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“It’s Not Science Fiction” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Bill McKibben reviews co-contributor Kim Stanley Robinson for the New York Review of Books

Monday, December 14th, 2020

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“Odd Couples, Carbon Coins, and Narrative Scopes” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books

Monday, December 14th, 2020

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“What Will the World Look Like in 30 Years? Sci-fi Author Kim Stanley Robinson Takes Us There” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor interviewed for Rolling Stone

Monday, December 14th, 2020

Rolling Stone talks to Robinson about the role of science in a sci-fi novel, violence as a political tool, and why he thinks it’s time to buy out the oil companies.

Read the interview here.

“Slowing Climate Change With Sewage Treatment for the Skies” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Kim Stanley Robinson writes for Bloomberg

Monday, December 14th, 2020

Removing carbon from the atmosphere is expensive—but so are a lot of other necessary things.

Read the article here.

“Belén Fernández has established herself as one of the most trenchant observers of America’s interventions around the world” — EXILE selected as the Left Book Club book of the month

Monday, December 14th, 2020

What it means to live as a self-imposed American exile.

Buy the book here.

“There are two thinkers whose global perspectives can especially help stem our obsession to change the world without taking the time to interpret it first: Slavoj Zizek and Bruno Latour” — PANDEMIC! 2 author and REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor featured on Al Jazeera

Monday, December 14th, 2020

How have philosophers responded to the pandemic?

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Paul Alan Smith and Carl Weathers discuss PEN PAL on the Dean Obeidallah Show

Monday, December 14th, 2020

“Biden’s Choice on Julian Assange and the First Amendment” — IN DEFENSE OF JULIAN ASSANGE contributor Charles Glass writes for the Intercept

Monday, December 14th, 2020

Assange’s liberty represents that of all journalists and publishers whose job is to expose government and corporate criminality without fear of prosecution.

Read the article here.

“The racially coded usage of bipartisan calls to ‘save the middle class.'” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David Roediger interviewed on A Public Affair

Friday, December 11th, 2020

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“State sponsored assassinations in foreign countries are becoming the new norm” — WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn writes for the Independent

Friday, December 11th, 2020

Governments are carrying out ‘targeted killings’ abroad as demonstrations of strength but they discredit and delegitimatise those responsible, writes Cockburn.

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“Notes on the 2020 Election” — THE MONSTER ENTERS author Mike Davis writes for the New Left Review

Friday, December 11th, 2020

“Trench Warfare”

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“We Need a Commission to Investigate Trump’s Covid Response” — THE MONSTER ENTERS author Mike Davis interviewed on Start Making Sense

Friday, December 11th, 2020

“Trump’s Gone, So What’s Next for the Democrats?” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi writes for Rolling Stone

Friday, December 11th, 2020

The party needs to find another message besides: “We are not Trump”

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“The Best Books of 2020” — THE MONSTER ENTERS featured on PopMatters

Friday, December 11th, 2020

Davis ends with the monster metaphor that gives his book its title, invoking the “1950s sci-fi thrillers of my childhood” in which scientists sound an alarm about an alien threat, politicians ignore it, but ultimately “the world wakes up to the peril and unites to defeat the invader.” He wonders whether we — with a “real monster at our door” — will wake up in time.

See the full list here.

“There will be no return to normality after Covid” — PANDEMIC! 2 author Slavoj Žižek writes for RT

Friday, December 11th, 2020

It’s time to accept that the pandemic has changed the way we exist forever. Now the human race has to embark on the profoundly difficult and painful process of deciding what form the ‘new normality’ is going to take.

Read the article here.

“Joe Biden Is the Ultimate ‘Yes Man'” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor Roger Waters interviewed on Going Underground

Friday, December 11th, 2020

“Is Global Stability a Pipe Dream?” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor Yanis Varoufakis debates John Bolton

Friday, December 11th, 2020

“John Freeman Joins Knopf” — TALES OF TWO PLANETS editor announced as Executive Editor

Friday, December 11th, 2020

Author and New York City publishing fixture John Freeman will join Knopf as executive editor on March 15, acquiring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He will report to executive v-p and publisher Reagan Arthur. Freeman comes to Knopf from Literary Hub, where he was executive editor, and formerly edited Granta. He is also the founder of the literary annual Freeman’s and multiple anthologies, including The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, which is forthcoming in 2021.

See the announcement here.

“Chilling… Ponders the fate of America’s most beleaguered majority group.” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS reviewed by the Progressive

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

The Middle Class in Crisis . . . Again

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“The Future of New York” — TALES OF TWO CITIES illustrator Molly Crabapple in conversation with Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Greenberg, Hari Kunzru, and Jana Prikryl for the NYPL and the New York Review of Books

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

Two enduring city institutions, The New York Public Library and The New York Review of Books, join forces for an evening of conversation grounded in the ideas of possibility and promise. Regular NYRB contributors—fellow New Yorkers all—gather to discuss their reasons for optimism about what lies ahead and to speculate on how New York will come back from its setbacks in 2020.

Tue. Dec 8, 2020 8:00pm – 9:00pm EST

Register here.

“The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020” — CRUEL author Sue Coe featured in the New York Times

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

Credit…Clockwise from center: Sue Coe, via SaveArtSpace and Art at a Time Like This; Carlos Vilas Delgado/EPA, via Shutterstock; The Estate of Noah Davis; Charlie Rubin for The New York Times; The Estate of Philip Guston and Hauser & Wirth.

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“Trump’s Dilemma: Who Will Give Him Asylum Now?” — CAUTIVOS author Ariel Dorfman writes in the Nation

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

The best candidate, by far, is Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, the despotic ruler of North Korea, Dorfman writes.

Read the full article here.

“Pamela Anderson calls on Trump to pardon Julian Assange” — WE ARE MILLIONS featured in the Sun

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

On Monday, Anderson also tweeted the link to an online event launching a book of portraits [WE ARE MILLIONS] of Assange supporters around the world, which her photos seemed to be tied to.

The book is part of the Courage Foundation’s #WeAreMillions arts project showing global support for Assange’s fight against extradition.

“#WeAreMillions features striking black-and-white images of supporters holding signs that express simply and clearly why they are standing up for Assange,” the book’s webpage states.

The images “aim to convey the breadth of recognition that Assange’s persecution represents a threat to journalistic freedom and whistle-blowing everywhere,” it states.

According to the book’s webpage, “the Trump administration wants to prosecute Assange for publishing US government documents in 2010 that exposed war crimes, previously uncounted civilian casualties, and human rights abuses.”

Read the full article here.

“The Future of the Left” — PANDEMIC! 2 author Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Cornel West on the Michael Brooks Show

Friday, December 4th, 2020

“12 books on climate and environment for the holidays” — TALES OF TWO PLANETS featured on Yale Climate Connections

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Twelve books address decades of writing on climate change, reassess the challenges, offer hope and guidance for action, and envision very different, climate-changed futures.

See the full list here.

“How climate change will force humanity to rethink capitalism, borders, terrorism, and currency” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed on the Ezra Klein Show

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Why the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism; how changes to the biosphere will force humanity to rethink capitalism, borders, terrorism, and currency; the influence of eco-Marxism on Robinson’s thinking; how existing power relationships define the boundaries of what is considered violence; why science fiction as a discipline is particularly suited to grapple with climate change; what a complete rethinking of the global economic system could look like; why Robinson thinks geoengineering needs to be on the table; the vastly underrated importance of the Paris climate agreement, and much more.

Listen to the interview here.

“Trump’s worst crime must not be forgotten—ensuring the ethnic cleansing of Kurdish allies in Syria” — WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn writes for the Independent

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Eyewitness testimony lays bare the atrocities committed in territory occupied by Turkey

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“What do progressives make of Joe Biden’s cabinet picks so far?” — AMERICAN MONSTROSITY author Nathan J. Robinson writes for the Guardian

Friday, December 4th, 2020

The bad news for progressives is that there has not yet been a single person announced for an official post that the left can be enthusiastic about.

Read the article here.

NEW EVENT: “We Are Millions: We Are Julian Assange” — WE ARE MILLIONS contributors Chris Hedges, Angela Richter, and Ben Cohen in conversation with the Courage Foundation on 12/10

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Please join OR Books and the Courage Foundation for an event celebrating the new book WE ARE MILLIONS.

This book is part of the Courage Foundation’s #WeAreMillions, an arts project demonstrating the global support for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange as he fights extradition to the United States. The Trump Administration wants to prosecute Assange for publishing U.S. government documents in 2010 that exposed war crimes, previously uncounted civilian casualties, and human rights abuses. If the prosecution is successful he will spend the rest of his life in prison, and journalists around the world will be at risk.

WE ARE MILLIONS aims to convey the breadth of recognition that Assange’s persecution represents a threat to journalistic freedom and whistle-blowing everywhere.

*****Register through Eventbrite to receive details on how to stream this event.

Register here.

“AOC For NYC Mayor in 2021” — BERNIE’S BROOKLYN author Theodore Hamm writes for the Indypendent

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

The charismatic congresswoman could be the transformative leader her hometown needs in a moment of crisis. In the process, she could strengthen her case for a future presidential run.

Read the article here.

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