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Abstract: dictionary, n. [c. 1480–] 1.a. A book which explains or translates, usually in alphabetical order, the words of a language or languages (or of a particular category of vocabulary), giving for each word its typical spelling, an explanation of its meaning or meanings, and often other information, such as pronunciation, etymology, synonyms, equivalents in other languages, and illustrative examples. Also (from the late 20th cent.): an electronic resource performing this function. Cf. lexicon n., wordbook n.last dictionary, n. [2024–] The last book that explained or translated, usually in alphabetical order, the words of a language or languages (or of a particular category of vocabulary), and gave for each word its ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Conspiracy theories have never been regarded with as much concern as now. Brexit, the Trump presidency and its violent ending with the storm on the Capitol, the COVID-19 pandemic, and, most recently, the Russian invasion of Ukraine have not only sparked a plethora of conspiracy theories in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world, ranging from absurd claims of child abuse by satanic elites as in the QAnon superconspiracy theory to more understandable anxieties about globalization and the future of national economies, as in conspiracist claims about a "Great Reset." What is more, they have also alerted the public and politicians, the media and academics, to the potentially harmful effects of conspiracy ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Conspiracy theories are more than theories of conspiracies. They are a problem. In a brilliant study published in 2019, Katharina Thalmann gives a detailed account of how they became one. The study weaves together two strands: the stigmatization of conspiracy theories in the postwar social sciences, and the development of conspiracy culture between the 1950s and the 1980s (reflected in the crystals of three formative events: the Red Scare, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the Watergate scandal).Conspiracy theories became a problem in the wake of the fear of a communist plot to conquer the United States. Communists, however, had no outward markers; they were hiding behind normal faces and to defend society ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What drives the visibility and the virality of conspiracy theories in the United States and elsewhere today, especially in the online world' In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of QAnon, and the storming of the Capitol, many writers—both academics and journalists—have addressed this question in a flood of books. Some have focused on the increasing political polarization and the lurch to right-wing populism. Others have argued that our innate psychological weakness is now being exploited by manipulators both domestic and foreign. Some have suggested that the rise of conspiracism is an inevitable consequence of the financial incentives, technological affordances, and the libertarian ethos of social media ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic brought on a mass of conspiracist speculations. It also brought massive speculations about conspiracism and research on the same. Clare Birchall and Peter Knight's Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 is a masterful analysis of all three strands. A slim volume at two hundred pages, it manages to be encompassing, careful, nuanced, and sharply analytical.The book includes an introduction, seven chapters, and a conclusion. The first chapter, on the cultural and political contexts from which COVID conspiracy theories emerged, is follow by a chapter on the "infodemic." Chapters 3 and 4 trace various COVID conspiracy theories over the first year of the pandemic, and chapters 5–7 discuss the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Conspiracy theories are an exciting topic but often tedious to study. That is because conspiracy theorists usually go to great lengths to prove their claims. They analyze sources and secret communication, draw on eyewitness reports and make inferences, and are obsessed with details. In Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, Augustin Barruel blames the Freemasons and Illuminati for orchestrating the French Revolution and provides footnotes on each of its several hundred pages; David Ray Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, which claims that 9/11 was an "inside job" conducted by the US government, unfolds its argument in 250 pages, which are followed by 80 pages of notes. The first text was published in ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There is something profoundly unsettling about reading the fourth book on Russian conspiracy theories to come out in English over the course of four years. Not because the book in question, Scott Radnitz's Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region, is unsettling, though it is—it is about conspiracy theories, how can it not be' And certainly not because of any disappointment in the book itself, which is an excellent addition to this burgeoning field. No, what is unsettling is the recognition that conspiracy is not merely having a moment: conspiracy has swallowed up the first two decades of Russia's political discourse, with no end in sight.As the author of the second of these ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At the height of the government-endorsed anti-Soros campaign in Hungary in 2017, prominent Fidesz party members and loyalists were touring the country to hold elaborate campaign presentations about the nefarious "Soros plan" at local forums. At one of these events, Katalin Novák (former—and ungracefully fallen—president of Hungary) cited a saying of László Kövér (Speaker of the National Assembly), arguing that "in Hungary, and generally in Central Europe, the key to survival is the belief in conspiracy theories." Indeed, the propagation of conspiracy theories by political and cultural elites, as well as the circulation of such popular suspicions, has deep historical roots in the post-socialist region of (Central) ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Countries at war, the death of a prosecutor on the eve of his testimony before Congress, and the massacre of thousands of citizens targeted as "internal enemies" are some of the events, quite distant in time and space, that come under scrutiny in Luis Roniger and Leonardo Senkman's book. What they all have in common are conspiracy theories that attempt to either a posteriori make sense of often large-scale events (such as the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, allegedly motivated by the competition between two foreign oil companies who wanted control of the Chaco region) or a priori convince of the imminent threat a given "enemy" is posing to society at large (as was largely believed to be the case for citizens of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Reading research reviews on conspiracy theories or following experts on television talking about them, it is noticeable that historians are in the minority. Furthermore, the phenomenon of conspiracy theories is often reduced to contemporary issues such as the impact of social media and the dangers to democracy. However, the study of historical conspiracy theories can help to understand these current concerns better.The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an essential text of Western conspiracy thinking and is considered one of the most important antisemitic publications of all time. Norman Cohn, the author of an influential book on the Protocols, called them a Warrant for Genocide (1967). To this day, researchers ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In July 2021, President Joe Biden stated that by hindering immunization campaigns individuals and social media spreading disinformation were "killing people." To address these and other similar concerns about the ways in which conspiracy theories have been weaponized not only in the United States but also in other parts of the Western world, a strong body of literature has been published in the last few years.Much of this scholarship follows in the footsteps of Theodor W. Adorno and Karl Popper, who studied the topic because they were concerned that conspiracy theories were dangerous for democracy and for the peaceful coexistence of societies. An even more important scholar in the American context is Richard ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 2001, Red Dragonfly Press published my book Buddha Weeping in Winter. This collection was an outgrowth of my interest in Buddhism. I am not a Buddhist, but perhaps I am a Buddhist at heart. What motivates and guides me is not a doctrine or sacred text but a way of looking at the world, a way of acknowledging life in living things, a way of knowing that everything begins with a way of questioning. Poets are not philosophers, but their troubling minds often struggle to translate beauty into words. Where does such beauty come from' How does one know that what one sees is real' And after turning away from beauty, how does one embrace the waves of ugliness in the world' How does one look beyond the horizon and the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: All right, you never heard of this one. And I don't blame you. It's called Callipædia, or the Art of Getting Beautiful Children ("Getting" as in begetting.)Originally written in Latin by a French doctor, Claude Quillet, and published in 1655. Translated into English many times, I'm told. It had a certain popularity, I'm told. But today' Utterly forgotten.Only reason I know about it is 'cuz of Nicholas Rowe. He's fairly forgotten as well, but he was a big deal, three hundred years ago. Poet Laureate of Great Britain. Author of several plays that held the stage for years after his death. Translator of Lucan's Pharsalia, Bruyère's Characters, Boileau's Lutrin. Writer of the first biography of Shakespeare. Important ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Prize for the Fire is set during the reign of King Henry VIII. The climactic scene of the novel, the burning of condemned reformist heretic Anne Askew, occurs in 1546, one year before Henry's death. In this historical fiction, Rilla Askew faces the artistic challenge of avoiding exposition when authentically embodying multiple historical personalities and information, while also bringing her imaginative characters and scenes realistically into that history. The complexity of the history surrounding Henry's reign could easily provide readers with an indecipherable maze were it rendered by a less skilled author. Moreover, the distance between contemporary readers and the mid-sixteenth century also presents a serious ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Writing is both will and receptivity, design and chance, an assertion of the self and submission to a greater rhythm of language and of being. Rebecca Goodman's novel Forgotten Night emphasizes receptivity, even malleability, and an openness to these larger rhythms, even as its narrator, Jewish and self-estranged, seeks out precise answers to a personal question. The book follows her peregrinations through Alsatian French villages in search of hints about her grandfather's experiences there as a soldier during World War I, as well as in thrall to her Jewish ancestry amid antisemites of various epochs, from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust. Unlike Patrick Modiano in Dora Bruder, in which the first-person narrator ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Deeply embedded in the American consciousness are at least two stories that allegedly capture the essence of Black life in the twentieth, and now the twenty-first, century. One is not set down in letters, or even sung, like the other; but it is one that has played out with alarming frequency on the impromptu theaters of America's streets, parks, and college campuses. It has no single name, although locations, such as Ferguson, Missouri; and the names of the protagonists, such as George Floyd and Sandra Bland, come to stand for these situations. The other is Porgy & Bess, the George and Ira Gershwin opera of Black poverty, violence, drug use, and murder. Revolutionary in its time—1935—for its all-Black, classically ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Fiction structured around a society grappling with some kind of dystopian challenge—a climate catastrophe, an economic meltdown, the breakdown of democracy, a renegade virus, propaganda overload, individual freedom quashed or curtailed—generally contains chilling scenes, strikingly nefarious characters, and plot development based on day-to-day survival and shrouded in impending doom and calamity. Writers concoct these bizarre tales with the intention of forecasting what awaits mankind should society continue with war, oppression, widespread disruption to the environment, and other large-scale affronts to the common good and a normal way of life.The world described in Water Memory touches upon some of the maladies ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The emergence of the global pandemic and ongoing COVID-19 crisis has fostered a profound and personal awareness of space and place, such that one's apprehension of one's place in space is perhaps all the more real than it may have seemed a year or two earlier. That is, everyday life under the effects of COVID-19 has become marked with a sense of place, as thousands or millions of individual subjects found themselves facing stay-at-home orders, lockdowns, quarantines, curfews, closures, travel restrictions, and the now ubiquitous concept of social distancing, a phrase that quite literally draws our attention to one's "place" relative to that of others, right down to maintaining a space of six feet between ourselves ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In his poem "Belderg," Seamus Heaney converses with a man from Ireland's County Mayo. Plowing his fields, the Mayo farmer unearths fragments of old millstones—so old as to date from the times when the Vikings came to Ireland. "They just kept turning up / And were thought of as foreign," says the man. Foreign they aren't, however: the soils of Ireland are cluttered with the relics and shards of newcomers—sometimes invaders—who began as foreigners to the island and then turned native. The talk turns to language: it too is a soil, deep with sediment, strewn with the broken stubs of putatively foreign words, but words that have nevertheless long since been added to the languages Ireland considers native and hence the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Reading Dionne Brand is like waking from a dream of a long conversation to find that the conversation—or is it the dream'—continues in waking life and cannot be shaken off. Brand has received every major award for Canadian literature, and this new collection has already been dubbed "a monumental publication from one of this country's most important poets" by the Toronto Star. She is one of a small, albeit global, benighted cohort of what might be called "most celebrated, least known" writers, especially revered by other writers, about whom most American readers remain oblivious or uninformed until a Nobel Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, or like announcement flashes across a screen. Her thirty-five books and films ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The past interacts a great deal with the present in Ellen Lytle's poetry collection marvel (the word). A New York City poet now living in the Hudson Valley, Lytle writes in fractured lines that eschew transitions. In lowercase and often in the present tense, she narrates quotidian activities such as cleaning and making a salad. These activities might also include a visit to the cardiologist, where she observes her heart on a screen. Even as her mitral valve leaks "octopus bluish ink, backwards into her chamber," Lytle considers "mayonnaise or // hummus / chop or cut onion, celery / or spinach," paying attention to serious medical issues and dinner alike. Her flat affect provides a counterpoint to the tragedies that ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: These words reflect Myra Shapiro's love affair with language and, more broadly, with the world.Her latest book of poems isn't a "collected poems" but rather a documentation of an arrival, a travelogue, guiding us through the stops and starts, the destinations reached, on a long, eventful life. It's her personal road map: ancestral precedents, a multitude of pivotal points, transformative events, and emotional milestones that culminate from forks in the road, those taken and not taken, decisions delayed, the triumphant realization of dreams along the way, abundant rewards and inevitable losses—in other words, life.Shapiro's life is woven of many lives, one thread leading to and joining another until a unified ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 2017, Lost Horse Press established a dual-language series of poetry by important contemporary Ukrainian poets. The Country Where Everyone's Name Is Fear, by Boris and Ludmila Khersonsky, edited by Katie Ferris and Ilya Kaminsky, is the ninth volume in this series. These poems remind us of the role of the poet during times of war, in the particular context of the Ukrainian struggle for independence.The reader will remember that the Russo-Ukrainian War is now more than a decade old, having begun after the Revolution of Dignity (February 2014), which ousted the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and overthrew the Ukrainian government, and was immediately followed by the Russian annexation of the Crimea. During ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1980, in his book In the Sweetness of the New Time, Henry Weinfield published "Xerxes," a poem of heroic grandeur in which he incorrectly quotes a line from one of Edward Lear's nonsense alphabet books. Accompanied by an illustration of an angry-looking little king with an arrow raised in one hand and a scimitar in the other, Lear's poem correctly reads:Understandably, considering the regal ferocity of Lear's drawing, the young poet misquoted Lear's first line as "X is for Xerxes, / the mad king." Acknowledging his error a half century later, Weinfield nevertheless uses the misquotation as the epigraph to his highly enjoyable new book of poems, An Alphabet, suggesting the personal evolution of poetic creativity ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The poet laureate of Alexandria, Virginia (2022–25), Zeina Azzam is a writer, editor, and community activist. She is the author of the poetry collections Some Things Never Leave You (2023) and Bayna Bayna, In-Between (2021). Currently, she is one of the Virginia-based poets contributing to an anthology for the conservation project Writing the Land (writingtheland.org).Azzam's parents were Palestinian refugees were forced to flee to Syria in 1948 to escape the Arab-Israeli War. The family moved to Beirut when Azzam was a baby, then immigrated to the US in 1966 when she was ten. Staying at first with her grandparents in a small farming town in Iowa, she spent her teenage years in Delmar, a suburb outside Albany, New ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: During the mid-1960s and even a bit earlier, developments in American and European criticism and theory paved the way for the major subject matters of contemporary theory, which your recent book, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview [2023], presents a history of. Such developments as postmodernism/modernism—from Robert Venturi in 1964's Learning from Las Vegas and Nathan Scott's work in literature and religious studies in the late 1960s—and structuralism/existentialism debates, the return of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, and Marx to prominence in intellectual discussions on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as Lévi-Strauss's fortuitous discovery of de Saussure's notebooks on linguistics. How do ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Glitch Poetics, Nathan Allen Jones extends the already extended meaning of the term "glitch," at once a technical error and a ubiquitous expressive art technique that in many ways has come to define a digital aesthetic. Jones presents glitch as a contemporary literary strategy that seeks to model and critique what it is like to live inside a global 24/7 technical infrastructure. The term was first used in 1962 by astronaut John Glenn in reference to an electrical surge on a space expedition and has since come to mean the result or outcome of a breakdown in any technical system. Glitch as a digital art aesthetic is an appreciation and celebration of such outcomes, when a computer's deterministic system gives way ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Warning: There may be passages in this book (and in this review) that some readers will find offensive. However, I do not consider this problematic. I think it is healthy to confront opinions and attitudes different from ours, because it may encourage us to examine our own views more closely and perhaps even rethink them and modify them if necessary.But what kind of book is this' The subtitle proclaims its subject is "the Death and Rebirth of Comedy." Yet this volume is much more than that.Among other things, it is a sort of autobiography of a minority artist, a discussion of the goals and possibilities of comedy in general, a statement of some of the author's theories on the subject, a primer on becoming a ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, by Darsie Alexander and Sam Sackeroff, began as an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, and its first run was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. For those of us who were unable to view the exhibition in 2020 or during its second presentation (from August 2021 to January 2022), Alexander and Sackeroff's book provides a potential alternative by incorporating and cataloging large portions of the exhibit. The book consists of four essays, one each by the authors as well as contributions from Julia Voss and Mark Wasiuta, alongside numerous photos, reproductions of artworks, and smaller sections dealing with specific elements of the topic in more ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Anne Whitehouse's series on the women of surrealism provides a chronicle of the inner workings of three extraordinary women who emerged out of the surrealist art movement of the 1930s and 1940s. While surrealism sought to focus on the absurd, the fantastic, and the transhuman, the lives of Leonora Carrington, Lee Miller, and Frida Kahlo reflect the very real challenges of the human condition.Published by Ethel Zine and Micro Press, this exquisitely handcrafted book series, designed by Sara Lefsyk, is a collector's dream. Whitehouse's thought-provoking approach invites readers to delve into the personal struggles, triumphs, and contributions of these artists. In many ways, the exceptional lives of the three women ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The late Carol Novack and I conceived MadHat Press in 2010 as a print offshoot of the online journal Mad Hatters' Review (which had been going for nearly eight years prior). The first title we signed was by the poet, novelist, and anthropologist Hugh Fox, a few months before his passing. Unfortunately, neither Hugh nor Carol ever got to see any MadHat books in print. In a bizarre and tragic turn of events, Carol also died suddenly shortly after Christmas in Hendersonville, North Carolina. In the beginning, we were unsure whether we could continue.Some months later, the shock wave subsided. At the time I was living in Iceland, and it seemed a daunting task to work from the other side of the Atlantic with our authors ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Jeffrey T. Nealon's new book, Elegy for Literature, is a scathing critique of the profession of literary study. It lays out succinctly the post–World War II anatomy of its current status as a bitter joke in academe only a bit higher on the public totem pole of magazine status than Animal House–style fraternities. And that is the extent of the good news.Basically, due to a combination of economic mismanagement, thanks to the wholesale adoption of neoliberalism by administrators and state and federal governments over the last forty years (i.e., since Reagan), along with the self-destructive criticism directed by scholar-critics themselves against all professions under the banner of Foucauldian theory of modern ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Richard J. Bernstein lived a long, full, salutary life. He enjoyed a distinguished academic career as a beloved teacher, prolific author, adept administrator, gracious colleague, and tireless interlocutor. The knit of his pensive brow when listening deeply to whomever he was engaged in conversation was nearly as memorable as the spontaneity of his contextually calibrated smile, on occasion subtly wry, not infrequently unabashedly broad. The deep resonance of his remarkable voice was no less memorable. He delighted in nature and children seemingly as much as the rough-and-tumble of intense philosophical exchanges and the exacting work of a responsible interpreter of the most challenging texts (no one could make an ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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