a neocolonial corporation uses Zambians as test subjects for an H.I.V. vaccine. But I WAS shocked when a U.S. mining tech company in Zambia wanted to give my novel to their American workers for a 'book club.' This is neoliberal politics, too.
Thea Riofrancos@triofrancos

I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals

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g a b y@gabydvj·
i love the way you guys talk about movies on here because it reminds me that there are soooo many ways to watch and interpret films. and many of them are wrong :)
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Adam Nayman
Adam Nayman@brofromanother·
A great piece on PTA that I teach - and which students like bouncing their own feelings against- is Pinkerton’s assessment for The Point; lots to disagree with, but I thought of the measured, prophetic ending while watching the director with his statuettes thepointmag.com/criticism/the-…
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Julian K. Jarboe
Julian K. Jarboe@JulianKJarboe·
I feel like a certain plot got lost when "trauma" stopped being a thing that can happen to literally anyone including perpetrators and instead became shorthand for a relative moral position.
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Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson·
Jeffrey Sachs does not mince words
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🇵🇸i have never heard of philosophy
The really nice thing abt being a humanities guy is that your dream is probably just reading and hanging out, and it's really not that hard to do that if you're fine with being poor.
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The Paris Review@parisreview·
“I got a parallel Black cultural education … What this countereducation said at a very basic level was, You have value. Black people around the world are the center, they’re not the margin, and the cultural artifacts you create matter.” —John Keene buff.ly/juXx533
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Namwali@namwalien·
Woke up to this gorgeousness! V grateful to honor Morrison's genius in this way.
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Flávia Maynarte ☭🔺
Flávia Maynarte ☭🔺@Flaviamaynarte·
Interessante que as guerras têm o nome do país atacado: Guerra do Vietnã, Guerra do Iraque, Guerra do Afeganistão, Guerra da Ucrânia, Guerra do Irã. Isso porque, se tivessem o nome de quem atacou, seria muito confuso, pois 80% dos conflitos seriam chamados de Guerra dos EUA
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For understandable reasons, there's been a lot of critique of 'passive' voice in headlines lately. But I've noticed a slippage--a headline can elide an actor's agency and still (insidiously) use 'active' voice! We might want to call out 'circumlocution' and 'obfuscation' instead.
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The Paris Review@parisreview·
“As interested as I am in writers’ lives, and as devoted as I am to the biographical essay as a form of literary criticism, these days I sometimes miss the literary emphasis. In the end, Baldwin’s novels, Woolf’s novels, anyone’s novels are trying to escape the writer and live their own lives.” From our Art of Nonfiction interview with Darryl Pinckney. buff.ly/0C7aGMC
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Namwali@namwalien·
BAY AREA, THIS IS TONIGHT! I'll be in conversation about ON MORRISON in Oakland for a special early Bay Area Book Festival Event with the incredible @cathyparkhong! Hope to see you there!
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