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Sally Rooney on Biden’s war on Gaza; the Paris Review partners with the Bard Prison Initiative
... Writers Awards: Andrea Long Chu will receive the n+1 Writers’ Fellowship grant, and Siddhartha Deb will receive the Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize. ...
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Simon & Schuster has been sold; Isabella Hammad’s Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture
... School on the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Siddhartha Deb, one of the organizers of the event, said: “I mourn the loss of all civilian lives, Israeli and Palestinian, but I do so...
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All the President’s Women
... advisories be damned: “It was a political act.” In a recent Nation critique of White Noise, with its airborne toxic event, Siddhartha Deb wondered why “there is not a single reference to Bhopal or Union...
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This year’s MacArthur Fellows have been announced; Alex Shephard offers Nobel Prize speculations
... Battistoni, Siddhartha Deb, Adom Getachew, Sarah Jones, William P. Jones, Aziz Rana, Matthew Sitman, and Gabriel Winant. Tonight, via Zoom, McNally Jackson Books will host
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Anarchy in the UK
... punishment is ever truly what it seems. Siddhartha Deb is the author of The Beautiful and the Damned (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), a work of narrative nonfiction. ...
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"Bookends" writers on their best 2016 read; Ta-Nehisi Coates on Twitter
...nytimes.com/2016/12/21/books/review/whats-the-best-book-new-or-old-you-read-this-year.html?_r=0> they read in 2016. Siddhartha Deb calls Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian “unflinching in its portrayal of settler...
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Gates Foundation requires grant recipients to publish in open-access journals
... Bookforum published a conversation between Roy and Siddhartha Deb earlier this year. ...
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Many goodbyes to Maya Angelou
... certification by institutions of higher education and consequent stable employment, is more problematic than ever." The Baffler has reprinted author Siddhartha Deb's New School commencement speech. A new...
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The new n+1 website...
...://apexart.org/events/double-take-9.php> with Mike Heppner and Joseph McElroy; Wendy S. Walters and Siddhartha Deb; Catherine Texier and Minna Proctor; with each pair discussing a shared experience...
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Arundhati Roy with Siddhartha Deb
... which a few Indians have benefited and many, many more suffered. In late March, Roy read from the work to a sold-out hall at the New School. Afterward, she spoke to Siddhartha Deb about India...
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Go East, Young Man
... refreshingly unfiltered version of business-school, self-help wisdom, pronouncing that “becoming filthy rich requires a degree of unsqueamishness, whether in rising Asia or anywhere else.” Siddhartha Deb...
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Staff Picks: Brooklyn Book Festival
... of Empire. Leading Indian writers Pankaj Mishra (From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia) and Siddhartha Deb (The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India) read...
