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Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks . . . .
Ibram X. Kendi, “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” and “American Nightmare.”
Cornel West, “A Boot Is Crushing American Democracy.”
Democracy Now, “Uprising and Abolition: Angela Davis on Movement Building, ‘Defund the Police,’ and Where We Go from Here.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People.”
Roxane Gay, “Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us.”
Jeet Heer, “The Fire This Time.”
Melvin Rogers, “We Should Be Afraid, But Not of Protesters.”
Matthew Dessem, “Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide.”
Jamelle Bouie, “The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.”
Adam Gabbatt, “Protests about Police Brutality Are Met with Wave of Police Brutality across US.”
Joshua Clover, “66 Days.”
Barbara Ehrenreich, “A Journalist Marked by Police Violence.”
Greg Afinogenov, “Everything Could Be Free.”
Jamilah King, “The Summer of 2020 Is Going to Be Long, Violent, and Necessary.”
Mara Gay, photographs by Jordan Gale, “The Nation’s Largest Police Force Is Treating Us as an Enemy.”
T. C. Sottek, “Caught on Camera, Police Explode in Rage and Violence across the US.”
Mark Helenowski, “Inside the Mayhem and Police Violence at Last Night’s Brooklyn Protest.”
Alex S. Vitale, “Policing Won’t Solve Our Problems” and “The Answer to Police Violence Is Not ‘Reform’. It’s Defunding. Here’s Why.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing Is People Pushed to the Edge.”
Alice Speri, Alleen Brown, and Mara Hvistendahl, “The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform.”
Steven W. Thrasher, “Proportionate Response.”
Editors of The Intelligencer, “Scenes from the Brooklyn Protest of the Death of George Floyd.”
Robert Greene II, “We Are Living in a Red Spring.”
Tess Owen, “Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests into a New Civil War.”
Lili Loofbourow, “How the Pandemic May Have Readied Us for This Protest.”
Arthur Rizer and Joseph Hartman, “How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police.”
Sarah Jaffe, “The Militarization of Everything.”
Dhruv Khullar, “How the Protests Have Changed the Pandemic.”
Rick Rojas, “Man Who Filmed Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Is Charged with Murder.”
Jane Lytvynenko and Craig Silverman, “We’re Keeping a Running List of Hoaxes and Misleading Posts about the Nationwide Police Brutality Protests.”
Andrew McCormick, “Military Leaders Have an Extraordinary Choice to Make as the Nation Protests.”
Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, “The DEA Has Been Given Permission to Investigate People Protesting George Floyd’s Death.”
Jonathan Stevenson, “Trump Was Wrong to Deploy Troops. Will the Military Push Back?”
Leah Donnella, “How Much Do We Need The Police?”
Farah Stockman and John Eligon, “Cities Ask If It’s Time to Defund Police and ‘Reimagine’ Public Safety.”
Ryan Bort, “New York City’s Curfew Is Only Leading to More Police Brutality.”
Margo D. Simon, “We Are Protesting during a Pandemic: Local Authorities Should Act Like It.”
Adam Edelman, “Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Cases on ‘Qualified Immunity’ for Police.”
Anne C. Bailey, “The Day I Met James Baldwin at Harvard.”
Elie Mystal, “The Bravery of Marching for Black Lives in the Middle of a Pandemic.”
Ben Smith, “Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms.”
Vincent Bevins, “The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood.”
Nick Turse, “Pentagon Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion” and “Zbellion.”
Chase Burns, “The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Renames, Expands, and Adds Film Programming.”
Jael Goldfine and Taylor Champlin, “How to Support Protesters in Every City.”
And Hartwick College Student Government Association, “Statement on George Floyd Protests Worldwide.”
Coronavirus
Front page of the New York Times, May 24, 2020.
Marilynne Robinson, “What Kind of Country Do We Want?”
The New York Times, “An Incalculable Loss.”
Levi Bryant, “A World Is Ending.”
Nitzan Lebovic, “Biopolitical Times: The Plague and the Plea.”
Nick Martin, “Against Productivity in a Pandemic.”
Marc Andreessen, “It’s Time to Build.”
Tomas Pueyo, “Coronavirus: Out of Many, One” and “Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now.”
Jennifer Senior, “Camp Is Canceled. Three More Months of Family Time. Help.”
Photographs by Caitlin Ochs, text by Gina Cherelus, “‘Dead Inside’: The Morgue Trucks of New York City.”
Aubrey Hirsch, front page of The New York Times, May 24, 2020, x 100.
Aubrey Hirsch, New York Times front page cut and pasted 100 times.
Hugh Pennington, “Overdispersion.”
Helen Rosner, “The Case for Letting the Restaurant Industry Die.”
Jennie Egerdie, “Frog and Toad Are Self-Quarantined Friends.”
Hunger Walker, “Immigrant Detainees Say ICE Is Using Coronavirus Disinfectant Sprays That Cause Bleeding, Burns, and Pain.”
COVID Tracking Project, “Why the Virus Is Spreading So Unevenly.”
Emily Flake, “I Was In Charge of the Deck Chairs on the Titanic, and They Absolutely Did Need Rearranging.”
And The Onion, “City Enters Phase 4 Of Pretending Coronavirus Over.”
Health
Shannon Paulus, “Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic Is Exactly Why Protests Must Continue.”
Christopher Magan, “Early Test Results Show Few Protesters Caught COVID-19.”
Miles Klee, “America Is Officially in ‘Fuck It’ Mode.”
Denise Grady, “Moderna Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Shows Promising Early Results.”
Rafaela Lindeberg, “Man Behind Sweden’s Controversial Virus Strategy Admits Mistakes.”
Nuclear and Environmental
Kim Stanley Robinson, “The Climate Case for a Jobs Guarantee.”
Troy Vettese, “A Marxist Theory of Extinction.”
Heather Houser, “When Scientific Data Shapes Climate Literature.”
“Russia Will Open Nuclear Disarmament Talks with US.”
Oliver Milman, “Renewables Surpass Coal in US Energy Generation for First Time in 130 Years.”
Damian Carrington, “Microplastic Pollution in Oceans Vastly Underestimated – Study.”
Jillian Ambrose, “The End of Plastic? New Plant-Based Bottles Will Degrade in a Year.”
Hyperarchival
Schomburg Center Staff, “Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List.”
Modern Language Association, “Antiracist Resources for Your 2020-2021 Teaching.”
Los Angeles Times, “Los Angeles Police Killings Database.”
Inside the Castle: Access all their ebooks for a $15 donation, 100% $$$ to support Black Lives Matter activists.
Ed Simon, ed., excerpt from The Anthology of Babel.
Vicky McKeever, “Joanna Hoffman, the Former Right-hand Woman of Steve Jobs, Says Facebook Is ‘Peddling in an Addictive Drug Called Anger’.”
Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston, eds., Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein’s L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile.
Andrew Sacher, “Watch Never-seen ’80s Footage of Fugazi, Operation Ivy, Neurosis, and MDC at 924 Gilman.”
Kim Lyons, “David Lynch’s Video Weather Reports from His Bunker Are Surprisingly Soothing.”
Andy Rudd, “Underwater ‘Ghost Village’ Frozen in Time Set to Resurface and You Can Visit.”
And Emily Barton Altman, Bathymetry.
Politics and Economics
Adam Liptak, “Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules.”
Evgeny Morozov, “Digital Socialism?”
Frank Pasquale, “Tales from the Crypto.”
Miles Mogulescu, “Neoliberal Capitalism Depends on White Supremacy.”
Mona Chalabi, “Coronavirus Is Revealing How Broken America’s Economy Really Is.”
Patricia Cohen, “Many Jobs May Vanish Forever as Layoffs Mount.”
Trump
Salman Rushdie, “I’ve Seen Dictators Rise and Fall. Beware, America.”
John Haltiwanger, “Trump’s Tear Gas Photo-op Was ‘Frightening’ to Authoritarianism Experts, Who Warn That His Behavior Will Only Get Worse without ‘Fierce Opposition.'”
Robert Reich, “Fire, Pestilence and a Country at War with Itself: The Trump Presidency Is Over.”
Ross Douthat, “It’s Trump’s Revolution.”
Susan B. Glasser, “The Trials of a Never Trump Republican.”
Jordan Moreau, “Trump Rally Forces People to Sign a Waiver to Not Sue if They Contract Coronavirus.”
David Siders, “‘We’re Thinking Landslide’: Beyond DC, GOP Officials See Trump on Glide Path to Reelection.”
Theory and Criticism
Samantha Rose Hill, “Walter Benjamin’s Last Work.”
Jennifer Wilson, “Gimmicks Might Be the Key to Understanding Capitalism.”
R. H. Lossin, “Neoliberalism for Polite Company: Bruno Latour’s Pseudo-Materialist Coup.”
Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto, eds., “Teaching Feminist Classics Now,” special issue, Feminist Formations.
Jorge Cotte, “Reimagining Networks: An Interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.”
Robert Minto, “Unpacking Wharton’s Library,” review of What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books, by Sheila Liming.
Joseph Slaughter, “Who Owns the Means of Expression?,” review of UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary, by Sarah Brouillette.
J. Daniel Elam and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, eds., “Introduction to 1990 at 30.”
Natalie Melas, “Out of Date: David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity and the Postmodern Condition.”
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, “The Nation We Knew: After Homi Bhabha’s ‘DissemiNation.'”
Joan Lubin, “Haircut Theory: Living with Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble.”
Rashid Khalidi, “The Worldly Exile.”
R. A. Judy, Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black (forthcoming Duke University Press, October 2020).
And Katherine Beaman, “Tweet Review: ‘Books Can’t Depict Time.”
Literature and Culture
Gloria Fisk, ed., “Reading Sally Rooney,” cluster, Post45.
Meghan O’Keefe, “HBO’s Watchmen Was ahead of Its Time—by 9 Months.”
Hilton Als, “Carolyn Forché’s Education in Looking.”
Parul Sehgal, “A Terrorist Attack Sparks the Plot of Megha Majumdar’s Powerful Debut Novel.”
Melanie Benson Taylor, “Katherine Anne Porter’s Pandemic.”
Poets & Writers, “Ten Questions for Anne Boyer” and “Ten Questions for Lauren Russell.”
Hua Hsu, “Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work.”
Charles Bernstein, “Legend: The Complete Facsimile in Context.”
Hazel Smith, “Pitching the Poem-essay: Subversive Argument in the Work of Charles Bernstein.”
Bernadette Mayer remembers Memory (1971).
And Dorian Lynskey, “‘Things Fall Apart’: The Apocalyptic Appeal of W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming.'”
Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
The Digital Review, “Digital Essayism.”
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars
“115 Farewell Dispatches to Dispatches, May, 2020.”
“Special Dispatch: Dispatches Archive to Be Housed at Simon Fraser University Library.”
George Quasha, “Pandemic Poetics, or Navigating the Shifting Forces of Social Gravity.”
Videogames
Phil Salvador, “When SimCity Got Serious: The Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery.”
Music
Josh Martin, “Bad//Dreems Share New David Foster Wallace-Inspired Single ‘Desert Television.’”
Humanities and Higher Education
Megan Zahneis, “Faculty Want a Say in Whether They Teach Face to Face. The Conversation Is Not Going Well.”
Ryan Boyd, “Zoom and Gloom: Universities in the Age of COVID-19.”
Simon Torracinta, “Extinction Event.”
Ben Lerner, “The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus.”
Rebecca Kolins Givan, “Will the University That Survives Have Been Worth Saving?”
Michael Bérubé, “Some Exigent Words about Financial Exigency.”
Honor Brabazon, “The Academy’s Neoliberal Response to COVID-19: Why Faculty Should Be Wary and How We Can Push Back.”
Harley Litzelman, “We Cannot Return to Campus This Fall.”
Chris Newfield, “Why Public Universities Can’t Take New Cuts: The Essential Charts.”
Audrey Williams June, “In Their Own Words: Here’s What Professors, Chairs, and Deans Learned from Remote Courses This Spring.”
Kirsten Ostherr, “Humanities as Essential Services.”
Anna E. Clark, “Twilight of the Mentors.”
Robert Kelchen, “Colleges Aren’t Reopening in the Fall.”
Michael Otsuka on small classes v. large lectures.
François Furstenberg, “University Leaders Are Failing.”
Chronicle Staff, “As Covid-19 Pummels Budgets, Colleges Are Resorting to Layoffs and Furloughs. Here’s the Latest.”
Ignacio Sánchez Prado, “Academe’s Shameful Neglect of Spanish.”
“Report of the MLA Task Force on Ethical Conduct in Graduate Education.”
Matt Zalaznick, “Colleges See Record Enrollment during COVID Summer.”
Laurence Steinberg, “Expecting Students to Play It Safe if Colleges Reopen Is a Fantasy.”
Pardis Dabashi, “Rise of the Absurdly Demanding Job Ad.”
And Tiffany C. Li, “A Note from Your University about Its Plans for Next Semester.”
Parenting
Adrienne Matei, “The Only Child: How Is Quarantine Affecting Kids without Siblings?”
Emily Oster, “Opening Schools Might Be Safer than You Think.”
Tucson
Carol Ann Alaimo, “Tucson Creates New Ordinance to Deter Aggressive ‘First Amendment Auditors.'”
Alana Minkler, “Arizona Wildfires: Evacuations Ordered for Bighorn Fire.”
Pittsburgh
WPXI, “Pittsburgh Public Schools Teachers, Administrators March in Peaceful Protest.”
Jordan Snowden, “Black Pittsburgh Authors You Should Know.”
Oneonta
Andy Pease, “From Carnegie Hall to 4’33”: Reflections on a Semester Gone Sideways.”
