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Eduardo Galeano: Not So Elementary, My Dear Watson

Eduardo Galeano Tomdispatch.com
The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature: From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said. Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).

Why the Stories Working People Tell Ourselves About Ourselves Matter

Maximillian Alvarez The Real News Network
“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don’t let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”

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Can the Ideal Society Ever Exist?

Steven Poole The Guardian
This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin.

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Whose Future Is It Anyway?

Jess Maginity Los Angeles Review of Books
This book discusses the effort by the alt-right and fascist movements to claim the genres science fiction and speculative literature as their own.

Viet Thanh Nguyen Broke a BDS Rule. Now He Is Its Vocal Advocate.

Edo Konrad and Alaa Salama +972 Magazine
The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Israeli and U.S. propaganda, and why cultural figures must take a public stance on Palestinian rights.
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